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redshoe

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Registered: 2015-12-16

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USB soundcard periodically reconnects or reboots while using Pipewire

Pipewire randomly reboots my USB soundcard. Is this expected behavior? I read somewhere wireplumber is responsible for connecting new streams. Could this be the culprit?

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

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Re: USB soundcard periodically reconnects or reboots while using Pipewire

In what way does "reboots" show itself/negatively impact you? What generally happens is that a sound card is suspended after a while of no audio, so it can be properly reconfigured/power saved when a new audio stream starts. If your USB card has a problem with this, you can disable this suspension logic from happening for it, see https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/WirePl … e_property for how to configure a device and https://pipewire.pages.freedesktop.org/ … onds,-This for the property you'll want to set. (if your browser doesn't support text links, it's the "session-suspend-timeout-seconds" key you need to set to 0