Mention a workaround for the PipeWire #63
Description
The readme states that PipeWire doesn't work without the patch, but there's another workaround.
Defining alsa sinks and sources manually allows you to use the PipeWire.
In pipewire.conf there's an example for source:
# This creates a single PCM source device for the given
# alsa device path hw:0. You can change source to sink
# to make a sink in the same way.
#{ factory = adapter
# args = {
# factory.name = api.alsa.pcm.source
# node.name = "alsa-source"
# node.description = "PCM Source"
# media.class = "Audio/Source"
# api.alsa.path = "hw:0"
# api.alsa.period-size = 1024
# api.alsa.headroom = 0
# api.alsa.disable-mmap = false
# api.alsa.disable-batch = false
# audio.format = "S16LE"
# audio.rate = 48000
# audio.channels = 2
# audio.position = "FL,FR"
# }
#}
So you can have a sink (and hence some sound) by adding a few lines beside it:
{ factory = adapter
args = {
factory.name = api.alsa.pcm.sink
node.name = "alsa-sink"
node.description = "PCM Sink"
media.class = "Audio/Sink"
api.alsa.path = "hw:0" # or whatever device number you have in your alsamixer
api.alsa.period-size = 1024
api.alsa.headroom = 0
api.alsa.disable-mmap = false
api.alsa.disable-batch = false
audio.format = "S16LE"
audio.rate = 48000
audio.channels = 2
audio.position = "FL,FR"
}
}
Unmuting the device every reboot is also a thing that is required. You can nicely do it in the same config just below in the context.exec section:
context.exec = [
# ...
{ path = "/usr/bin/amixer" args = "set -q -c 0 Master 100 unmute" }
]
Not the prettiest workaround, but I think it's worth mentioning.