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pulse-cli-syntax(5) File Formats Manual pulse-cli-syntax(5) NAME pulse-cli-syntax - PulseAudio Command Line Interface Syntax SYNOPSIS ~/.config/pulse/default.pa /usr/local/etc/pulse/default.pa /usr/local/etc/pulse/system.pa DESCRIPTION PulseAudio provides a simple command line language used by configura- tion scripts, the pacmd interactive shell, and the modules module-cli and module-cli-protocol-{unix,tcp}. Empty lines and lines beginning with a hashmark (#) are silently ignored. Several commands are sup- ported. Note that any boolean arguments can be given positively as '1', 't', 'y', 'true', 'yes' or 'on'. Likewise, negative values can be given as '0', 'f', 'n', 'false', 'no' or 'off'. Case is ignored. GENERAL COMMANDS help Show a quick help on the commands available. STATUS COMMANDS list-modules Show all currently loaded modules with their arguments. list-cards Show all currently registered cards list-sinks or list-sources Show all currently registered sinks (resp. sources). list-clients Show all currently active clients. list-sink-inputs or list-source-outputs Show all currently active inputs to sinks a.k.a. playback streams (resp. outputs of sources a.k.a. recording streams). stat Show some simple statistics about the allocated memory blocks and the space used by them. info or ls or list A combination of all status commands described above (all three commands are synonyms). MODULE MANAGEMENT load-module name [arguments...] Load a module specified by its name and arguments. For most mod- ules it is OK to be loaded more than once. unload-module index|name Unload a module, specified either by its index in the module list or its name. describe-module name Give information about a module specified by its name. VOLUME COMMANDS set-sink-volume|set-source-volume index|name volume Set the volume of the specified sink (resp. source). You may specify the sink (resp. source) either by its index in the sink/source list or by its name. The volume should be an integer value greater or equal than 0 (muted). Volume 65536 (0x10000) is 'normal' volume a.k.a. 100%. Values greater than this amplify the audio signal (with clipping). set-sink-mute|set-source-mute index|name boolean Mute or unmute the specified sink (resp. source). You may spec- ify the sink (resp. source) either by its index or by its name. The mute value is either 0 (not muted) or 1 (muted). set-sink-input-volume|set-source-output-volume index volume Set the volume of a sink input (resp. source output) specified by its index. The same volume rules apply as with set-sink-vol- ume. set-sink-input-mute|set-source-output-mute index boolean Mute or unmute a sink input (resp. source output) specified by its index. The same mute rules apply as with set-sink-mute. CONFIGURATION COMMANDS set-default-sink|set-default-source index|name Make a sink (resp. source) the default. You may specify the sink (resp. source) by its index in the sink (resp. source) list or by its name. Use the special name @NONE@ to unset the user de- fined default sink or source. In this case, pulseaudio will re- turn to the default sink or source selection based on priority. Note that defaults may be overridden by various policy modules or by specific stream configurations. set-card-profile index|name profile-name Change the profile of a card. set-sink-port|set-source-port index|name port-name Change the profile of a sink (resp. source). set-port-latency-offset card-index|card-name port-name offset Change the latency offset of a port belonging to the specified card suspend-sink|suspend-source name|index true|false Suspend or resume the specified sink or source (which may be specified either by its name or index), depending whether true (suspend) or false (resume) is passed as last argument. Suspend- ing a sink will pause all playback and suspending a source will pause all capturing. Depending on the module implementing the sink or source this might have the effect that the underlying device is closed, making it available for other applications to use. The exact behaviour depends on the module. suspend boolean Suspend all sinks and sources. MOVING STREAMS move-sink-input|move-source-output index sink-index|sink-name Move sink input (resp. source output) to another sink (resp. source). PROPERTY LISTS update-sink-proplist|update-source-proplist index|name properties Update the properties of a sink (resp. source) specified by name or index. The property is specified as e.g. device.descrip- tion="My Preferred Name" update-sink-input-proplist|update-source-output-proplist index proper- ties Update the properties of a sink input (resp. source output) specified by index. The properties are specified as above. SAMPLE CACHE list-samples Lists the contents of the sample cache. play-sample name sink-index|sink-name Play a sample cache entry to a sink. remove-sample name Remove an entry from the sample cache. load-sample name filename Load an audio file to the sample cache. load-sample-lazy name filename Create a new entry in the sample cache, but don't load the sam- ple immediately. The sample is loaded only when it is first used. After a certain idle time it is freed again. load-sample-dir-lazy path Load all entries in the specified directory into the sample cache as lazy entries. A shell globbing expression (e.g. *.wav) may be appended to the path of the directory to add. KILLING CLIENTS/STREAMS kill-client index Remove a client forcibly from the server. There is no protection against the client reconnecting immediately. kill-sink-input|kill-source-output index Remove a sink input (resp. source output) forcibly from the server. This will not remove the owning client or any other streams opened by the same client from the server. LOG COMMANDS set-log-level numeric-level Change the log level. set-log-meta boolean Show source code location in log messages. set-log-target target Change the log target (null, auto, journal, syslog, stderr, file:PATH, newfile:PATH). set-log-time boolean Show timestamps in log messages. set-log-backtrace num-frames Show backtrace in log messages. MISCELLANEOUS COMMANDS play-file filename sink-index|sink-name Play an audio file to a sink. dump Dump the daemon's current configuration in CLI commands. dump-volumes Debug: Shows the current state of all volumes. shared Debug: Show shared properties. send-message recipient message message_parameters Send a message to the specified recipient object. If applicable an additional string containing message parameters can be speci- fied. A string is returned as a response to the message. For available messages see https://cgit.freedesktop.org/pulseau- dio/pulseaudio/tree/doc/messaging_api.txt. exit Terminate the daemon. If you want to terminate a CLI connection ("log out") you might want to use ctrl+d META COMMANDS In addition to the commands described above there are a few meta direc- tives supported by the command line interpreter. .include filename|folder Executes the commands from the specified script file or in all of the *.pa files within the folder. .fail and .nofail Enable (resp. disable) that following failing commands will can- cel the execution of the current script file. This is ignored when used on the interactive command line. .ifexists filename Execute the subsequent block of commands only if the specified file exists. Typically filename indicates a module. Relative paths are resolved using the module directory as the base. By using an absolute path, the existence of other files can be checked as well. .else and .endif A block of commands is delimited by an .else or .endif meta com- mand. Nesting conditional commands is not supported. AUTHORS The PulseAudio Developers <pulseaudio-discuss (at) lists (dot) freedesktop (dot) org>; PulseAudio is available from http://pulseau- dio.org/ SEE ALSO default.pa(5), pacmd(1), pulseaudio(1) Manuals User pulse-cli-syntax(5)
NAME | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | GENERAL COMMANDS | STATUS COMMANDS | MODULE MANAGEMENT | VOLUME COMMANDS | CONFIGURATION COMMANDS | MOVING STREAMS | PROPERTY LISTS | SAMPLE CACHE | KILLING CLIENTS/STREAMS | LOG COMMANDS | MISCELLANEOUS COMMANDS | META COMMANDS | AUTHORS | SEE ALSO
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