Mute inputs

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Mute inputs

teeffelen opened this issue 5 years ago · comments

Lex van Teeffelen commented 5 years ago

How does one mute the microphone?

If it's set using the --toggle-mute ID, how do I discover which ID the mic has?

I am able to mute the mic with the interactive interface, but I'd like to create a key bind to mute it.

GeorgeFilipkin · Answer 1 · Sat Mar 16 2019 17:00:01 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

pulsemixer -l shows the list with ids, then you take that id and do pulsemixer --id n --toggle-mute

I've just remembered now that PulseAudio doesn't use unique IDs and sometimes they can overlap, i.e. sink (output) and source (input) streams can have the same id and in that case priority goes to sink which results in inability to select source with --id. Yeah... I've been meaning to fix that.

GeorgeFilipkin · Answer 2 · Sun Mar 24 2019 23:49:38 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Alright, I don't know if this ID overlapping problem was relevant to you but I've changed IDs a bit to prevent this from happening. There are also now CLI examples in the README.

Rohan Jain · Answer 3 · Fri Sep 17 2021 18:44:44 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

I was able to use this to get pulsemixer to toggle the default mic:

pulsemixer` --toggle-mute --id $(pulsemixer --list-sources | grep Default | grep -Po "\d+" | head -1)