paswitch

CLI application to switch between PulseAudio sinks, as defined by the user with a friendly name.

Requirements

For this tool to function you must have the pacmd program installed on your (Linux) machine.

Optionally, you need libnotify (libnotify on Pacman for example) if you want notifications.

Installation

npm install -g paswitch

Configuration

The first time paswitch is called, it will create a configuration file (under $HOME/.config/paswitch/) along with the command you enter.

Before you can begin, you need to add some sink data.

Usage

Add/set sink

Syntax: paswitch set-sink <friendly-name> <sink-name>

Where <friendly-name> is the shorthand name you want to give to the sink, and <sink-name> is the name of the sink as seen in the command pacmd list-sinks | grep "name:" between the < and > characters.

Remove sink

Syntax: paswitch remove-sink <friendly-name>

Where <friendly-name> is the shorthand name you have given the sink earlier.

This will forget the sink.

Switch to a sink

Syntax: paswitch switch <friendly-name>

Where <friendly-name> is the shorthand name you have given the sink earlier.

This will switch to that sink as the default/unmuted one.

Toggle sinks

Syntax: paswitch toggle

This will set the next sink in the list as the default/unmuted one.

List sinks

Syntax: paswitch list

This will list all memorized sinks.

Start a wizard

Syntax: paswitch wizard <type>

This will start a wizard of the selected type, to easily manage sinks.

Options

-d, --default      -- Switches to the target sink by making it the default sink (defaults to this is no -d and -m flags are specified)
-m, --mute         -- Switches to the target sink by unmuting it and muting all other memorized sinks
-r, --relocate     -- Relocates existing application sink inputs to the new sink

Wizard types

add-sink           -- Shows an interactive list of connected sinks to select and add
remove-sink        -- Shows an interactive list of remembered sinks to forget

Note that you can combine --default and --mute options.