Ability to change sinks volumes from CLI on runtime

[valoun]

Hi,

I haven't found a way to change volume from command-line (in a non-interactive way) for sinks. I need it to be able to attach volume scripts to my notebook buttons.

"pulseaudio -nF" with commands fails with error:

E: pid.c: Daemon already running. E: main.c: pa_pid_file_create() failed.

Other programs like pactl, pavucontrol, paprefs etc. get no commandline options at all or do not offer the needed functions.

So is there a way that I haven't found? Basically what I need is to issue commands like those offered with amixer i.e. volume up (with unmute), volume down, volume up by %, volume down by %, mute, unmute, toggle mute etc.

Right now, I can only control PCM with amixer through pulse.

[valoun]

added myself to CC

[lennart]

You can script pacmd that way a bit. But yes, a new pactl command for this might make sense.

[lennart]

#191 has another request for a new pactl command.

[lennart]

PA in git now has a pactl command that knows set-sink-volume and similar commands.