[LAD] Simple Pipewire test request

[Dominique Michel]

Le Thu, 8 Jul 2021 19:12:29 -0700,
Fernando Lopez-Lezcano <nando at ccrma.Stanford.EDU> a écrit :


> >> It could also be that running things from cron does not establish a
> >> "session" and then you do not have access permission to audio
> >> devices and such (and dbus, as suggested elsewhere in the thread).
> >>  
> > 
> > It's a long time since I've used root for anything, but I think it
> > would still have the required permissions to do anything. I begin to
> > wonder if this is by design, but I still don't know if it works for
> > anyone else.

On linux, the audio devices can be acceded by only 1 user at a time.
Which imply, instead of being root for everything audio related, I would
login as an user member of the audio group and, instead of using cron,
make a custom user script.