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spa-acp-tool — Debug ALSA card profile probing without running PipeWire. More information: <https://docs.pipewire.o

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Problem

How to use the spa-acp-tool command: Debug ALSA card profile probing without running PipeWire. More information: <https://docs.pipewire.org/page_man_spa-acp-tool_1.html>.

Solution

spa-acp-tool — Debug ALSA card profile probing without running PipeWire. More information: <https://docs.pipewire.org/page_man_spa-acp-tool_1.html>.

List all ALSA objects:

spa-acp-tool {{[l|list]}}

Probe a specific ALSA card by ID:

spa-acp-tool {{[c|card]}} {{card_id}}

List available ALSA profiles for a card:

spa-acp-tool {{[lpr|list-profiles]}} {{card_id}}

Set the active ALSA profile by ID:

spa-acp-tool {{[spr|set-profile]}} {{profile_id}}

List available devices for a card:

spa-acp-tool {{[ld|list-devices]}} {{card_id}}

Get volume from a device:

spa-acp-tool {{[gv|get-volume]}} {{device_id}}

Set volume on a device:

spa-acp-tool {{[v|set-volume]}} {{device_id}} {{volume_level}}

Toggle mute state on a device:

spa-acp-tool {{[m|toggle-mute]}} {{device_id}}

Code Snippets

List all ALSA objects

spa-acp-tool {{[l|list]}}

Probe a specific ALSA card by ID

spa-acp-tool {{[c|card]}} {{card_id}}

List available ALSA profiles for a card

spa-acp-tool {{[lpr|list-profiles]}} {{card_id}}

Set the active ALSA profile by ID

spa-acp-tool {{[spr|set-profile]}} {{profile_id}}

List available devices for a card

spa-acp-tool {{[ld|list-devices]}} {{card_id}}

Context

tldr-pages: linux/spa-acp-tool

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