[Blink] Select device on linux pulseaudio

[Adrian Gibanel]

That was exactly what I needed to know. That blink was an alsa only program. And that pulseaudio could somehow export its devices as alsa devices.
Thank you Dan Pascu !

Finally I managed to integrate it seamlessly into Pulseaudio and I wrote a howto about how I did it:

https://adrian15sgd.wordpress.com/2017/11/29/blink-sip-client-pulseaudio-setup/

Feedback in case some of my explanations are incorrect is welcome.

----- Mensaje original -----
> De: "Dan Pascu" <dan at ag-projects.com>
> Para: "blink" <blink at lists.ag-projects.com>
> Enviados: Martes, 28 de Noviembre 2017 13:17:41
> Asunto: Re: [Blink] Select device on linux pulseaudio

> Blink is an alsa only software and as such it can only see alsa devices. The
> reason you see that generic pulseaudio device is because pulseaudio exports its
> main device into alsa, making it available as an alsa device. If you want to
> see specific pulseaudio devices you need to configure pulseaudio to export them
> as alsa devices (if possible at all).

> In short, if you cannot see it with

> aplay -l | grep card

> then you cannot use it.

> On 24 Nov 2017, at 12:52, Adrian Gibanel wrote:

> > Hello,

> > I am using: Blink 3.0.3 on Debian 9 Stretch.

>> I used sflphone previously and Blink it's much better because audio is heard ok
> > and without problems.

> > So thank you!


>> 1) My current problem or request for enhacement is being able to select
> > pulseaudio device in audio settings.

> > I go to: Blink. Preferences. Audio and for each one of the:

> > * Input Device
> > * Output Device
> > * Alert Device

> > I've got these dropdown options:

> > * System Default
> > * Playback/recording through the PulseAudio sound server
> > * USB PnP Sound Device, USB Audio
> > * USB PnP Sound Device, Digital (S/PDIF)
> > * HDA Intel PCH, ALC662 rev3 Analog
> > * None

>> 2) I would like to either be able to choose between an Alsa device or a
> > Pulseaudio device:

> > * System Default
> > * CM108 (pulse)
> > * Audio Interno (pulse)
> > * USB PnP Sound Device, USB Audio (alsa)
> > * USB PnP Sound Device, Digital (S/PDIF) (alsa)
> > * HDA Intel PCH, ALC662 rev3 Analog (alsa)
> > * None

>> Or... just being able to switch between Alsa and Pulseaudio systems where when
> > Pulseaudio is choosen to show my Pulseaudio devices which they are:

> > * CM108
> > * Audio Interno

>> 3) Not being able to select an specific device with pulse is a problem to me
> > because I want my Alert device to be different than the Input Device.
>> Currently I am using the HDA Intel Device as the Alert Device. This is not
>> working always because sometimes the pulseaudio control takes control of it and
> > then,...
>> blink as being an alsa client... it's not able to interact with it
>> simultaneously (as it would happen without any problem with the pulseaudio
> > system).

>> 4) I think I'm going to explore the workaround of blacklisting the "HDA Intel
>> PCH" device on pulseaudio configuration so that it's never used but a proper
> > fix from blink is welcome.

>> 5) I'm quite an expert GNU/Linux user and I'm willing to build development
>> versions of Blink and test them (although nightly builds would be easier to
> > test of course).



> > Thank you for any related feedback you can give me.

> > --
> > Adrián Gibanel

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