[SOLVED] Load pulseaudio module

Creating appropriate file in /storage/.config/pulse-daemon.conf.d/ doesn't work?

Hey there, dragging up an old thread incase it's helpful to others down the road, I spun my wheels quite a bit before I realised what the issue was.

Modules cannot be loaded in the /storage/.config/pulse-daemon.conf.d/ file. It is only used for changing pulse audio settings. Like the ones listed here

Pulseaudio [LibreELEC.wiki]

If you need to load a module, you must use /storage/.config/autostart.sh (Autostart.sh [LibreELEC.wiki])

In my case I simply added these lines for loading RTP multicast receiving on boot.

pactl load-module module-udev-detect
pactl load-module module-http-protocol-tcp
pactl load-module module-rtp-recv

I have some issue with this load-module in autostart.sh.

I have autostart.sh with:

pactl load-module module-udev-detect

but the ALSA source/sinks is not correctly loaded I think because ALSA is not still loaded, some idea to solve it?

One possible solution is sequencing activities on boot but I would like to find a leaner way...

The precise ordering that's possible with systemd *is* the leanest way. Anything else requires guessing (the timing) and hoping (that you guessed correctly). Note that startup scripts will often need "/path/to/pactl" not "pactl" in them.

It is possible to specify a custom PulseAudio startup script using the default-script-file config parameter. So another option without autostart.sh would be:

default-script-file = /storage/.config/pulse-daemon.conf.d/custom.pa

#!/usr/bin/pulseaudio -nF

.fail
.include /etc/pulse/default.pa

# extend default startup script
load-module module-rtp-recv latency_msec=250 sap_address=0.0.0.0

In RE: PulseAudio network sending (rock64) I described how I did it with a systemd unit file.