spa-acp-tool(1) General Commands Manual spa-acp-tool(1)
NAME
spa-acp-tool - The PipeWire ALSA profile debugging utility
SYNOPSIS
spa-acp-tool [OPTIONS] [COMMAND]
DESCRIPTION
Debug tool for exercising the ALSA card profile probing code, without
running PipeWire.
May be used to debug problems where PipeWire has incorrectly functioning
ALSA card profiles.
OPTIONS
-h | --help
Show help
-v | --verbose
Increase verbosity by one level
-c NUMBER | --card NUMBER
Select which card to probe
-p | --properties
Additional properties to pass to ACP, e.g. key=value ....
COMMANDS
help | h
Show available commands
quit | q
Quit
card ID | c ID
Probe card
info | i
List card info
list | l
List all objects
list-verbose | lv
List all data
list-profiles [ID] | lpr [ID]
List profiles
set-profile ID | spr ID
Activate a profile
list-ports [ID] | lp [ID]
List ports
set-port ID | sp ID
Activate a port
list-devices [ID] | ld [ID]
List available devices
get-volume ID | gv ID
Get volume from device
set-volume ID VOL | v ID VOL
Set volume on device
inc-volume ID | v+ ID
Increase volume on device
dec-volume ID | v- ID
Decrease volume on device
get-mute ID | gm ID
Get mute state from device
set-mute ID VAL | sm ID VAL
Set mute on device
toggle-mute ID | m ID
Toggle mute on device
AUTHORS
The PipeWire Developers
<https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/issues>; PipeWire is
available from <https://pipewire.org>
SEE ALSO
pipewire(1)
PipeWire 1.4.2 spa-acp-tool(1)
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