pipewire compatibility

I’m not sure if this is related to other problems people were seeing, but I was trying to make lyrebird work on Pop-os (ubuntu based distro). I ran into the problem of not seeing the lyrebird output as an option in pavucontrol, and getting the error message:

No PulseAudio daemon running, or not running as session daemon.

I think that is because Pop-os as some other distros switched to using pipewire instead of pulseaudio, so pacmd is not fully supported. When I tried to run

pacmd load-module module-null-sink sink_name=Lyrebird-Output

I got the same error as above. However, I found this page (https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/-/wikis/Migrate-PulseAudio#module-null-sink) to find the equivalent command in pipewire to be:

pw-cli create-node adapter factory.name=support.null-audio-sink media.class="Audio/Sink" object.linger=1 monitor.channel-volumes=1 node.name=Lyrebird-Output

Running this while lyrebird is running seems to solve my issue as it creates that sink names Lyrebird-Output. I’m not sure how hard it would be to implement this change in lyrebird, but I thought I’d share this as a hacky workaround and a potential starting point for a future pipewire integration.

[linuxgnuru]

yeah, most distros now use pipewire so this will need to be rewritten

[Steccah]

and you have to comment in ./install.sh the part that checks python version if you have python 3.10