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jablkoziemne

@BrodieOnLinux About turning phone into camera, at least on #android ( #android15 ), you can just connect your phone to the computer with the cable, and select internet camera on the connection type, and then at least with #V4L2 you can use the phone in the #OBS. I saw there is beta of #pipewire camera integration, but it didnt yet for me.

I suppose Christian uses #iphone and (after quick search) #ContinuityCamera, and after another search it seems to be only be integrating with the #apple ecosystem :/ so #droidcam seems to be required in this case

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aaron

I’ve published Part 3 of “I Want to Love Linux. It Doesn’t Love Me Back.”

This one’s about the so-called universal interface: the console. The raw, non-GUI, text-mode TTY. The place where sighted Linux users fall back when the desktop breaks, and where blind users are supposed to do the same. Except — we can’t. Not reliably. Not safely. Not without building the entire stack ourselves.

This post covers Speakup, BRLTTY, Fenrir, and the audio subsystem hell that makes screen reading in the console a game of chance. It dives into why session-locked audio breaks espeakup, why BRLTTY fails silently and eats USB ports, why the console can be a full environment — and why it’s still unusable out of the box. And yes, it calls out the fact that if you’re deafblind, and BRLTTY doesn’t start, you’re just locked out of the machine entirely. No speech. No visuals. Just a dead black box.

There are workarounds. Scripts. Hacks. Weird client.conf magic that you run once as root, once as a user, and pray to PipeWire that it sticks. Some of this I learned from a reader of post 1. None of it is documented. None of it is standard. And none of it should be required.

This is a long one. Technical, and very real. Because the console should be the one place Linux accessibility never breaks. And it’s the one place that’s been left to rot.

Link to the post: fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/i-w

fireborn.mataroa.blogI Want to Love Linux. It Doesn't Love Me Back: Post 3 – Speakup, BRLTTY, and the Forgotten Infrastructure of Console Access — fireborn
#Linux#Accessibility#BlindTech
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Jonathan Kamens 86 47

#Linux / #pipewire annoyance; maybe you've seen this and know how to fix it?
Using the GNOME volume slider, I mute the volume of my motherboard's built-in audio device.
When I then I unplug the DisplayLink hub that is plugged into my computer, pipewire (or #GNOME, or ???) unmutes the built-in audio device. I don't want that!
Until recently it stayed muted as intended. Maybe it broke in pipewire 1.4.2, released to #Debian testing in mid-April?

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Phosh

#Phosh's #MobileSettings app now allows to select and disable the overview wallpaper so there's no need reach for the command line when you want the classic black back.

The apps feedback panel allows to adjust role based volumes in case #PipeWire's role base routing is in effect. This is picked up automatically when you enable role based routing.

3/x

A screenshot of the mobile settings app showing the feedback panel. There are separate volume sliders for media, alarm, notification, ringtones and emergency alerts.
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Stuart Longland (VK4MSL)

I'm now set. I have the Toughpad sitting in its dock, USB television dongle plugged in… ABC News 24 running.

For sound, I ran:
`pactl load-module module-native-protocol-tcp port=<port> listen=<desktop_ip>`
on my desktop connected to the stereo, and:
`pactl load-module module-tunnel-sink server=tcp:<desktop_ip>:<port>` on the Toughpad.

I was then able to direct the sound from Kaffeine to the new audio sink that appeared. Latency and lip-sync is pretty good.

I'll have to keep this trick in mind for when I'm wanting to watch movies with decent sound.

#AusPol#Pipewire
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Chris Vogel

@praveen@social.masto.host @dos@librem.one @kannan@aana.site

I tried this solution (after testing the first time the echo in #trixie using #pipewire - it really is awfull 🙊) and found the speaker and headset working when using paplay.

The echo on calls is gone also - like any audio during calls is gone.

I do not remember how to fix the #audio during calls not working nor do I remember the place where I read about it. Help would be appreciated!

Best would be if someone would add echo-cancellation to #pipewire which is default in trixie. There's a slowly growing bounty on Open Collectives for that.

opencollective.comEcho cancellation with pipewire - Open Collective
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Pirate Praveen

I wanted to try #Mobian #Trixie on my #Librem5 again as I got a way to go back to #pulseaudio to as a work around to missing echo cancellation support in #pipewire (Thanks to @dos ). So I went ahead and ran the usual apt dis-upgrade way (in hindsight, may be gnome software was a better option). But I got locked out of the session as upgrade was progressing. So I had to force shut down and then use #JumpDrive to repair it from my laptop.

I documented it in #debian wiki
wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebi

wiki.debian.orgInstallingDebianOn/Purism/Librem5Phone - Debian Wiki
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Chris Vogel

Just donated to the effort to improve sound quality on the #Librem5 when using #pipewire: https://opencollective.com/dephcom/projects/pipewire-echo

I'd be even more happy about the approach of sponsoring development through the community if this donation would be accepted as being for an official non-profit organization accepted as such in Germany.

Giving for #OpenSource should be respected as a a benefit to the public and appreciated by the government by whatever means they do this for other purposes (in Germany it's possible to declare such donations for reducing taxes to pay).

Hey #MobileLinux community - if everybody gives a little there'll be a fair pay for someone doing this work.

opencollective.compipewire-echo - Open CollectiveAdd echo cancellation support to Librem 5 with pipewire (Mobian Trixie)
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Bardia

is it too late to join the #pipewire party? i hope not, or else my #flx1 will be sad

all applications that use pipewire can finally utilize the camera (adding to our list of v4l, qtmultimedia and android apps)

one issue we are facing is that aperture is not very happy with the back cameras, so applications like #GNOME snapshot or authenticator will have the preview flipped. captured frames are surprisingly not flipped tho:
gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/snapsho

#furios#furilabs#LinuxMobile
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Taffer 🇨🇦 :godot:

I've got a network speaker (a Denon Home 150) that speaks "AirPlay Remote", "AirTunes Remote", "Tidal Connect", "Spotify Connect", "HEOS Audio", and "Qobuz Connect" according to Avahi.

How can I play music on this from Linux?

My music player (Strawberry) doesn't list it or any of those protocols, and I can't set it as an audio device (which is probably a good thing).

#linux#arch#airplay
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