Volume control for System Speaker and playSound

[Andrew_Rowe]

This is a topic very near and dear to my soul.

@dickrp

There must be other people who want to have the computer talk and make sound in response to sensed events.

yes… YES!!!
I personally think this is a very good way of getting my attention.

Here is a thread about getting the pulse audio to work, and it does finally work on my setup. I can control the volume on my host system (Mint on desktop PC)

Pulse Audio binding

Stupid question… Does anyone use the Pulse Audio binding? Can someone help me get it working in OpenHAB? Platform desktop pc running Deb 9 A forum seach for ‘pulseaudio’ returns 33 threads, I’ve read all 33 from the :pulseaudio add-ons doc You need a running pulseaudio server whith module module-cli-protocol-tcp loaded and accessible by the server which runs your openHAB instance. running pactl list sinks short yeilds a list with my audio sinks so I’m guessing module-cli-protocol-tcp is…

here is another thread with some more sound related problems discussed

playSound stops working

Odd problem with playSound sometimes not working. System is configured to use system default sound. playSound works for days and then occasionally just quits working. I’ll notice it isn’t working and go into Paper UI --> configure —> system —> audio and switch from system default to web audio and it immediately work (if a web browser is open) Then I’ll go back and switch it back from web audio to system default and as soon I click the save button to confirm the change, all the sounds that were s…