On Fri, 9 Jul 2021 11:35:43 +0200 Dominique Michel wrote: > Le Fri, 9 Jul 2021 09:52:18 +0100, > John Murphy <rosegarde...@freeode.co.uk> a écrit : > > > On Fri, 9 Jul 2021 09:29:09 +0200 Dominique Michel wrote: > > > On linux, the audio devices can be acceded by only 1 user at a time. > > > Which imply, instead of being root for everything audio related, I > > > would login as an user member of the audio group and, instead of > > > using cron, make a custom user script. > > > > Thanks, but if Pipewire is going to prevent access to audio devices by > > cronjobs, either accidentally or by design, then I'll be removing it. > > That issue have nothing to do with pipewire, but with how the > kernel ALSA driver works. Which imply, instead of trying to workaround > normal kernel operations and user/group permissions, you must work with > them. It will be both much simpler and more reliable on the long run to > use a joe user member of the audio group, and instead of messing with > cron jobs which was never intended to be used to implement joe user > tasks, just make a joe user (bash-python-...) script that will implement > what you want to do.
I should have made clear from the start of this thread that I had been running a script via user cron, to do the recording, which had worked just fine (obviously not with pw-record) for months prior to installing Pipewire. It's certainly possible I did something wrong, or that I did something else around the same time to cause the problem. Which is why I've asked if it works for others. No one seems to want to answer definitively. I was just using pw-record for testing. I couldn't actually use it in my script as it doesn't have a -d (duration) option. -- Thanks again, John. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list Linux-audio-dev@lists.linuxaudio.org https://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
