You could avoid restarting sndiod in most cases: There's a 'server.device' control exposed by sndioctl(1), to switch between devices with similar capabilities.
Ah, makes it much easier! Thanks! Dave David J. Raymond david.raym...@nmt.edu http://kestrel.nmt.edu/~raymond On Sat, Jul 26, 2025 at 11:09 PM Alexandre Ratchov <a...@caoua.org> wrote: > On Sat, Jul 26, 2025 at 04:29:23PM -0600, Raymond, David wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Thanks for the advice -- I do have a headphone set that works. However, > I > > needed to get something I could hear/speak from across the room in a zoom > > yoga class and to keep things as simple as possible, I got a little USB > > conference speaker/mike. After fussing a while I figured out that this > > could be activated by restarting sndiod with the argument -f rsnd/1 and > > going back to the internal speakers with -f rsnd/0. It works great! > > You could avoid restarting sndiod in most cases: There's a > 'server.device' control exposed by sndioctl(1), to switch between > devices with similar capabilities. >
