How Configure Guix to use Pipewire

How Configure Guix to use Pipewire

[Antwane Mason]

Does anyone have any links they could point me to for adjusting my system
configuration to support using pipewire? I am interested in using it in
order to get better support for using my bluetooth headphones than with the
default audio. Particularly, I would like to be able to use my headphones
for both output and input.

Any help or pointers would be greatly appreciated!

Regards,
Antwane

Re: How Configure Guix to use Pipewire

[Brendan Tildesley]

A Pipewire service hasn't been added yet. I started working on one
a while ago but haven't got around to finishing it.
Pipewire is a user service, so if you disable pulseaudio and run
Pipewire from a terminal you may be able to get it running manually.

I'll have another go at making the Pipewire service soon. The last
issue I ran into is that since Guix doesn't use systemd, there is
no socket activation support that Pipewire can use, so I wasn't sure
how to launch it.

Shepherd socket activation

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Brendan Tildesley <mail@brendan.scot> writes:

> I'll have another go at making the Pipewire service soon. The last
> issue I ran into is that since Guix doesn't use systemd, there is
> no socket activation support that Pipewire can use, so I wasn't sure
> how to launch it.

We can add socket activation in its simplest form to Shepherd.  Shepherd
will only have to create socket files and listen for activity; on
activity it starts an associated service.  We don’t need to have it pass
sockets or do anything fancy.

I’m not a fan of how systemd uses only conventions to associate the
socket service with the service that should be activated.  In the
Shepherd we could define a separate one-shot service that creates the
socket (and has Shepherd listen on it), which names other services that
would be activated by activity on the socket.

-- 
Ricardo

Re: How Configure Guix to use Pipewire

[Antwane Mason]

Thank you, Brendan, for your response!

Have you run across this repo before?
https://git.sr.ht/~krevedkokun/dotfiles/tree/master/item/home/yggdrasil
This repo contains a home service definition for pipewire. I'm going to try
to play around with it
to see if it works, but I'm curious whether you or someone else has had any
experience using this repo.

On Sat, Feb 26, 2022 at 11:20 PM Brendan Tildesley <mail@brendan.scot>
wrote:

> A Pipewire service hasn't been added yet. I started working on one
> a while ago but haven't got around to finishing it.
> Pipewire is a user service, so if you disable pulseaudio and run
> Pipewire from a terminal you may be able to get it running manually.
>
> I'll have another go at making the Pipewire service soon. The last
> issue I ran into is that since Guix doesn't use systemd, there is
> no socket activation support that Pipewire can use, so I wasn't sure
> how to launch it.
>