pipewire: change speaker/output description at runtime
<cweiske> I'd like to temporarily change the name of a pipewire output. I already found the device id 73 with "pw-cli list-objects" and see that the label that Gnome Shell shows is the "node.description" property:
<cweiske> $ pw-cli info 73 |grep node.desc
<cweiske> * node.description = "Sennheiser PC 8.2 USB Analog Stereo"
<cweiske> How can I change that?
<cweiske> I tried
<cweiske> $ pw-cli set-param 73 Props '{ props = [ 'node.description' "Headset" ] }
<cweiske> but that does not work.
<cweiske> I also tried variations like '{ props = [ "node.description": "Headset Sennheiser" ] }', but no avail
<wtay> cweiske, it's not possible to change a property like that
<wtay> cweiske, you can make a wireplumber rule to change the description though
<cweiske> I saw that in the docs: https://docs.pipewire.org/page_man_pipewire_conf_5.html
<cweiske> but I thought I could try that at run-time
<wtay> https://pipewire.pages.freedesktop.org/wireplumber/daemon/configuration/alsa.html#rules
<wtay> not possible at runtime
<cweiske> thanks for the info.1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 | $ pw-cli list-objects [...] id 50, type PipeWire:Interface:Node/3 object.serial = "51" object.path = "alsa:pcm:3:front:3:playback" factory.id = "18" client.id = "33" device.id = "47" priority.session = "1009" priority.driver = "1009" node.description = "USB Audio Analog Stereo" node.name = "alsa_output.usb-Generic_USB_Audio-00.analog-stereo" node.nick = "USB Device 0xdb0 0x422d" media.class = "Audio/Sink" [...] id 73, type PipeWire:Interface:Node/3 object.serial = "1170" object.path = "alsa:pcm:4:front:4:playback" factory.id = "18" client.id = "33" device.id = "71" priority.session = "1009" priority.driver = "1009" node.description = "Sennheiser PC 8.2 USB Analog Stereo" node.name = "alsa_output.usb-Sennheiser_Sennheiser_PC_8.2_USB_A002900204807706-00.analog-stereo" node.nick = "Sennheiser PC 8.2 USB" media.class = "Audio/Sink" [...] $ pw-cli info 50 |grep node.desc * node.description = "USB Audio Analog Stereo" $ pw-cli info 73 |grep node.desc * node.description = "Sennheiser PC 8.2 USB Analog Stereo" $ pw-dump 73|jq '.[0].info.props["node.description"]' "Sennheiser PC 8.2 USB Analog Stereo" |
- https://docs.pipewire.org/page_man_pipewire_conf_5.html#pipewire_conf__device_rules
- https://pipewire.pages.freedesktop.org/wireplumber/daemon/configuration/alsa.html#rules
/etc/pipewire/pipewire.conf.d/cweiske-device-names.conf
Debugging:
$ systemctl --user restart pipewire wireplumber $ journalctl --user-unit=pipewire --user-unit=wireplumber -f
