alsa_jack_gui

a qt-based gui to manage alsa_in and alsa_out daemons

Features

• read available in- and output devices (with aplay, arecord)
• start alsa_in (rsp. alsa_out) daemons with proper names for any detected device.
• stop running daemons on clean program exit
• remember for which devices daemons were started

Note: no jack routing is ever performed or saved by this program

Requirements

Linux

• Python 3
• Pip for python 3
• Python modules : PyQT 5, pexpect
• jackd2 (including alsa-jack bridge)
• alsa utilities (aplay, arecord)

Installation

No builds available, you gotta build it yourself for now..

Linux (Ubuntu)

• Install python modules :

    sudo apt-get install python3 python3-pip python3-pyqt5
    sudo pip3 install pexpect
  

• Install alsa utils and alsa-jack bridge:

    sudo apt-get install alsa-utils
  

• check out this repository

    cd /your/install/path
    git clone https://github.com/IARI/alsa_jack_gui.git
  

• run

    cd /your/install/path
    make 
  

  in the directory where you checked out the repo

Running

Linux

run the lightshow script from lightshow directory :

python3 alsa_jack.py

Contact

Feel free to send an email to julian.jarecki@gmail.com if you have any questions, remarks or if you find a bug.