pulse-volume-monitor

pulse-volume-monitor is a simple C++ program that listens to PulseAudio's sink and source events and emits DBus signals sinkChanged and sourceChanged when something has been changed (volume, sink or source muted, etc).

For use with AwesomeWM in volume indicator widgets.

Usage

./pulse-volume-monitor dbus or ./pulse-volume-monitor stdout (for debugging)

AwesomeWM Lua example

dbus.request_name("session", "com.ch1p.pvm")
dbus.add_match("session", "interface='com.ch1p.pvm',member='sinkChanged'")
dbus.add_match("session", "interface='com.ch1p.pvm',member='sourceChanged'")
dbus.connect_signal("com.ch1p.pvm", 
    function(info)
        -- info.member is "sinkChanged" or "sourceChanged"
        -- your code here
    end
)