Confusing Pulseaudio device names.
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Assessment
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100
- Issue type
- Bug
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Activity status
- Stale
- Tech stack
- linux
- Domain
- audio-video-rtc
Research direction
Start with the reported pacmd list-sinks output and the pavucontrol view, comparing the HDMI and Analog entries and their device.description values. Done means the two devices are distinguishable in pavucontrol, verified against the reported Raspberry Pi setup.
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Description
Describe the bug
Name of PulseAudio devices confusiong
To reproduce
Update to May 2020 version
Actual behaviour
When listing the available sinks in PulseAudio the HDMI and Analog devices have the same name
Only with a fully detailed pacmd list-sinks you can tell them apart
HDMI
properties:
alsa.resolution_bits = "16"
device.api = "alsa"
device.class = "sound"
alsa.class = "generic"
alsa.subclass = "generic-mix"
alsa.name = "bcm2835 HDMI 1"
alsa.id = "bcm2835 HDMI 1"
alsa.subdevice = "0"
alsa.subdevice_name = "subdevice #0"
alsa.device = "0"
alsa.card = "0"
alsa.card_name = "bcm2835 HDMI 1"
alsa.long_card_name = "bcm2835 HDMI 1"
alsa.driver_name = "snd_bcm2835"
device.bus_path = "platform-soc:audio"
sysfs.path = "/devices/platform/soc/soc:audio/sound/card0"
device.form_factor = "internal"
device.string = "hw:0"
device.buffering.buffer_size = "131072"
device.buffering.fragment_size = "131072"
device.access_mode = "mmap+timer"
device.profile.name = "analog-mono"
device.profile.description = "Analog Mono"
device.description = "Built-in Audio Analog Mono"
alsa.mixer_name = "Broadcom Mixer"
module-udev-detect.discovered = "1"
device.icon_name = "audio-card"
Analog
properties:
alsa.resolution_bits = "16"
device.api = "alsa"
device.class = "sound"
alsa.class = "generic"
alsa.subclass = "generic-mix"
alsa.name = "bcm2835 Headphones"
alsa.id = "bcm2835 Headphones"
alsa.subdevice = "0"
alsa.subdevice_name = "subdevice #0"
alsa.device = "0"
alsa.card = "1"
alsa.card_name = "bcm2835 Headphones"
alsa.long_card_name = "bcm2835 Headphones"
alsa.driver_name = "snd_bcm2835"
device.bus_path = "platform-soc:audio"
sysfs.path = "/devices/platform/soc/soc:audio/sound/card1"
device.form_factor = "internal"
device.string = "hw:1"
device.buffering.buffer_size = "131072"
device.buffering.fragment_size = "131072"
device.access_mode = "mmap+timer"
device.profile.name = "analog-mono"
device.profile.description = "Analog Mono"
device.description = "Built-in Audio Analog Mono"
alsa.mixer_name = "Broadcom Mixer"
module-udev-detect.discovered = "1"
device.icon_name = "audio-card"
What matters in pavucontrol is the device.description which does not differentiate them
If the name could contian HDMI vs Analog it would be easier to use.

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