I am trying to get pipewire to work on a headless install. I have found various howtos but none of them quite work or assume old versions of packages. This is how far I’ve got.
As root…
apt install pipewire pipewire-alsa alsa-utils pipewire-media-session-pulseaudio pipewire-pulse dbus-user-session pulseaudio-utils
systemctl unmask systemd-logind
systemctl restart systemd-logind
sed -i -r "s/^((audio|pipewire).*):[^:]*/\1:dietpi/g" /etc/group
loginctl enable-linger dietpi
reboot
Then as user dietpi…
$ pactl info
Connection failure: Connection refused
pa_context_connect() failed: Connection refused
$ alsamixer
cannot open mixer: Host is down
I can see that dbus sessions and the pipewire services are running.
dietpi@DietPi:~$ ps aux | grep pipewire
dietpi 577 0.0 0.5 41800 11564 ? S<sl 18:23 0:00 /usr/bin/pipewire
dietpi 578 0.1 0.5 23024 10472 ? Ssl 18:23 0:00 /usr/bin/pipewire-media-session
dietpi 580 0.0 0.4 24024 8332 ? S<sl 18:23 0:00 /usr/bin/pipewire-pulse
dietpi 656 0.0 0.0 3808 1872 pts/0 S+ 18:23 0:00 grep pipewire
dietpi@DietPi:~$ ps aux | grep dbus
message+ 450 0.0 0.1 7920 3748 ? Ss 18:23 0:00 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --system --address=systemd: --nofork --nopidfile --systemd-activation --syslog-only
dietpi 594 0.0 0.2 7776 4060 ? Ss 18:23 0:00 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --session --address=systemd: --nofork --nopidfile --systemd-activation --syslog-only
dietpi 1092 0.0 0.0 3808 1900 pts/0 S+ 18:23 0:00 grep dbus
What else do I need to do to get this to work?