🇵 Pulse setup

First, make shure PulseAudio is installed:

sudo apt install pulseaudio

Edit AlexaPi’s config

Locate config

The default AlexaPi’s config emplacement is /etc/opt/AlexaPi/config.yaml or in the same folder as AlexaPi.

🚫 If there’s no config.yaml, create it:

sudo cp /opt/AlexaPi/src/config.template.yaml /etc/opt/AlexaPi/config.yaml

Edit config

Now edit it with nano for example:

sudo nano /etc/opt/AlexaPi/config.yaml

and change theses lines with your input and output devices:

With VLC (default)

  input_device: "pulse"
  output: "pulse"
  output_device: ""

With SoX (if VLC is not working or for Rapberry )

  input_device: "pulse"
  output: "pulseaudio"
  output_device: "default"

Now save (Ctrl+X - y - Enter - Enter for nano) and start/restart AlexaPi

sudo service alexapi restart

Pulse config

Now you have to change pulse config. It can be done with pavucontrol if you have a graphical interface:

sudo apt install pavucontrol
pavucontrol

Or with pamixer in command line:

sudo apt install pamixer
pamixer

If it’s not working, install it manually:

git clone https://github.com/cdemoulins/pamixer.git
cd pamixer
make
./pamixer

If you have issues, please read debug doc