Docs/tooltip for the dummy driver

[sezanzeb]

Hi,

I wasn't able to find any information about the dummy driver at all. Someone once stated that it can be used to switch more easily between two input sources on reddit, but after asking how they figured that out or how to actually do it no answer came back.

There is no tooltip or anything, there is just the window with a bunch of numbers one can configure. When I select dummy I just don't get any sound.

I'd love to be able to use that. But right now it looks like a hand full of people on this planet know what it is and decided to keep everything about it as a secret.

[falkTX]

Dummy is what the name says, it is a dummy backend that does nothing. It is there for testing or situations where you do not have any device at all but still want to have jack stuff running

[sezanzeb]

Thanks for clarifying!

I found this now: https://jackaudio.org/faq/multiple_devices.html, maybe alsa_in and alsa_out can be used together with the dummy output mode? Maybe this is how that person used the dummy mode to switch soundcards

But anyhow, I actually don't have the problem nowadays because I'm only running a single audiointerface. I just remembered it and thought I could throw my two cents into the issue list.