Alsa Control Server

Shane Tully (shane@shanetully.com)

shanetully.com

https://github.com/shanet/Alsa-Channel-Control

Compiling

The server and client will compile with just a basic development enviroment set up.

• The Android client requires the Android SDK and Ant to be installed.
• You need the -xorg-dev (or similar) package installed.
• While not required at compile-time, the Alsa program "amixer" is required for the server to work properly.
• In order to communicate with the X server, the startup script needs to change the user the server is running as to a user that is logged in to X. At the very least, it needs changed to a user that exists on the system. In src/alsa-server change the line USER=shane to a user on the target system.

For the server and client:

make
sudo make install

For the Android client:

make android
sudo make install_android  <-- You should have your Android device plugged in

Usage

The server was written and tested on a Debian-based system. It should work on other Linux distros, but no guarantees are made.

First, start the server: sudo service alsa-server start

Either use the client (alsa-client) or the Android application to communicate with the server.

See "alsa-client -h" and "alsa-server -h" for specific usage info.

Support

This program is a little side project and carries no warranty or support from its author. However, bugs and feature requests may be submitted to the GitHub repo linked to above.

Legal

Copyright (C) 2012-2013 Shane Tully

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.