Pulsemeeter

A frontend to ease the use of pulseaudio's routing capabilities, mimicking voicemeeter's workflow

Wiki: [Installation] [How to use]

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Table of Contents

• Features
• Installation
  • Dependencies
  • Arch
  • Pypi install
  • Manual/Git install
• Auto Start
• Discord Server

Features

• Create virtual inputs and outputs
• Route audio from one device to another
• Volume control
• Equalizer for hardware and virtual outputs
• Rnnoise noise reduction (same algorithm as noisetorch) for hardware inputs

Installation

Dependencies

Visit the dependencies section in the wiki to get in depth information on how to install these for your specific system.

• pip
• libappindicator3
• gobject-introspection-1.0
• libpulse

Python Dependencies

Pip will automaticly install these dependencies

• pygobject
• pulsectl
• setuptools

Optional Dependencies

These dependencies are optional and will enable new features in the application

• noise-suppression-for-voice for noise reduction
• swh-plugins for equalizers (apt/dnf/pacman packages available)
• pulse-vumeter for volume level information

Any distro

Single user

When installing for a single user (without sudo) you need to add ~/.local/bin to your path, this section will show you how to do it

pip install pulsemeeter

For all users

sudo pip install pulsemeeter

Arch (AUR)

Two packages are available in the AUR: pulsemeeter and pulsemeeter-git.

Build from source:

Single user

When installing for a single user (without sudo) you need to add ~/.local/bin to your path, this section will show you how to do it

git clone https://github.com/theRealCarneiro/pulsemeeter.git
cd pulsemeeter
pip install .

For all users

git clone https://github.com/theRealCarneiro/pulsemeeter.git
cd pulsemeeter
sudo pip install .

Uninstall

sudo pip uninstall pulsemeeter

Add local bin to PATH

When installing for a single user, you to need to have $HOME/.local/bin in your PATH, to do this, you'll have to add this line to your ~/.profile (or .zprofile if you use zsh as your login shell) file

export PATH="$HOME/.local/bin:$PATH"

Start devices on startup

Starting devices only

If you only want to restore all connections and devices but not start the entire application, you can run:

pulsemeeter init

Start pulsemeeter as a daemon

You can run pulsemeeter as a daemon, might be useful if you want the app the start in the tray on startup

pulsemeeter daemon

Extensions

@Fl1tzi Elgato Streamdeck intergration pulsemeeter-streamdeck

Discord Server

If you want to get updates about new features, patches or leave some sugestions, join our discord server

Special thanks to

• xiph.org/Mozilla's excellent RNNoise.
• @werman's noise-suppression-for-voice
• @swh's swh-plugins