#!/usr/bin/env bash # audio-device-switch - audio device switch with a keybind # Adapted from this: # https://gist.githubusercontent.com/kbravh/1117a974f89cc53664e55823a55ac320/raw/9d04a10ae925074536047ae8100c6b0dbfc303d6/audio-device-switch.sh # Readme: https://gist.github.com/kbravh/1117a974f89cc53664e55823a55ac320 # Creator: https://github.com/kbravh # Audio Output Switcher # This script will cycle to the next available audio output device. # It can be tied to a hotkey to easily be triggered. # This is handy, for example, for swapping between speakers and headphones. # This script will work on systems running PulseAudio or Pipewire services. # Check which sound server is running if pgrep pulseaudio >/dev/null; then sound_server="pulseaudio" elif pgrep pipewire >/dev/null; then sound_server="pipewire" else echo "Neither PulseAudio nor PipeWire is running." exit 1 fi # Grab a count of how many audio sinks we have if [[ "$sound_server" == "pulseaudio" ]]; then sink_count=$(pacmd list-sinks | grep -c "index:[[:space:]][[:digit:]]") # Create an array of the actual sink IDs sinks=() mapfile -t sinks < <(pacmd list-sinks | grep 'index:[[:space:]][[:digit:]]' | sed -n -e 's/.*index:[[:space:]]\([[:digit:]]\)/\1/p') # Get the ID of the active sink active_sink=$(pacmd list-sinks | sed -n -e 's/[[:space:]]*\*[[:space:]]index:[[:space:]]\([[:digit:]]\)/\1/p') elif [[ "$sound_server" == "pipewire" ]]; then sink_count=$(pactl list sinks | grep -c "Sink #[[:digit:]]") # Create an array of the actual sink IDs sinks=() mapfile -t sinks < <(pactl list sinks | grep 'Sink #[[:digit:]]' | sed -n -e 's/.*Sink #\([[:digit:]]\)/\1/p') # Get the ID of the active sink active_sink_name=$(pactl info | grep 'Default Sink:' | sed -n -e 's/.*Default Sink:[[:space:]]\+\(.*\)/\1/p') active_sink=$(pactl list sinks | grep -B 2 "$active_sink_name" | sed -n -e 's/Sink #\([[:digit:]]\)/\1/p' | head -n 1) fi # Get the ID of the last sink in the array final_sink=${sinks[$((sink_count - 1))]} # Find the index of the active sink for index in "${!sinks[@]}"; do if [[ "${sinks[$index]}" == "$active_sink" ]]; then active_sink_index=$index fi done # Default to the first sink in the list next_sink=${sinks[0]} next_sink_index=0 # If we're not at the end of the list, move up the list if [[ $active_sink -ne $final_sink ]]; then next_sink_index=$((active_sink_index + 1)) next_sink=${sinks[$next_sink_index]} fi #change the default sink if [[ "$sound_server" == "pulseaudio" ]]; then pacmd "set-default-sink ${next_sink}" elif [[ "$sound_server" == "pipewire" ]]; then # Get the name of the next sink next_sink_name=$(pactl list sinks | grep -C 2 "Sink #$next_sink" | sed -n -e 's/.*Name:[[:space:]]\+\(.*\)/\1/p' | head -n 1) pactl set-default-sink "$next_sink_name" fi #move all inputs to the new sink if [[ "$sound_server" == "pulseaudio" ]]; then for app in $(pacmd list-sink-inputs | sed -n -e 's/index:[[:space:]]\([[:digit:]]\)/\1/p'); do pacmd "move-sink-input $app $next_sink" done elif [[ "$sound_server" == "pipewire" ]]; then for app in $(pactl list sink-inputs | sed -n -e 's/.*Sink Input #\([[:digit:]]\)/\1/p'); do pactl "move-sink-input $app $next_sink" done fi # Create a list of the sink descriptions sink_descriptions=() if [[ "$sound_server" == "pulseaudio" ]]; then mapfile -t sink_descriptions < <(pacmd list-sinks | sed -n -e 's/.*alsa.name[[:space:]]=[[:space:]]"\(.*\)"/\1/p') elif [[ "$sound_server" == "pipewire" ]]; then mapfile -t sink_descriptions < <(pactl list sinks | sed -n -e 's/.*Description:[[:space:]]\+\(.*\)/\1/p') fi # Find the index that matches our new active sink for sink_index in "${!sink_descriptions[@]}"; do if [[ "$sink_index" == "$next_sink_index" ]]; then notify-send -i audio-volume-high "Sound output switched to:" "${sink_descriptions[$sink_index]}" exit fi done