Sound Deck

[cloud frigate]

I'm trying to use the Sound Deck plugin, but I just get an exclamation mark on the icon when I try to add a file. No box comes up to choose a location. I'm not sure if there's some permission that I have to give the app? Maybe just a plugin that isn't compatible? I'm fairly new to daily driving Linux. Currently using CachyOS and installed Open Deck with yay. Wine is installed.

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[bright wraith]

Sound Deck is probably an only Windows Plugin since it probably relies on Windows only APIs. Need to check it later tho in depth.

[cloud frigate]

gotcha, just wanted to make sure it wasn't a me problem. What's a good plugin that works on linux for playing sounds? I saw that there is a soundpad integration but not sure how well that one works. Seems like Soundpad doesn't work natively on linux but I think I may have saw a work around. Is there an easy go to plugin instead?

[bright wraith]

Do you need to play it through something like doscord? Or do you just want to use it to play sounds on your local speakers?

[cloud frigate]

this would be through discord

[bright wraith]

then for now, maybe the Discord soundboard?

I am working on a guide, but haven't found a setup yet that works for myself.

[cloud frigate]

I guess I should have been more specific, technically I need it to work with Stoat as I'm not really using discord much. Once stoat adds screen share, I'm deleting my discord. On windows I ran Soundpad and it worked fine. I just installed Pipewire Soundpad on linux and the program works, but the Soundpad plugin on OpenDeck doesn't seem to recognize it

I found it really odd that even on windows there weren't a lot of ways to play sounds and you pretty much needed additional programs running. My stream Deck is the last thing that I need to get working on linux, really hoping it doesn't become a paper weight

[bright wraith]

the Soundpad plugin probably uses windows specific things to get what it wants.

[cloud frigate]

yeah, I guess I was having such a good experience with Wine that I just assumed things would work well. Guess I got ahead of myself

[cloud frigate]

okay, leaving this here for anyone in the future: Using https://github.com/arabianq/pipewire-soundpad and then just setting up Open Deck to run a command and running pwsp-cli action play /path/to/sound/ and then just changing your mic input to pwsp virtual mic, sounds come through

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[exotic night]

nice looks great

[bright wraith]

does this still passthrough your mic?

[cloud frigate]

As long as you set your input to "pwsp virtual mic" in stoat, discord, etc then yes

[bright wraith]

So the next step is, to make a plugin for this if possible.

[exotic night]

@bright wraith since it's written in rust, you can make it be able to be used as a library