Snapcast Discover

Automatically creates a Snapcast sink device based on zeroconf information.

This module will load module-protocol-simple for each announced stream that matches the rule with the create-stream action and passes the properties to the module.

If no stream.rules are given, it will create a sink for all announced snapcast servers.

A new stream will be created on the snapcast server with the given snapcast.stream-name or PipeWire-<hostname>. You will need to route this new stream to clients with the snapcast control application.

Module Name

libpipewire-module-snapcast-discover

Module Options

Options specific to the behavior of this module

• snapcast.discover-local = allow discovery of local services as well. false by default.
• stream.rules = <rules>: match rules, use create-stream actions. See Protocol Simple for module properties.

Example configuration

context.modules = [
{   name = libpipewire-snapcast-discover
    args = {
        stream.rules = [
            {   matches = [
                    {    snapcast.ip = "~.*"
                         #snapcast.ifindex = 1
                         #snapcast.ifname = eth0
                         #snapcast.port = 1000
                         #snapcast.name = ""
                         #snapcast.hostname = ""
                         #snapcast.domain = ""
                    }
                ]
                actions = {
                    create-stream = {
                        #audio.rate = 44100
                        #audio.format = S16LE   # S16LE, S24_32LE, S32LE
                        #audio.channels = 2
                        #audio.position = [ FL FR ]
                        #
                        #snapcast.stream-name = "PipeWire"
                        #
                        #capture = true
                        #capture.props = {
                            #target.object = ""
                            #media.class = "Audio/Sink"
                        #}
                    }
                }
            }
        ]
    }
}
]

See also

Protocol Simple