noob-max-ai/pulse-audio-stream

Use android as mic/speaker for ubuntu

Pulse Audio Control Panel

Platforms

Requirements

• sudo apt install ffmpeg
• pactl (already installed)

Download

• Download the AppImage from release page
• chmod +x PulseAudioStream.AppImage
• Run using ./PulseAudioStream.AppImage.

Use Android as Extended Speakers

• Install PulseDroid.apk from https://github.com/dront78/PulseDroid or https://github.com/dront78/PulseDroid/blob/master/bin/PulseDroid.apk
• Start ./PulseControl.AppImage.
• In Pulse Audio Server menu, select an output source to capture from and click start. It'll show the ip to connect to.
• Enter the ip and port in PulseDroid app and hit play.
• If you can't hear the audio, stop the server and change output source.

Use Android as mic

• Download IP webcam and start it as an audio server (disable video for battery life). When you start server, note the ip and port,
• Enter the path to IP Webcam audio source in the text entry in the format http://192.168.10.7:8080/audio.opus http://:/audio.opus
• Hit start server
• Now the mic will be available to all ubuntu apps.

Special Thanks to

• MatthiasCoppens/pulseaudio-virtualmic

Tested on

• Ubuntu 20.04
• Ubuntu 20.04 VM
• Manjaro 20.1.2
• Manjaro 21.0.6
• Arch Linux
• Raspi OS
• OpenSuse Leap
• OpenSuse Tumbleweed
• Termux
• Alpine
• Cygwin

Running from source

• zypper install python-tk
• python3 main.py

Build

• zypper install python-tk
• pip3 install pyinstaller
• pyinstaller --onefile main.py

Build Artifacts

Latest Releases can be obtained from github actions