A command line tool that will list all the sound devices that Cinnamon reports on its Sound Settings in CSV format

list-sound-devices

#!/usr/bin/python3
#
# A simple command-line utility to list the devices that Cinnamon Sound Settings will list. 
#
# Serves primarily to illustrate how they are read, and what common properties are available
# for such a device.
#
# Conveniently illustrates whence Cinnamon Sound Settings gets the two lines it reports on a device.
# The first line is "description" and the second is "origin".
#
# A device is technically a port on a card (in Pulse Audio terms) and the origin seems always to be the name of the card.

import gi
gi.require_version('Cvc', '1.0')

from gi.repository import Cvc, GLib

import signal
signal.signal(signal.SIGINT, signal.SIG_DFL)

import sys, csv

main_loop = None
printer = None

class Main:
    def __init__(self):
        self.controller = Cvc.MixerControl(name = "list-outputs")
        self.controller.connect("output-added", self.device_added, "output")
        self.controller.connect("input-added", self.device_added, "input")
        self.controller.connect("state-changed", self.state_changed)
        self.controller.open()

    def device_added(self, controller, id, type):
        device = getattr(self.controller, "lookup_"+type+"_id")(id)
        row = [type, id, device.get_description(), device.get_origin(), device.get_card().get_name(), device.get_port(), device.get_active_profile(), device.get_icon_name()]
        printer.writerow(row)

    def state_changed(self, controller, id):
        if self.controller.get_state() == Cvc.MixerControlState.READY:
            main_loop.quit()

if __name__ == "__main__":
    header = ["type", "id", "description", "origin", "card.name", "port", "active_profile", "icon_name"]
    printer = csv.writer(sys.stdout)
    printer.writerow(header)
    main = Main()
    main_loop = GLib.MainLoop.new(None, True)
    main_loop.run()