Section 7 · Overviews and conventions

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libpipewire-module-raop-sink

NAME
DESCRIPTION
MODULE NAME
MODULE OPTIONS
EXAMPLE CONFIGURATION
SEE ALSO

NAME

libpipewire-module-raop-sink − AirPlay Sink

DESCRIPTION

Creates a new Sink to stream to an Airplay device.

Normally this sink is automatically created with RAOP Discover with the right parameters but it is possible to manually create a RAOP sink as well.

MODULE NAME

libpipewire-module-raop-sink

MODULE OPTIONS

Options specific to the behavior of this module


	•		raop.ip: The ip address of the remote end.
	•		raop.port: The port of the remote end.
	•		raop.name: The name of the remote end.
	•		raop.hostname: The hostname of the remote end.
	•		raop.transport: The data transport to use, one of “udp” or “tcp”. Defaults to “udp”.
	•		raop.encryption.type: The encryption type to use. One of “none”, “RSA” or “auth_setup”. Default is “none”.
	•		raop.audio.codec: The audio codec to use. Needs to be “PCM”. Defaults to “PCM”.
	•		raop.password: The password to use.
	•		stream.props = {}: properties to be passed to the sink stream

Options with well-known behavior.


	•		remote.name
	•		audio.format
	•		audio.rate
	•		audio.channels
	•		audio.position
	•		node.name
	•		node.description
	•		node.group
	•		node.latency
	•		node.virtual
	•		media.class

EXAMPLE CONFIGURATION

~/.config/pipewire/pipewire.conf.d/my−raop−sink.conf

context.modules = [
{ name = libpipewire−module−raop−sink
args = {

Set the remote address to tunnel to

raop.ip = “127.0.0.1”
raop.port = 8190
raop.name = “my−raop−device”
raop.hostname = “My Service”
#raop.transport = “udp”
raop.encryption.type = “RSA”
#raop.audio.codec = “PCM”
#raop.password = ”****“
#audio.format = “S16”
#audio.rate = 44100
#audio.channels = 2
#audio.position = [ FL FR ]
stream.props = {

extra sink properties

}
}
}
]