Remove audio device

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How do I delete or disable this device

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Observations:

  • I play sound through the Vega HDMI
  • media-avr is my network atached Denon AVR x2500h (with Airplay?)
  • selecting this sink switches the AVR away from HDMI input to Heos/Airplay
  • It takes KDE 30 seconds to discover the default Vega sink which forces it to select the media-avr one instead

right- left- or center click has no effect. I will probably never play sound from Fedora to this device directly. What also would work is prevent automatic switching of sound devices.

Operating System: Fedora Linux 43
KDE Plasma Version: 6.6.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.25.0
Qt Version: 6.10.3
Kernel Version: 6.19.13-200.fc43.x86_64 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 8 × Intel® Core™ i7-7700K CPU @ 4.20GHz
Memory: 16 GiB of RAM (15.5 GiB usable)
Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon RX Vega
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Would completely disabling Airplay discovery be a workable solution for you?

If so, see the below thread. You can disable Airplay either by creating a config file (details in the thread), or just remove the relevant package by sudo dnf remove pipewire-config-raop.

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Yeah I tried that first. but alas denon does not allow you to do that

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You can disable it on the Fedora side and then you shouldn’t need to touch the Denon.

Either sudo dnf remove pipewire-config-raop, or add a Pipewire configuration as described in the linked thread.

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I have no /etc/pipewire no .local/pipewire folders . Do I have to create3 these? I’m happy that some sound works which was not easy. In fact the only thing I need are the GPU hdmi audio sinks (2 or 5.1) everything else can go.

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Yes, if you want to go the config file route, then either:

sudo mkdir -p /etc/pipewire/pipewire.conf.d

or:

mkdir -p ~/.config/pipewire/pipewire.conf.d

then put the file in the newly created directory.