User:SigHunter/PipeWire

Disabling or delaying audio sink suspension

By default, audio devices go into standby after 5 seconds of no audio. This can be annoying, because some devices take a few seconds to start up again. session.suspend-timeout-seconds = 0 disables this completely, the default value is 5 seconds, adjust depeding on your needs.

To make it simple, this config applies to all sources and audio sinks. >=media-video/wireplumber-0.5 is necessary to use this json style wireplumber config

FILE ~/.config/wireplumber/wireplumber.conf.d/51-disable-suspension.conf

monitor.alsa.rules = [
  {
    matches = [
      {
        # Matches all sources
        node.name = "~alsa_input.*"
      },
      {
        # Matches all sinks
        node.name = "~alsa_output.*"
      }
    ]
    actions = {
      update-props = {
        session.suspend-timeout-seconds = 0
      }
    }
  }
]
# bluetooth devices
monitor.bluez.rules = [
  {
    matches = [
      {
        # Matches all sources
        node.name = "~bluez_input.*"
      },
      {
        # Matches all sinks
        node.name = "~bluez_output.*"
      }
    ]
    actions = {
      update-props = {
        session.suspend-timeout-seconds = 0
      }
    }
  }
]

With systemd restart pipewire.service and pipewire-pulse.service afterwards or alternatively reboot.

user $systemctl restart --user pipewire.service pipewire-pulse.service