How to Run PulseAudio as a Service via systemd for Root User?

henrique.tx · December 19, 2024, 10:58pm

From the default Pulseaudio recipe (from OpenEmbedded), seems like it it already equipped with a pulseaudio.service.

openembedded/openembedded-core/blob/scarthgap/meta/recipes-multimedia/pulseaudio/pulseaudio.inc

SUMMARY = "Sound server for Linux and Unix-like operating systems"
DESCRIPTION = "A general purpose sound server intended to run as a middleware \
between your applications and your hardware devices, either using ALSA or OSS."
HOMEPAGE = "http://www.pulseaudio.org"
SECTION = "libs/multimedia"

# Most of PulseAudio code is under LGPL-2.1-or-later. There are a few
# exceptions:
#
# The "adrian" echo canceller variant has code under a non-standard permissive
# license. See src/modules/echo-cancel/adrian-license.txt for details. This
# recipe disables the adrian echo canceller to avoid hassle with the unusual
# license.
#
# The src/modules/reserve* and src/pulsecore/rtkit* files are under the MIT
# license.
#
# The src/pulsecore/filter/ directory contains code under the 3-clause BSD
# license.
#

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Which comes from:

Isn’t it working for you?

And, as we can see here, there is the condition to not be executed as root, since it is not recommended.

Do I guess correctly that you want to execute it as root because of the script shared on Experiencing Stuttering and Audio Interruptions in Bluetooth Calls with Pulseaudio - #23 by bruno.tx (which is in Pulseaudio and module-echo-cancel YOCTO recipe - #15 by bruno.tx)?

Best regards,