rme-control-gui

A graphical interface interfacing with ALSA and Pipewire to give easy control to RME soundcard Babyface Pro

A fun little project to learn tauri and some rust. It's made to work on my mashine and my setup. The "buffer size" is just pipewires clock.force-quantum, and havn't yet tried if the app crashes without pipewire. Or how it handles running jack as main audio server etc. If you try it and can't get it to work, feel free to post issues and maybe i can fix it.

Features

• Monitor controls (headphones and main out)
• Switches (PAD, 48v, input sensetivity)
• Input gain controls (on kernel 6.12+)
• Main output volume controls (on kernel 6.12+)
• Buffer size and audio profile control (through Pipewire)

IMPORTANT: On kernel versions earlier than 6.12, app is run in compatibility mode, where there are no input gain controls, and no main out volume. Those are instead replaced by PCM routing, which gets the job done, but is not actually the same as changing monitor or headphones volume on the physical device. If you have an earlier kernel, you can manually apply this kernel patch (same one that is available in 6.12 and up) if you want full functionality.

Development

run "npm run tauri dev"

Building

run "npm run build-tauri"

I'm using Manjaro and have only tested on that distro. That will create an appimage that you can run as is. There might be a couple of dependencies you'd have to fix, the compiler will tell you. And at least for me, there is a bug with tauri and nvidia proprietary drivers, so i'd have to run the appimage with "WEBKIT_DISABLE_DMABUF_RENDERER=1" set. If you are using any debian based distro, you should be able to just change target to "deb" in src-tauri/tauri.conf.json.

As i'm not really doing this to share it as a ready made package to install and run, i won't put much effort into making it a neat package ready to use on all distros etc, at least for now. Hopefully that will change in a near future. The tauri docs can probably answer most build related questions.

Tauri + Vue + TypeScript

This template should help get you started developing with Vue 3 and TypeScript in Vite. The template uses Vue 3 <script setup> SFCs, check out the script setup docs to learn more.

Recommended IDE Setup

• VS Code + Volar + Tauri + rust-analyzer

Type Support For .vue Imports in TS

Since TypeScript cannot handle type information for .vue imports, they are shimmed to be a generic Vue component type by default. In most cases this is fine if you don't really care about component prop types outside of templates. However, if you wish to get actual prop types in .vue imports (for example to get props validation when using manual h(...) calls), you can enable Volar's Take Over mode by following these steps:

1. Run Extensions: Show Built-in Extensions from VS Code's command palette, look for TypeScript and JavaScript Language Features, then right click and select Disable (Workspace). By default, Take Over mode will enable itself if the default TypeScript extension is disabled.
2. Reload the VS Code window by running Developer: Reload Window from the command palette.

You can learn more about Take Over mode here.