PipeWire  1.0.0
Pulse Tunnel

The pulse-tunnel module provides a source or sink that tunnels all audio to a remote PulseAudio connection.

It is usually used with the PulseAudio or module-protocol-pulse on the remote end to accept the connection.

This module is usually used together with module-zeroconf-discover that will automatically load the tunnel with the right parameters based on zeroconf information.

Module Name

libpipewire-module-pulse-tunnel

Module Options

  • tunnel.mode: the desired tunnel to create, must be source or sink. (Default sink)
  • pulse.server.address: the address of the PulseAudio server to tunnel to.
  • pulse.latency: the latency to end-to-end latency in milliseconds to maintain (Default 200).
  • stream.props: Extra properties for the local stream.

General options

Options with well-known behavior.

Example configuration of a virtual sink

1 context.modules = [
2 { name = libpipewire-module-pulse-tunnel
3  args = {
4  tunnel.mode = sink
5  # Set the remote address to tunnel to
6  pulse.server.address = "tcp:192.168.1.126"
7  #pulse.latency = 200
8  #audio.rate=<sample rate>
9  #audio.channels=<number of channels>
10  #audio.position=<channel map>
11  #target.object=<remote target name>
12  stream.props = {
13  # extra sink properties
14  }
15  }
16 }
17 ]