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Re: [ubuntu-phone] Determine whether the phone is muted

 

I'm not sure it's the best way but using Pulseaudio's DBus interface might
work. There seems to be a MuteUpdated signal that is sent out when a device
is muted:
http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Documentation/Developer/Clients/DBus/Device/

On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 9:45 AM, Jonas Drange <jonas.drange@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> I don't know about system wide muting—but I suspect the app to not have
> access to this information. Either way, wouldn't this [1] be a natural
> place to start looking for information? Maybe one of the examples can help
> you.
>
> [1] https://developer.ubuntu.com/api/apps/qml/sdk-14.10/QtMultimedia/
>
> Jonas
>
> On 25 June 2015 at 09:34, Frans Schreuder <fransschreuder@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
>> On 06/24/2015 07:31 PM, Frans Schreuder wrote:
>> > Hello All,
>> >
>> > Is there a way (in qml or c++) to see whether the phone was muted?
>> > I got a feature request for my app to shut down the app when the phone
>> > is muted, but I don't know whether there is a library call for it.
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> >
>> > Frans
>> >
>> Anyone?
>> This page was edited in 2013:
>> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SilentMode
>> Has nothing happened ever since, or do we just need documentation?
>>
>>
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