{"id":992,"date":"2014-10-30T00:55:15","date_gmt":"2014-10-29T21:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joseph.zikusooka.com\/?p=992"},"modified":"2014-10-31T06:33:19","modified_gmt":"2014-10-31T03:33:19","slug":"toggle-several-pulseaudio-sinks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joseph.zikusooka.com\/?p=992","title":{"rendered":"Toggle between two or more Digital TV channels that are simultaneously playing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the advent of Over-the-Air (OTA) Digital TV in Uganda, I have found myself watching two or more TV channels simultaneously.  This is true especially during the 9 O&#8217;clock hour when most local TV stations in Uganda broadcast the evening news (OK, now you know: I am a news junkie).  <\/p>\n<p>While recording TV shows solves this itch as is the case with an upcoming media product I have been working on, it is still great to watch the news live.  You could manually mute a currently audible TV channel, and unmute the next desired one &#8211; but that&#8217;s no fun.  <\/p>\n<p>A while back, I whipped up a script that helps you toggle between all the available audio sources you are listening to.  It essentially switches between all the available sound sinks.  In my case, I use <a href=\"http:\/\/joseph.zikusooka.com\/?p=888\" title=\"Digital (Free-To-Air) TV now available in Uganda\"> VLC to watch OTA digital channels<\/a> with podcasts on some occasions.  What is neat, is that you can bind this script to any key on your keyboard, remote, or even Bluetooth device.<\/p>\n<p>If you are using a Linux based device and you are interested, I am making this tool available at: <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/zikusooka\/\" target=\"_blank\">my Github repository<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the advent of Over-the-Air (OTA) Digital TV in Uganda, I have found myself watching two or more TV channels simultaneously. This is true especially during the 9 O&#8217;clock hour when most local TV stations in Uganda broadcast the evening news (OK, now you know: I am a news junkie). While recording TV shows solves [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-code"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joseph.zikusooka.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joseph.zikusooka.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joseph.zikusooka.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joseph.zikusooka.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joseph.zikusooka.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=992"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/joseph.zikusooka.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1001,"href":"https:\/\/joseph.zikusooka.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992\/revisions\/1001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joseph.zikusooka.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joseph.zikusooka.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joseph.zikusooka.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}