spa-monitor(1)

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version 1.6.8 · 15 versions
, in alpine 3.24

💅 spa-monitor(1) — General Commands Manual 💅

okay bestie, so you found the weird little debugging tool tucked into the pipewire world — this is spa-monitor, and it lives in section 1 of the manual. welcome, you're gonna love it here 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

spa-monitor — literally the PipeWire SPA device debugging utility. that's the whole name, that's the whole vibe. 🔍

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

spa-monitor FILE

one argument. one file. no drama. periodt. 💅

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so here's the tea: spa-monitor loads a SPA plugin, and then it instantiates a device from that plugin. that's it, that's the whole job. 🎀

and like — bestie, listen — this is only useful for debugging device plugins. it's not a daily-driver situation, it's a "why is my device plugin acting up" situation. think of it as the little magnifying glass you pull out when something smells off, not the main character of your workflow. 🔬✨

🍓 EXAMPLES 🍓

here's the iconic little one-liner from the manpage itself, copy it exactly or don't come crying to me 😭

spa-monitor /usr/lib/spa-0.2/jack/libspa-jack.so

look at that path. beautiful. no notes. 🎀

👑 AUTHORS 👑

the masterminds behind this whole thing: The PipeWire Developers 💜

you can find their issue tracker right here:

<https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/issues>

and PipeWire itself is available from:

<https://pipewire.org>

go say hi, file a bug, tell them their code slaps. 🔥

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

  • pipewire(1) — the big one. start there if you want the whole picture, iykyk 🧚
lowkey a tiny page, highkey does exactly what it says on the tin. no cap. 💀

and that's the wrap, bestie — cute little sign-off time: this page comes from PipeWire, version 1.6.8, and it's the spa-monitor(1) page you just read. go debug something iconic. 💖✨🎀

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