Fixed unmute problem using a toggle-master function

[bitodt]

Initial issue:

When using the toggle function, mute worked as expected.
When unmuting with the toggle function, the master would be unmuted but the specific output devices wouldn't (I had to manually unmute them using pavucontrol).

Solution:
On toggle_master, mute/unmute the master but always let output devices unmuted.

[coldfix]

I had similar issues few years back but at some point it started working normally, possibly due to installing pulseaudio-alsa but not 100% sure. Maybe we can gather some clues here in order to put it in the README. What is your OS, do you have pulseaudio-alsa installed, and do you have any custom audio config?

[bitodt]

I can't find the pulseaudio-alsa package.

System:
OS: Ubuntu 18.04
Kernel: 4.15.0-32-generic
WM: Awesome v4.2
Related packages installed:

• pulseaudio-utils 1:11.1-1ubuntu7.1
• alsa-utils 1.1.3-1ubuntu1

I have no alsa-tools installed, I don't know if that's relevant.
No custom audio configs.

[coldfix]

Thanks. What parameters do you pass to the volumectrl?

I have

local volumecfg = volume_control({
    channel="Master",
    device="pulse",
})

It might be that device="pulse" was important for a better behaviour, but at this time it seems to work for me even without this setting.

BTW: pulseaudio-alsa is a package on archlinux that is supposed to add some compatibility settings and only contains a single file /etc/asound.conf:

# Use PulseAudio by default
pcm.!default {
  type pulse
  fallback "sysdefault"
  hint {
    show on
    description "Default ALSA Output (currently PulseAudio Sound Server)"
  }
}

ctl.!default {
  type pulse
  fallback "sysdefault"
}

[bitodt]

Turns out I didn't pass any parameters in volume_control.
After setting the channel and device as you described, it works as expected.
Thanks for the tip!

[coldfix]

Ok, I think in this case I will rather go for adding some documentation.