fix(headless/kde): virtual Punktfunk speaker + restart host with the session

Audio: a headless host has no speakers, and on a LAN with AirPlay devices PipeWire picks a random HomePod as default — so desktop audio (which the host captures from the default sink's monitor) went to a HomePod over AirPlay instead of to the client, and there was no "Punktfunk" output to select. Ship a `punktfunk-sink.conf` (a `support.null-audio-sink` adapter — NOT the non-existent module-null-sink, which makes pipewire refuse to start) with high priority.session so it's the default; run-headless-kde.sh installs it and restarts pipewire once on first install. The host then captures its monitor and streams it. (Disable AirPlay sinks out of band: `dnf remove pipewire-config-raop`.) Input: the host's libei portal D-Bus connection goes stale when the compositor session restarts the portal under it, and the in-process reopen loop can't recover it (EIS setup keeps timing out) — only a full restart does. Add PartOf=punktfunk-kde-session.service so the host restarts with the session. Both verified live on the Fedora 44 KDE box. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-13 23:30:36 +00:00
parent 9c23ad5303
commit 5bc257f1ae
5 changed files with 48 additions and 0 deletions
@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ sed -i 's#%h/punktfunk/target/release/punktfunk-host#/usr/bin/punktfunk-host#' \
 install -Dm0755 scripts/headless/run-headless-kde.sh   "$SHAREDIR/headless/run-headless-kde.sh"
 install -Dm0755 scripts/headless/run-headless-sway.sh  "$SHAREDIR/headless/run-headless-sway.sh"
 install -Dm0644 scripts/headless/kde-authorized        "$SHAREDIR/headless/kde-authorized"
+install -Dm0644 scripts/headless/punktfunk-sink.conf   "$SHAREDIR/headless/punktfunk-sink.conf"
 install -Dm0644 scripts/host.env.example           "$SHAREDIR/host.env.example"
 install -Dm0644 packaging/bazzite/host.env         "$SHAREDIR/host.env.bazzite"
 install -Dm0644 docs/api/openapi.json              "$SHAREDIR/openapi.json"
@@ -161,6 +161,8 @@ install -Dm0755 scripts/headless/run-headless-kde.sh   %{buildroot}%{_datadir}/%
 install -Dm0755 scripts/headless/run-headless-sway.sh  %{buildroot}%{_datadir}/%{name}/headless/run-headless-sway.sh
 # RemoteDesktop grant pre-seed for headless libei input (run-headless-kde.sh copies it in).
 install -Dm0644 scripts/headless/kde-authorized        %{buildroot}%{_datadir}/%{name}/headless/kde-authorized
+# Virtual "Punktfunk" speaker (null sink the host captures/streams; run-headless-kde.sh installs it).
+install -Dm0644 scripts/headless/punktfunk-sink.conf   %{buildroot}%{_datadir}/%{name}/headless/punktfunk-sink.conf
 install -Dm0644 scripts/host.env.example               %{buildroot}%{_datadir}/%{name}/host.env.example
 install -Dm0644 packaging/bazzite/host.env             %{buildroot}%{_datadir}/%{name}/host.env.bazzite
 install -Dm0644 packaging/kde/host.env                 %{buildroot}%{_datadir}/%{name}/host.env.kde
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+# PipeWire drop-in for the headless punktfunk host: a virtual "Punktfunk" speaker.
+#
+# A headless streaming host has no real speakers — desktop audio should go to a sink the host
+# captures and streams to the client, not to whatever PipeWire picked (on a LAN with AirPlay
+# devices that's often a random HomePod). This null sink is that capture target; its high
+# priority.session makes WirePlumber select it as the default output, so apps play to it, the host
+# captures its monitor (audio/linux.rs, stream.capture.sink), and the client hears the desktop.
+#
+# Copied to ~/.config/pipewire/pipewire.conf.d/ by run-headless-kde.sh. Pair with disabling RAOP
+# (remove the pipewire-config-raop package / its 50-raop.conf symlink) so AirPlay devices don't
+# show up as outputs at all. NB: a null sink is a `support.null-audio-sink` adapter object — NOT
+# `libpipewire-module-null-sink`, which doesn't exist on PipeWire 1.x and makes the daemon refuse
+# to start (mandatory-module load failure).
+context.objects = [
+    {   factory = adapter
+        args = {
+            factory.name     = support.null-audio-sink
+            node.name        = "punktfunk"
+            node.description  = "Punktfunk"
+            media.class      = "Audio/Sink"
+            object.linger    = true
+            audio.position   = [ FL FR ]
+            priority.session = 2000
+        }
+    }
+]
@@ -130,6 +130,19 @@ if [[ ! -s "$DB" && -s "$SELF_DIR/kde-authorized" ]]; then
    echo "seeded RemoteDesktop grant: $DB"
 fi

+# Virtual "Punktfunk" speaker: a null sink (shipped next to this script) that the host captures +
+# streams, set default so desktop audio goes there instead of a real/AirPlay device — a headless
+# host has no speakers, and on a LAN with AirPlay gear PipeWire otherwise picks a random HomePod.
+# pipewire reads its own config at start, so on FIRST install (config not yet present) restart it
+# once to load the sink; later boots already have it. (Also disable AirPlay discovery out of band:
+# `sudo dnf remove pipewire-config-raop`.)
+PWSINK="$HOME/.config/pipewire/pipewire.conf.d/50-punktfunk-sink.conf"
+if [[ ! -s "$PWSINK" && -s "$SELF_DIR/punktfunk-sink.conf" ]]; then
+    mkdir -p "$(dirname "$PWSINK")" && cp "$SELF_DIR/punktfunk-sink.conf" "$PWSINK"
+    echo "installed Punktfunk virtual speaker → restarting pipewire to load it"
+    systemctl --user restart pipewire 2>/dev/null || true
+fi
+
 # Reach graphical-session.target so xdg-desktop-portal (which is ordered After / fails its start
 # job without it) can come up — a headless linger session never gets there on its own, and Fedora's
 # target carries RefuseManualStart=yes, so drop that in once. Without the portal, libei input fails.
@@ -20,6 +20,12 @@
 [Unit]
 Description=punktfunk GameStream + punktfunk/1 host
 After=pipewire.service punktfunk-kde-session.service
+# PartOf the kwin session (when present): the host's libei input uses the RemoteDesktop portal,
+# whose D-Bus connection goes stale if the compositor session restarts the portal under it — the
+# in-process reopen loop can't recover that, but a full restart re-establishes it. So restart the
+# host whenever the kde-session restarts. Ignored when punktfunk-kde-session isn't installed
+# (gamescope / other backends).
+PartOf=punktfunk-kde-session.service

 [Service]
 EnvironmentFile=%h/.config/punktfunk/host.env