Differences between version 4 and previous revision of UdevSounds.

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Newer page: version 4 Last edited on Saturday, 27 August 2011 9:24:21 by CyberLeo Revert
Older page: version 3 Last edited on Saturday, 27 August 2011 9:08:56 by CyberLeo Revert
@@ -6,9 +6,9 @@
 /etc/udev/sounds/hw.sh: 
 <verbatim> 
 #!/bin/bash 
  
-#logger -t "hw.sh" "$(whoami) Honoring ${ACTION} for ${SUBSYSTEM}...
+#logger -t "hw.sh" "$(whoami) Sounding ' ${ACTION}' for ' ${SUBSYSTEM}'
 add="/etc/udev/sounds/hw_insert.wav" 
 rem="/etc/udev/sounds/hw_remove.wav" 
  
 [ "${SUBSYSTEM}" == "usb" ] || exit 0 

version 4

/etc/udev.rules/00-bling.rules:

RUN+="/etc/udev/sounds/hw.sh"

/etc/udev/sounds/hw.sh:

#!/bin/bash

#logger -t "hw.sh" "$(whoami) Sounding '${ACTION}' for '${SUBSYSTEM}'"
add="/etc/udev/sounds/hw_insert.wav"
rem="/etc/udev/sounds/hw_remove.wav"

[ "${SUBSYSTEM}" == "usb" ] || exit 0

case "${ACTION}" in
add)     snd="${add}" ;;
remove)  snd="${rem}" ;;
*)       ;;
esac

[ "${snd}" ] && /usr/bin/aplay -q "${snd}" &

Note that aplay likely won't work if you have a sound manager like esd squatting on the sound devices, so set it to give them up after a while.

Also, sound managers like esd won't work because they disallow connections from sources that don't match credentials

Salt and pepper to taste...