USB DAC not recognized

[JEffnot]

Hi there, I wanted to connect my Headphone to my USB DAC with my Xiaomi Mi A2. DAC is not recognized by UT. Are external devices not supported?

[arubislander]

@jeffnot UT uses the same (build of the) kernel that Android on your device came with. This is to ensure all the on board peripherals have a chance of working. Often these kernels do not include support for external audio devices over USB.
But if the kernel and hardware support it, in principle it should 'just work''

[JEffnot]

@arubislander thx for your fast reply. On my Android I have to activate OTG to get the DAC working. Is there a similar way on UT?

[JEffnot]

I can find my DAC with "aplay -l"

And I can load my DAC with "pactl load-module module-alsa-sink device=hw:2"

Where 2 is the index of my USB DAC.

Now I got Sound!

How can i make this permanent, or maybe hotplug?

[here_is_mike]

Hey I tried the following:

make / writable.

check Vendor ID and Product ID with after you have plugged in the USB DAC :

dmesg | grep Vendor

for me
=>
"New USB device found, idVendor=05ac, idProduct=110a, bcdDevice=26.50"
(it is a: Apple, Inc. USB-C to 3.5mm Headphone Jack Adapter)
(for another product with another Vendor and Product ID icould also get another DAC work)

in cd /etc/udev/rules.d create:

# USB-DAC plug in
ATTRS{idVendor}=="05ac", ATTRS{idProduct}=="110a", ACTION=="add", RUN+="/usr/local/bin/load_dac_module.sh"

# USB-DAC unplug
ATTRS{idVendor}=="05ac", ATTRS{idProduct}=="110a", ACTION=="remove", RUN+="/usr/local/bin/unload_dac_module.sh"

reload udev rules:

sudo systemctl daemon-reload

sudo udevadm trigger

check aplay -l
for me:
=>
card 1 and Device 0

in /usr/local/bin/ create the scripts:
1.
/usr/local/bin/load_dac_module.sh

#!/bin/bash
sleep 1
sudo -u phablet pactl --server "unix:/run/user/32011/pulse/native" load-module module-alsa-sink device=hw:1,0

/usr/local/bin/unload_dac_module.sh

#!/bin/bash

# search for loaded module


sleep 1
USER="phablet"
#USERID from phablet= "32011
PULSE_SERVER="unix:/run/user/32011/pulse/native"

MODULE_ID=$(sudo -u $USER pactl --server "$PULSE_SERVER" list short modules | grep module-alsa-sink | awk '{print $1}'   )

# unload PulseAudio-Module , if it was loaded before
if [ -n "$MODULE_ID" ]; then
#    pactl unload-module $MODULE_ID
sleep 1
sudo -u phablet pactl --server "unix:/run/user/32011/pulse/native" unload-module $MODULE_ID
fi

make the files writable:

sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/load_dac_module.sh
sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/unload_dac_module.sh

unplug USB DAC
reboot
(if the USB DAC was plugged at boot it seem that the DAC does not work than.)
on a FP4 it took nearly 4 sec till the sound comes from the DAC

Could somebody test and verify it?

PS:
this helped me:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PulseAudio/Examples#Automatically_switch_audio_to_HDMI