Load at startup

[StefanRacoveanu]

I would love to see a feature to automatically load NoiseTorch at startup

[lawl]

Hey!

Unfortunately this is currently unlikely to happen because the module currently consumes CPU even if no application is using the microphone. See this issue which in turn filed an issue on PulseAudio.

I'm not super opposed to it, if enough people want this. But it's something you can already achieve by configuring pulseaudio manually as described here.

[legendofmiracles]

Couldn't you easily check, if there is a recording application (several other apps already did this with pulse, e.g. palva and kmixer), and only then activate noise cancellation?

[lawl]

no, because a lot of applications require the virtual microphone to be present before they start, otherwise they don't see it as they query the device list only once on start unfortunately.

[lawl]

With 0.7.0-beta this could now be achieved by using commandline options and placing them in your desktop environments auto start.

Would this be sufficient as a solution, or did you have something else in mind?

[StefanRacoveanu]

With 0.7.0-beta this could now be achieved by using commandline options and placing them in your desktop environments auto start.

Would this be sufficient as a solution, or did you have something else in mind?

Yes, this is enough, thank you for improving the app, also I would like to give you some feedback:

I think it is more intuitive to give the device id to the -i parameter(noisetorch -i <DEVICE_ID), rather than noisetorch -s <DEVICE_ID> -i

And also I can't run the app with sudo

[lawl]

Yeah that may may been better, but too late to change now.

As for not being able to run it with sudo, that's because it's only in your users PATH and not in root's PATH. You'll need to specify the absolute path.

However, since the original issue here is resolved, I'll now close this.

[Razer0123]

Hello, so what is the recommended command to run this automatically on boot?

[lawl]

There's a wiki entry here: https://github.com/lawl/NoiseTorch/wiki/Start-automatically-with-Systemd

[lawl]

I cannot provide support for people's individual system configuration, sorry.

[lnicola]

FWIW, I'm using NoiseTorch with PipeWire and it doesn't seem to be burning any CPU when no application is recording.

[qualk]

Yes, same here

[RyuunosukeDS3]

Can someone give me some help? I Have my startup config like this:

[Unit]
Description=Noisetorch Noise Cancelling
Requires=sys-devices-pci0000:00-0000:00:08.1-0000:0a:00.3-usb3-3\x2d1-3\x2d1:1.0-sound-card1-controlC1.device
After=sys-devices-pci0000:00-0000:00:08.1-0000:0a:00.3-usb3-3\x2d1-3\x2d1:1.0-sound-card1-controlC1.device
# Depending on if you're using pulseaudio or pipewire, uncomment the correct line
After=pulseaudio.service
# After=pipewire.service

[Service]
Type=simple
RemainAfterExit=yes
ExecStart=/home/ryuunsuke/.local/bin/noisetorch -i -s "alsa_input.usb-BLUE_MICROPHONE_Blue_Snowball_201306-00.mono-fallback" -t 95
ExecStop=/home/ryuunsuke/.local/bin/noisetorch -u

[Install]
WantedBy=default.target

But it exits with

PulseAudio source not found: alsa_input.usb-BLUE_MICROPHONE_Blue_Snowball_201306-00.mono-fallback

I set the device as required, so I'm not sure why it won't load.

[lnicola]

@RyuunosukeDS3 does systemctl --user restart noisetorch help? I've had issues with it not working after resume (probably because the microphone was gone).

If not, does it actually work if you run that command from a terminal?

[RyuunosukeDS3]

Running it manually does work, yes!

[lnicola]

I'm not sure why that would happen (surely your USB microphone is initialized by the time you log in?).

[RyuunosukeDS3]

I'm not sure why that would happen (surely your USB microphone is initialized by the time you log in?).

I don't know if there is a reason it wouldn't, tbh... I'm fairly sure it is...

[Razer0123]

I had to add a delay to make mine work, but suddenly stopped again