Switches from local and remote pulseaudio server configurations. statefully.

pulseswitch.sh

#! /bin/sh

PULSE_USER=nico

if [ "$(id -u)" != "0" ]; then
   echo "This script must be run as root" 1>&2
   exit 1
fi

function pa_remote {
  echo "Enabling remote pulseaudio server"
  sed -i.bak 's/; default-server/default-server/' /etc/pulse/client.conf
  touch /etc/pulse/remote
}

function pa_local {
  echo "Disabling remote pulseaudio server"
  sed -i.bak 's/default-server/; default-server/' /etc/pulse/client.conf
  rm /etc/pulse/remote
}

# Switch between local and remote configuration
[ -f /etc/pulse/remote  ] && pa_local || pa_remote
# Restart pulseaudio
su $PULSE_USER
pulseaudio --kill
pulseaudio -D