Description

This is a python program for controlling Dante network audio devices (and possibly others in the future). It's early, so expect things to break or switches to change. Use this at your own risk; it's not ready for anything other than a test environment and could make the devices behave unexpectedly. The first goal is to do everything that Dante Controller can do that would be useful for control of the devices from a command-line interface or within scripts.

For more information, check out the gearspace discussion.

Features

Current

AVIO input/output gain control
Add/remove subscriptions
CLI
Cross-platform foreground daemon plus installable boot service
Device lock/unlock through the native Rust protocol core
Display active subscriptions, Rx and Tx channels, devices names and addresses, subscription status
JSON output
Set device latency, sample rate, encoding
Set/reset channel names, device names
mDNS device discovery

Installation

To install from PyPI:

uv tool install netaudio

Or with pip/pipx:

pip install netaudio

To install from a clone (requires Python 3.9+ and a Rust toolchain, since the native core is compiled from source):

uv sync
uv run netaudio

Arch Linux

To install from AUR, build the package with aur/netaudio.

Usage

Run netaudio if installed globally, or uv run netaudio from a clone.

Run tests:

uv lock --check
uv run --python 3.9 --no-project python -m compileall -q packages/netaudio/src/netaudio
cargo test --manifest-path packages/netaudio-core/Cargo.toml
uv run pytest -q

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