Toggle Ecasound Verbose Engine Status Updates

This article covers how to control and toggle verbose engine status updates within Ecasound Interactive Mode (IAM). It details the primary commands used to enable or disable continuous status output during audio processing, as well as the commands required to query immediate verbose diagnostic reports from the engine.

In Ecasound Interactive Mode, periodic verbose engine status updates are toggled using the int-set-output-status-interval command. Because Ecasound treats status reporting as an interval-based routine, setting this parameter determines whether updates are actively printed to the console:

• Enable status updates: Enter int-set-output-status-interval [seconds] (for example, int-set-output-status-interval 1 to output updates once every second).
• Disable status updates: Enter int-set-output-status-interval 0 to turn continuous engine status reports off.

To check the current update frequency setting, use:

int-output-status-interval

On-Demand Verbose Diagnostics: dump-status

If you require an immediate, detailed report of the audio processing graph rather than continuous streaming updates, use:

dump-status

The dump-status command outputs a comprehensive diagnostic dump directly to the terminal, detailing active chain setups, inputs, outputs, operators, and current buffer states.

Basic State Queries: engine-status

To retrieve only the high-level operating state of the engine (such as running, stopped, or error) without detailed stream information, use:

engine-status

Summary of Usage

1. Launch Ecasound in interactive mode using ecasound -c.
2. Start the processing engine with start.
3. Toggle continuous verbose status reporting on by typing int-set-output-status-interval 1.
4. Toggle continuous reporting off by typing int-set-output-status-interval 0.
5. Request a full snapshot at any point by typing dump-status.