spa-monitor(1) General Commands Manual spa-monitor(1)

# [NAME](#NAME)

spa-monitor - The PipeWire SPA device debugging utility

# [SYNOPSIS](#SYNOPSIS)

**spa-monitor** *FILE*

# [DESCRIPTION](#DESCRIPTION)

Load a SPA plugin and instantiate a device from it.

This is only useful for debugging device plugins.

# [EXAMPLES](#EXAMPLES)

**spa-monitor** /usr/lib/spa-0.2/jack/libspa-jack.so

# [AUTHORS](#AUTHORS)

The PipeWire Developers <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/issues>; PipeWire is available from <https://pipewire.org>

# [SEE ALSO](#SEE_ALSO)

[**pipewire(1)**](/man/os/pipewire/pipewire.1)

1.6.11 PipeWire

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Document: spa-monitor(1) from pipewire 1.6.11-r2 (Chainguard OS)
Source: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire