I just had to duckduckgo it lol https://github.com/saivert/pwvucontrol
yeah this one works better
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Oh, this is being updated again. Neat.
The recommended way of installing pwvucontrol is through Flatpak.
Ugh. It's in Arch repo btw.
I haven't had problems using pavucontrol with pipewire.
This is what I use, and then in my waybar I have a volume control that lets me right click to switch between speakers and headphones as my output device, middle click to mute current output device, and use scroll wheel to increase/decrease audio of selected output.
EasyEffects is very complete if you need advanced stuff.
wiremix
It doesn't work with pipewire? I've never noticed. What symptoms
iiuc you want to add pulseaudio client to pipewire. Regardless of that, it's worth checking jamesdsp too.
amixer -q set Master playback 75%
Or whatever percentage you want.