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title: "Helvum"
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category: "Audio and video"
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tagline: "A patchbay for PipeWire: see and rewire how audio and video flow between apps."
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source: "Flathub"
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package: "org.pipewire.Helvum"
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code: "https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/helvum"
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---
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## What it is
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Helvum is a graphical patchbay for PipeWire, the system that handles sound and video on modern Linux desktops. It shows every app, microphone, speaker and camera as a box with ports, and the connections between them as lines. You drag between ports to connect them, for example to send one app's audio into a recording app, or to route a microphone to two places at once.
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## Why it's here
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- **See your audio.** When sound goes to the wrong place, the graph shows why.
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- **Custom routing.** Connect apps and devices in ways the Sound settings can't.
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## On CoreDesktop
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CoreDesktop installs Helvum as a Flatpak from Flathub. Open it from the app grid. `update` keeps it current along with your other Flatpaks.
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