Dynamic Detection of Reconnected Microphone in PyAudio

[MolianWH]

Hello,

I'm encountering a challenge with PyAudio where it fails to detect a microphone that's reconnected after being disconnected. The issue persists even after reinitializing the PyAudio instance. Specifically, when the microphone is unplugged and then plugged back in during the program's runtime, PyAudio does not update its device list to include the reconnected microphone. This results in errors such as "Invalid number of channels" when trying to access the microphone.

Here's a brief overview of the problem:

Environment: Win11 python3.9
PyAudio Version: 0.2.13
Issue: PyAudio does not dynamically update the list of audio devices upon reconnection of the microphone.
Current Behavior: The microphone, once disconnected and reconnected, is not recognized by PyAudio without restarting the entire program.
Expected Behavior: PyAudio should update its device list and allow access to the microphone after it's reconnected.
I've tried the following:

Reinitializing the PyAudio instance after detecting the disconnection.
Creating a new PyAudio instance to refresh the device list.
Using a loop to periodically check for device availability.
Despite these efforts, the reconnected microphone is only recognized after restarting the program. I would greatly appreciate any insights or suggestions on how to resolve this issue.

Thank you in advance for your assistance!

[CristiFati]

Unfortunately, now I'm booted into Ubuntu, so there's nothing (debugging) I can do at this point. You could post a question on SO. I just pulled latest changes from upstream, so you might give another try.

[alanjoshua]

@MolianWH Were you able to find a solution for this? I am facing the same issue too