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I am building an application where the sound needs to be over the 3.5mm jack and video over HDMI.

However, sometimes it does send the sound over HDMI and 3.5mm jack. And sometimes it just uses HDMI only.

How can I force the sound always goes over 3.5mm jack (I do not care if the sound gets duplicated over HDMI, I will turn of the TV sound)?

Thankyou, Rick

Rick
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use rasp-config to force sound in 3.5 jack. To do so use below commannd

sudo raspi-config

and then select 

9 Advanced Options             Configure advanced settings

and then select

A9 Audio        Force audio out through HDMI or 3.5mm jack

and finally

1 Force 3.5mm ('headphone') jack
rajesh6115
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For those looking to achieve the same result from the command line, here is the extract from the documentation:

COMMAND LINE

The following command, entered in the command line, will switch the audio output to HDMI:

amixer cset numid=3 2

Here the output is being set to 2, which is HDMI. Setting the output to 1 switches to analogue (headphone jack). The default setting is 0 which is automatic.

Daniel Da Cunha
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For Raspberry Pi 4, an update to @rajesh6115's answer:

use rasp-config to force sound in 3.5 jack. To do so use below commannd

sudo raspi-config

and then select

1 System Options       Configure system settings

and then select

S2 Audio             Select audio out through HDMI or 3.5mm jack

and finally

1 Headphones
Morgoth
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