Hello!
I am using Pd on a raspberry pi 3 and have recently started to make some new projects.
I have an arduino leonardo acting as a usb midi device, which is working perfectly with the pi and a puredata patch.
The only problem is, I have to configure the midi and audio everytime I start up Pd.
That means that I have to select the right options for my sound card, and select alsa midi, then confirm to make 1 input and 1 output port, Every. Single. Time.
I know that this can be done by changing the text in .pdsettings. But there is a scarcity of how to configure alsa midi in pdsettings. Also I am very new to this, and don't know much about puredata..
It would be great if you would guide me in the right direction.

Ps- I looked at the commands at https://puredata.info/docs/faq/commandline
But couldn't get those commands to work.

@flight453 You can set them from the patch with a message triggered with a [loadbang]....... audio_midi.zip
The bit at the bottom right of the audio patch works for vanilla and extended.
David.

Hello.
Thanks for providing the patch.
Sadly, this doesn't work for me. I still have to set the midi to alsa from oss(default). I also have to set the number of input and outputs of the midi (in my case 1 in and 1 out).
I need it to be already configured because the final product of my project won't be hooked up to a keyboard, mouse or monitor at the time. (I'm making a standalone drum kit)
Thank you!!!

@flight453 You could look at the messages sent to Pd when you select alsa and alsamidi in your settings. Connect a [print] directly to [r pd] to see all messages.
Then send those messages to Pd with a [s pd] from your patch as it starts.
(ping and autopatch arrive frequently and are not helpful for what you are looking for)
If there are no messages, which is unlikely but I cannot test...... then.......

In windows you would edit a shortcut to the Pd executable or create a batch file to start Pd...... and add the command line switches to that.
The way I know for Linux is to use a (dot)desktop file in \RASPBERRYPI3\home\home\pi.config\autostart (that is my path.... you need to find your (dot)config folder).

I use this to start x11vnc....... this is the contents of x11vnc.desktop in my .config folder.
It runs automatically when the desktop has loaded

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Type=Application
Name=X11VNC
Comment=
Exec=x11vnc -forever -loop -passwd $££%%Xnotreal -display :0 -ultrafilexfer
StartupNotify=false
Terminal=false
Hidden=false

So I imagine you would change the contents to something like.......

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Type=Application
Name=Pd
Comment=
Exec=Pd -alsa -alsamidi -midiindev 0 -midioutdev 0 -audioindev n -audiooutdev n -inchannels n -outchannels n
StartupNotify=false
Terminal=false
Hidden=false

Where "n" is the number........ and I am pretty certain always starts at 0 for devices but "inchannels" is the actual quantity.... 2 for two channels.
Adding any other switches you might need to the "Exec" line..... for realtime audio, audio buffer size, sample rate etc.
Alsa should already have loaded before the desktop I think.
Switches......... http://puredata.info/docs/faq/commandline

Of course you only absolutely need to set the devices in the command line as you can use the dialogs in my first post to change channels etc.
David.