# Connection refused (1) error when using pulsesink
**URL:** https://discourse.mopidy.com/t/connection-refused-1-error-when-using-pulsesink/1133
**Category:** Misc
**Created:** [February 23, 2016, 8:44pm UTC](https://discourse.mopidy.com/t/connection-refused-1-error-when-using-pulsesink/1133 "2016-02-23T20:44:41Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@StanSvec](https://discourse.mopidy.com/u/StanSvec)
#### Post date: [February 23, 2016, 8:44pm UTC](https://discourse.mopidy.com/t/connection-refused-1-error-when-using-pulsesink/1133/1 "2016-02-23T20:44:41Z")
Hi everyone,
My setup is Raspberry Pi 2 with Raspbian operating system. Together with Mopidy running as a service I also use Kodi on that device. Unfortunately Kodi cannot play sounds or has another issues when Mopidy is running and both are using Alsa output. So I installed pulseaudio to cope with this problem. But when I set:
> ```
> [audio]
> output = pulsesink
>
> ```
in mopidy.conf then I cannot play anything with Mopidy. The following error messages are in mopidy log:
> ```
> 2016-02-23 20:39:16,285 ERROR [484:MainThread] mopidy.audio.gst: GStreamer error: gst-resource-error-quark: Failed to connect: Connection refused (1)
> 2016-02-23 20:39:16,289 WARNING [484:Audio-2] mopidy.audio.actor: Setting GStreamer state to GST_STATE_PLAYING failed
>
> ```
I also found this in /var/log/messages, but don’t know whether it is somehow related:
> pulseaudio[1798]: [pulseaudio] server-lookup.c: Unable to contact D-Bus: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NotSupported: Unable to autolaunch a dbus-daemon without a $DISPLAY for X11
> pulseaudio[1798]: [pulseaudio] main.c: Unable to contact D-Bus: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NotSupported: Unable to autolaunch a dbus-daemon without a $DISPLAY for X11
Kodi is able to play sound using pulseaudio flawlessly. For any help will be very grateful!
Many thanks,
Stan
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### Author:  [@StanSvec](https://discourse.mopidy.com/u/StanSvec)
#### Post date: [February 26, 2016, 12:01am UTC](https://discourse.mopidy.com/t/connection-refused-1-error-when-using-pulsesink/1133/2 "2016-02-26T00:01:30Z")
Finally I found the solution here: [https://github.com/mopidy/mopidy/issues/954](https://github.com/mopidy/mopidy/issues/954) in post from trygveaa. Added load-module module-native-protocol-tcp auth-ip-acl=127.0.0.1 into /etc/pulse/default.pa and output = pulsesink server=127.0.0.1 into mopidy config.
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### Author:  [@kingosticks](https://discourse.mopidy.com/u/kingosticks)
#### Post date: [February 26, 2016, 12:34am UTC](https://discourse.mopidy.com/t/connection-refused-1-error-when-using-pulsesink/1133/3 "2016-02-26T00:34:17Z")
For anyone else landing here, the Mopidy documentation at [https://docs.mopidy.com/en/latest/service/#configure-pulseaudio](https://docs.mopidy.com/en/latest/service/#configure-pulseaudio) should be your first port of call.
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### Author:  [@StanSvec](https://discourse.mopidy.com/u/StanSvec)
#### Post date: [February 26, 2016, 2:03am UTC](https://discourse.mopidy.com/t/connection-refused-1-error-when-using-pulsesink/1133/4 "2016-02-26T02:03:39Z")
Thanks for the link! I couldn’t find this page using google search with mopidy and pulseaudio keywords.
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### Author:  [@ayoungcoder](https://discourse.mopidy.com/u/ayoungcoder)
#### Post date: [March 10, 2017, 3:48pm UTC](https://discourse.mopidy.com/t/connection-refused-1-error-when-using-pulsesink/1133/5 "2017-03-10T15:48:18Z")
> [@StanSvec](#):
>
> module-native-protocol-tcp auth-ip-acl=127.0.0.1
funny with that setup i got the exact same error yes, i also put it in my mopidy conf
any other fixes?
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### Author:  [@philippkeller](https://discourse.mopidy.com/u/philippkeller)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2017, 2:21pm UTC](https://discourse.mopidy.com/t/connection-refused-1-error-when-using-pulsesink/1133/6 "2017-05-24T14:21:58Z")
I also had the error when adding the configs into pulseaudio and mopidy as described in the doc.
What finally worked for me:
- install paprefs
- enable network access (without auth) for localhost
- restart pulseaudio with `sudo killall pulseaudio` and `pulseaudio --start`