Settings sync

Back up and share your audio settings via Rocksky.

Rockbox Daemon can sync your audio settings — equalizer, crossfade, ReplayGain, and tone controls — with Rocksky, a social layer built on the AT Protocol (Bluesky). Once pushed, your settings are reachable from any device you own, and can optionally be made public so others can pull them by handle.

Prerequisites

• rockboxd installed and on your $PATH
• A Bluesky account (used as the Rocksky identity)

Step 1 — Log in

rockboxd login your.handle.bsky.social

This opens the Rocksky authorisation page in your browser. After you approve access, a local callback server on port 6996 captures the token and writes it to ~/.config/rockbox.org/token. You only need to do this once per machine.

Verify the login succeeded:

rockboxd whoami

Step 2 — Push your settings

Configure your audio settings (settings.toml, or via the web/desktop UI), then upload them:

rockboxd settings push

The following sections of ~/.config/rockbox.org/settings.toml are uploaded:

Section	Fields synced
Equalizer	eq_enabled, eq_precut, eq_band_settings (cutoff / gain / Q per band)
Crossfade	crossfade, fade_in_delay, fade_in_duration, fade_out_delay, fade_out_duration, fade_out_mixmode
ReplayGain	replaygain_settings.type, replaygain_settings.preamp, replaygain_settings.noclip
Tone	bass, treble, balance, channel_config

All other fields (music_dir, audio_output, etc.) are never uploaded.

Step 3 — Pull your settings on another device

Log in on the second device, then pull:

rockboxd settings pull

This merges the downloaded values into the local settings.toml without touching any other fields. Restart rockboxd to apply them.

Sharing settings publicly

Any user’s settings can be pulled without logging in by passing their DID or Bluesky handle:

# by handle
rockboxd settings pull --did alice.bsky.social

# by DID
rockboxd settings pull --did did:plc:abc123xyz

This is useful for sharing EQ presets or replication of a tuned listening profile across devices owned by different accounts.

Token management

File	Contents
~/.config/rockbox.org/token	Bearer token (plain text)

To log out, delete the token file:

rm ~/.config/rockbox.org/token

Troubleshooting

“Session expired or invalid” — the stored token has been revoked or expired. Run rockboxd login <handle> again.

“No settings file” on settings push — pull first to create the file, or configure settings.toml manually and run push again.

Port 6996 already in use — the login callback server cannot bind. Stop whatever is listening on that port and retry.