Trouble interfacing with IR remote

[karagir]

Hello,

First of all, thank-you for taking complexity out of this application!
I have no issues with BT on headless Zero 2W with wifi turned off.

However, I am interfacing IR remote receiver which uses a script to sense the keys pressed and accordingly execute command to increase, decrease, mute or unmute the volume and this is where I am facing issues.
If I run the script manually, alsamixer responds to the key pressed correctly. But when the script runs in the background, on reboot, keys pressed are generating error to the tune alsa cannot connect to pipewire and host is down.

Can you help me get to the bottom of this?
Do let me know if you need any further info and I will post it here.

Thank you so much!

[karagir]

I would like to add that just in order to get volume control in alsamixer and be able to control volume using volume up/dn/mute commands, I have additionally installed pipewire-alsa.
I hope that his has not broken anything, but without it, I cannot control volume.

Thanks!