Trying to set up a self-run app on my Raspberry Pi that runs a Gonk droid.

I’ve installed VLC to be able to play the sounds.

When I try to run the app with sudo (I’ve been told I need this ability to get the python app to run as an autostart script at boot), I get this error message

$ sudo python GonkRunVLC.py
[010209e8] vlcpulse audio output error: PulseAudio server connection failure: Connection refused
[01051b50] vlcpulse audio output error: PulseAudio server connection failure: Connection refused

Making the assumption it is a rights issue, can someone clue me in?

When I run it without sudo it runs just fine!

The audio files are one sub directory below the app….

Ex: /home/me/programs/sounds/sound.mp3
Ex: python script is in on /home/me/programs/

~/my_programs $ python GonkRunVLC.py   (Runs)

~/my_programs $ sudo python GonkRunVLC.py
[010209e8] vlcpulse audio output error: PulseAudio server connection failure: Connection refused
[01051b50] vlcpulse audio output error: PulseAudio server connection failure: Connection refused