No.  I was not aware this was necessary before removing pulseaudio.   I assume this command could be added to my op25 startup that get called from rc.local?    One additional question.   I have built your branch of op25 on Debian 8.9 and it compiles and works fine.   The problem I have is that I can’t get rc.local in Debian 8.9 to run my startup yet the startup shell works if invoked manually from the local console (terminal) or remotely via ssh.    I did verify that rc.local is executable, so I don’t know what’s up with that in Debian 8.9.

Thank you!

Bill