Raspberry Pi Audio Project

Aloha from Hawaii! I am looking for someone that can help me with a project I need done very quickly! The project is that I'm making a Raspberry Pi that will do some automatic testing on an online video stream as well as playing the stream on the hdmi output with audio. I have a Raspberry Pi that's currently setup to automatically play the online video stream all the time. I'm also using Node-Red to do some of the testing for the video that needs to be done. now, I need to get the audio part working. The audio does play fine on the HDMI output but I can't figure out how to do any kind of testing on the audio.. The biggest test I need to be able to do is if there's audio present... like, if it's silent for more then 5 seconds or something... I thought I might be able to use the silence detection that's part of SoX but I can't seem to get anything to work on it, not even the audio loopback.. Thanks for reading this, if you have any questions just bid and include your questions and comments in your bid and if it looks like you'll be able to do the job based on your bid, I'll initiate chat with you and we can discus it in more detail. If your bid looks like a cut/paste bid that doesn't correctly address what I've put in here, then I will mark it as spam. Please start with the word "Raspi" and that'll make me look even harder at your bid because I'll know you actually read this rambling request for bids... For someone who really knows linux, I don't think this'll take very long to get working so I made this a micro project, but please bid what you think it's worth to do and I'll also consider that.