Mopiqtt 1.0.1

Control mopidy music server through MQTT broker

Based on mopidy-mqtt

Mopiqtt

MQTT interface for Mopidy music server. Allows easy integration with Node Red or any MQTT client.

Installation

Using pip:

pip install Mopiqtt

Configuration

Add the following section to your mopidy's configuration file: /etc/mopidy/mopidy.conf

[mopiqtt]
host = <mqtt broker address>
port = 1883
topic = mopidy
username =
password =

Note: Remember to also supply username and password options if your MQTT broker requires authentication. If not, just leave blank the two values.

Note: Restart Mopidy with sudo service mopidy restart

To check Mopidy log run sudo tail -f /var/log/mopidy/mopidy.log

Features

• Sends information about Mopidy state on any change
  • Playback status
  • Volume
  • Track description
  • Playlists list
• Reacts to control commands
  • Playback control
  • Tracklist control
  • Volume control
  • Load & play a playlist
  • Request playlists list

MQTT protocol

Topics

Default top level topic: mopidy.

Control topic: mopidy/cmnd.

Information topic mopidy/stat.

Messages to subscribe to (mopidy/stat/<msg>)

Kind	Subtopic	Values
Playback State	/plstate	paused / stop / playing
Volume	/vol	<level:int>
Current track	/trk	<artist:str>;<title:str>;<album> or
List of playlists	/plists	<array of playlists name:uri>
Track Artwork (*)	/artw	<url of image to download>

(*) Published after any track started playback

Messages to publish to (mopidy/cmnd/<msg>)

Kind	Subtopic	Values
Playback control	/plb	play / stop / pause / resume / toggle / prev / next
Volume control	/vol	=<int> or -<int> or +<int>
Clear queue	/clr
Add to queue	/add	<uri:str>
Load and play playlist	/pload	<uri:str>
Request list of playlists	/plist

Contribute

You can contribute to Mopiqtt by: