Roon Extension: Publish to MQTT broker

Tinkering Roon API
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I updated the Readme to explain a little bit more about how to control zones and ouputs. See if this answers your question and let me know if not.

Right now I have no plans to create an Openhab binding, but as I am implementing Openhab in my home soon, never say never :wink:

I donā€™t know if it is possible to publish images on MQTT. Something to look into.

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Tnx for fast reply! i will look into readmeā€¦ (RtFM! :wink: )
tested and command and volume works fine!
the image Q was more about how to build a ā€œpathā€ to connect a openHAB image to Roon.
like http://roonserver/api/imageid or something (i am migrating from squeezeboxserver to roon).
tnx

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It seems you can get the image from a HTTP request. See https://roonlabs.github.io/node-roon-api/RoonApiImage.html

http://IP:PORT/api/image/image_key?scale=XXX&width=XXX&height=XXX&format=XXX

Never tried this though.

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Hi that probably worksā€¦ but i found an easier and ā€œflashier wayā€ http://roonIP:9100/display/ in a frame in habpanel looks great and auto updates with nowplaying. in combination with MQTT for control it will do. Thanks for your help.

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Hi. The MQTT extension is now crashing for meā€¦ sometimes several times a dayā€¦ restarting the extension works but its really annoying. Running on windows on a machine with really low load. let me know how i can help to fault findā€¦ logs or anything. running roon extension manager 0.11.5 and MQTT extension 0.1
the error text: ā€œProcess terminated:roon-extension-mqtt(1)ā€
kind regs

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Released version 1.0 today. New features include MQTT authentication, TLS options and a Dockerfile.
I will update the Readme on the github page ā€˜soonā€™ :wink: .

Docker is also available from Docker Hub.
Start the extension using docker run fjgalesloot/roon-extension-mqtt or similar.

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For troubleshooting you could try enabling the debug (new menu option in version 1.0) and run the extension manually. Start ā€œnode .ā€ in the extension folder. You should be able to see (debug) output from the extension. Post the last several lines here and we can try to find a solution.

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I added a Dockerfile with Version 1.0. If you are familiar with running docker and able to do this on your NAS, maybe this is an option for you.

I will try to make time to publish a container image to docker hub soon for convenience.

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Nice!!! I will give it a try after my holidays :slight_smile:

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New beta version available!

Added the option to start a specific item in the library by implementing the RoonBrowseApi. See the github (development branch) Readme for the syntax.

Github: https://github.com/fjgalesloot/roon-extension-mqtt/tree/development
Docker: fjgalesloot/roon-extension-mqtt:beta

I have just finished this functionality and am testing now in my own setup. Use at your own risk :slight_smile:.

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Thank you Floris Jan. Iā€™m using roon-extension-mqtt, it works perfectly to retrieve ā€œnow playingā€ data and to control transport (play / pause etc ā€¦). Bravo !

However, using your beta development version with BrowseApi support I canā€™t manage to launch playlist or web radio station (iā€™ve tried with topic and message from your examples):

publish to roon/[zone-name]/internet_radio the message containing radio title starts playing the internet radio station

publish to roon/[zone-name]/playlists the message containing playlist title starts the play list (Play Now)

Any insight on what is going wrong ?
Any change on ROON API ?

PS: My setup: Node-red (mqtt in/out nodes) and mosquitto broker.

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Hi volpone, I donā€™t think there is a change in the Roon API that breaks this. At my place it still works like a charm every morning waking me up with the preferred radio channel.

What is the exact topic and message you publish to?

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Hi Florian, using your extension 2.0.0b. HQPlayer is my zone name:

  • OK when i publish to topic: roon/HQPlayer/command
    message; play (or any other transport command as a string)

Extension logs:

received mqtt packet: topic=roon/HQPlayer/command, message=play

  • KO when i publish to topic: roon/HQPlayer/internet_radio
    message: RMC (RMC, for example, is an internet live radio station name, as displayed in ROON UI)

Nothing in your extension logs.
Iā€™m probably using wrong topic / message or misunderstood your usage examples ?

Everything else seems rock solid. Again, thank you for you excellent work. Your extension allowed me to build quite easily a customized ā€œnow playingā€ web app using Node-red and Mosquitto !
Regards

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Aha. The readme was missing the /browse/ part of the topic.
Could you try to publish to topic

roon/HQPlayer/browse/internet_radio

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Bingo ! Thankā€™s a lot.

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Version 2.2.0-beta is available now.

This release adds some new functionality to the extension:

  • mute / unmute of outputs
  • unmute on volume set
  • add output to zone (grouping)
  • remove output from zone (ungroup)
  • configurable mqtt-root

NOTE: There has been some changes to the MQTT topics to confirm to MQTT standards. Illegal characters in zone and output names. See Readme for details.

See the github page: https://github.com/fjgalesloot/roon-extension-mqtt/tree/development

Would love to hear your feedback!

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Hey Floris,

Iā€™m trying to get your plugin installed but I fail.
After I git clone this into /home/pi and go through
npm install
the next command
nodejs .
fails with
pi@raspberrypi:~/roon-extension-mqtt $ nodejs .
-bash: nodejs: command not found

Any thoughts?

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try node . instead of nodejs .

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This worked, thanks.
But to get this into systemd I have to change the working directory in the .service file, right?
The extension is running on my RaspPi with runs my Mosquitto and Pimatic Server

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Yes, thatā€™s correct.