MPD binding - vpjuslin/openhab GitHub Wiki
Documentation of the MPD binding Bundle
Music Player Daemon(MPD) is a flexible, powerful, server-side application for playing music. Through plugins and libraries it can play a variety of sound files while being controlled by its network protocol. By help of the openHAB MPD binding you can e.g. start/stop playing music in specific rooms / on various channels and change volume.
For installation of the binding, please see Wiki page Bindings.
In order to bind an item to a MPD, you need to provide configuration settings. The easiest way to do so is to add some binding information in your item file (in the folder configurations/items`). The syntax for the Exec binding configuration string is explained here:
mpd="<openHAB-command>:<player-id>:<player-commandLine>[,<openHAB-command>:<player-id>:<player-commandLine>][,...]"
where the parts in [] are optional.
The Player-Id corresponds whith the configuration in openhab.cfg where one has to configure the MPDs:
mpd:<player-id>.host=[host]
mpd:<player-id>.port=[port]
Here are some examples of valid binding configuration strings:
mpd="ON:bath:play, OFF:bath:stop"
mpd="INCREASE:bath:volume_increase, DECREASE:bath:volume_decrease"
As a result, your lines in the items file might look like the following:
Switch Mpd_Bathroom_StartStop "Start/Stop" (Bathroom) { mpd="ON:bad:play, OFF:bad:stop" }
New features coming in 1.5
Support for track names was added and also ability to set exact volume for dimmer items (previously only increase/decrease actions were available)
Example items:
String CurrentTrack "Current track [%s]" { mpd="TITLE:bad:tracktitle" }
String CurrentArtist "Current artist [%s]" { mpd="ARTIST:bad:trackartist" }
String ConcatInfo "Now playing [%s]"
Switch Mpd_Bathroom_StartStop "Start/Stop" (Bathroom) { mpd="ON:bad:play, OFF:bad:stop" }
Switch Mpd_Bathroom_NextPrev "Track control" (Bathroom) { mpd="ON:bad:next, OFF:bad:prev" }
Dimmer Mpd_Bathroom_VolumeControl "Volume [%d%%]" (Bathroom) { mpd="INCREASE:bad:volume_increase, DECREASE:bad:volume_decrease, PERCENT:bad:volume" }
Sample rules (to concatenate artist and title):
rule "concat"
when
Item CurrentTrack received update or
Item CurrentArtist received update
the
ConcatInfo.postUpdate(CurrentTrack.state.toString + " / " + CurrentArtist.state.toString)
end
Example sitemap:
Text item=CurrentTrack
Text item=CurrentArtist
Text item=ConcatInfo
Switch item=Mpd_Bathroom_StartStop mappings=[OFF="Pause", ON="Play"]
Switch item=Mpd_Bathroom_NextPrev mappings=[OFF="Previous", ON="Next"]
Slider item=Mpd_Bathroom_VolumeControl