MQTT for MycroftAI

This is a skill written for mycroft to publish commands over an mqtt broker for home automation or any other purpose.

Commands

Currently it will publish the action to a topic built from the commands said, for example

• say hey mycroft, turn the light on and mycroft will publish on to /mycroft/turn/light/on.
• say hey mycroft, switch the tv on and mycroft will publish on to /mycroft/switch/tv/on.

Installing the skill

This skill requires paho-mqtt to be installed in your mycroft virtual enviroment.

If you already have mycroft running stop it and enter the following commands,

• to enter the virtual enviroment workon mycroft.
• now to install paho-mqtt pip install paho-mqtt.
• now you can exit the virtual enviroment by entering deactivate

If you have not yet setup mycroft then simply add paho-mqtt==1.1 to the requirments.txt file before running dev_setup.sh

Now you have paho-mqtt installed move the mycroft skills directory and download the skill.

• Move into the directory cd ~/mycroft-core/mycroft/skills
• Clone the repository git clone https://github.com/jamiehoward430/mycroft-mymqtt.git
• Rename it mv mycroft-mymqtt MyMQTT

Setup mycroft.ini

Add the following lines to your config file and adjust to your needs. currently tls is not supported, coming soon! [MyMQTTSkill]

protocol = "mqtt"

mqtt-host = "test.mosquitto.org"

mqtt-port = "1883"

mqtt-auth = "yes"

mqtt-user = "youruser"

mqtt-pass = "yourpass"

Thas it, now start mycroft and start turning your light on and off.