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Control your PC or homeserver with homeassistant or any other MQTT enabled home automation system.
pc2mqtt run on your pc or homeserver and exposes its state and actions via MQTT.
- Power sensor
- Shutdown button
- Reboot button
Installation of pc2mqtt works a little different on windows vs linux.
- Download the latest binary from the releases
- Setup a systemd service running the binary on start
- Thats it
For windows pc2mqtt uses thewindows-service-wrapper.
- Download the latest windows zip archive from the releases
- Unzip it to a directory of your choice
- In cmd run
pc2mqtt.exe installandpc2mqtt.exe startto install and start it as a windows service
Explaination:wrapped.exe is the actual binary. pc2mqtt.exe is the windows service wrapper which installs the service using the xml config file. For more info have a look at thewindows-service-wrapper.
When first starting the application, aconfig.json will be created right next to it. It looks like this:
{"device_id":"63fbeebb-f107-4903-ab36-6104b9d802b0","device_name":"MY-PC-HOSTNAME","mqtt": {"host":"<YOUR MQTT HOST>","port":1883,"username":"<MQTT USER>","password":"<MQTT PASSWORD>","auto_discovery_prefix":"homeassistant" },"debug_mode":false}| Parameter | Description | Default Value |
|---|---|---|
device_id | A generated id to identify your device. | Generated. Can be changed |
device_name | How your device will be named in eg. homeassistant. | Defaults to hostname |
mqtt.host | Your MQTT hostname eg. 192.168.0.10. | |
mqtt.port | Your MQTT port. | 1883 |
mqtt.username | Your MQTT username. | |
mqtt.password | Your MQTT password. | |
mqtt.auto_discovery_prefix | The prefix used for the auto discovery messages. | homeassistant |
debug_mode | Enabled debug mode. Prints more logs and adds a "test" button. | false |
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Small go program to control and monitor your PC with MQTT