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cec-mqtt-bridge

A HDMI-CEC / IR to MQTT bridge written in Python 3 for connecting your AV-devices to your Home Automation system. You can control and monitor power status and volume.

Features

  • CEC
    • Power control
    • Volume control
    • Power feedback
    • Relay CEC messages from HDMI to broker (RX)
    • Relay CEC messages from broker to HDMI (TX)
  • IR
    • Relay IR keypresses from IR to broker (RX)
    • Relay IR keypresses from broker to IR (TX)

Dependencies

MQTT (required)

HDMI-CEC (optional)

IR (optional)

Lirc

You need a lircrc config file. This can be generated from the lircd.conf of your lirc daemon using the script create_lircrc.py. Simply call this script with the lircd.conf path as first argument. It will print the lircrc contents to stdout and can be easily written to a file:

$ ./create_lircrc.py /etc/lirc/lircd.conf > lircrc

If you write your own lircrc file, notice that the config parameter for each configuration is what is given to the bridge. It is assumed that it is in the format <remote>,<key>. If only one value is given, the remote is expected to be omitted.

The lircrc format (that would be generated by the create_lircrc.py script) should look like:

begin
  remote = <remote-name>
  button = <key-name>
  prog = cec-ir-mqtt
  config = <remote-name>,<key-name>
end

To only get the key (without the remote name in the MQTT topic) use the format without the remote in the config:

begin
  remote = <remote-name>
  button = <key-name>
  prog = cec-ir-mqtt
  config = <key-name>
end

MQTT Topics

The bridge subscribes to the following topics:

topic body remark
prefix/cec/id/cmd on / off Turn on/off device with id id.
prefix/cec/cmd mute / unmute / voldown / volup Sends the specified command to the audio system.
prefix/cec/tx commands Send the specified commands to the CEC bus. You can specify multiple commands by separating them with a space. Example: cec/tx 15:44:41,15:45.
prefix/ir/remote/tx key Send the specified key of remote to the IR transmitter.

The bridge publishes to the following topics:

topic body remark
prefix/cec/id on / off Report power status of device with id id.
prefix/cec/rx command Notify that command was received.
prefix/ir/remote/rx key Notify that key of remote was received. You have to configure key AND remote as config in the lircrc file.
prefix/ir/rx key Notify that key was received. You have to configure key in the lircrc file. This format is used if the remote is not given in the config file.

id is the address (0-15) of the device on the CEC-bus.

Examples

  • mosquitto_pub -t media/cec/volup -m ''
  • mosquitto_pub -t media/cec/tx -m '15:44:42,15:45'

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