Play music via your Mopidy Server

About

Mopidy is an extensible stand alone music server handling music libraries and remote services alike. This skill interfaces with the server through the REST api.

Mycroft Setup

Mycroft needs to be pointed to the mopidy server, this is easily done using the skill settings page on Mycroft-Home. By default it will try to connect to a mopidy server on localhost.

Mopidy Setup

I recommend using the official mopidy install guide to get the software for your specific system.

In addition to the base installation of mopidy the skill REQUIRES the local-mysql plugin to fetch the metadata from the local library and should be able to use the data from the mopidy-gmusic plugin.

Mopidy configuration is complex and this description will only touch the areas that are relevant for the skill. Mopidy settings are made in ~/.config/mopidy/mopidy.conf for a desktop install and under /etc/mopidy/mopidy.conf for picroft/Mark-1 (if it doesn't exist it needs to be created).

This readme only covers the basics, for more details check out the official documentation at https://www.mopidy.com

Local music

For playing music from the local file system or file share check under the heading

[local]

and make sure the following config options are set according to your system

enabled = true
library = sqlite
media_dir = PATH_TO_YOUR_MUSIC

after this is done scan the local collection by running

mopidy local scan

Examples

• "play Armikrog OST"
• "play something by Terry Scott Taylor"
• "play rock music"

Credits

@forslund

Category

Music

Tags

mopidy

music