📂Configuration

Config file location

Your config file is located at the directory you were when you first run LNXlink. This can be anything you write like of the config.yaml that I suggested. You can find where it is from the systemd service:

Desktop

cat ~/.config/systemd/user/lnxlink.service | grep -i ExecStart

Server

Modules

By default all modules are automatically loaded. This happens when the modules section is empty like this:

modules:

You should select the ones you want to load. All supported modules can be found here and the configuration should look like this:

modules:
- notify
- camera_used
- idle
- keep_alive
- shutdown
- brightness

Custom module

You can create custom modules and import them to your configuration with their full path or a URL. Code examples can be found here.

custom_modules:
- /home/user/mytest.py
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bkbilly/lnxlink/master/lnxlink/modules/cpu.py

Exclude Modules

In case you have empty modules config which auto loads all the available modules, you can have this option that excludes modules from auto loading:

exclude:
- screenshot
- webcam

Extra options

This is the default settings:

mqtt:
  prefix: lnxlink
  clientId: DESKTOP-Linux
  server: server
  port: 1883
  clear_on_off: true
  auth:
    user: user
    pass: pass
    tls: false
    keyfile: ''
    certfile: ''
    ca_certs: ''
  discovery:
    enabled: true
    prefix: homeassistant
  lwt:
    enabled: true
    qos: 1
update_interval: 5
update_on_change: false
modules: []
custom_modules: []
exclude: []
settings: []

• MQTT Topic: This consists of the prefix and the clientId: /lnxlink/DESKTOP-Linux.

• MQTT Encryption: To use a secured MQTT broker, you will have to enable the tls option and optionally define the keyfile, certfile, ca_certs files.

• Discovery Enabled: It sends the settings for configuring Home Assistant entities.

• Clear On Off: Clears mqtt data from broker when stopped.

• Update Interval: Sets the interval in seconds for when the sensors are updated.

• Update on change: Sends an update to the MQTT broker when a change is detected or every 15 minutes.

Environmental Options

If the following environment variables are defined, they replace the options from the configuration file:

LNXLINK_MQTT_PREFIX
LNXLINK_MQTT_CLIENTID
LNXLINK_MQTT_SERVER
LNXLINK_MQTT_PORT
LNXLINK_MQTT_USER
LNXLINK_MQTT_PASS
LNXLINK_HASS_URL
LNXLINK_HASS_API