📂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

cat /etc/systemd/lnxlink.service | grep -i ExecStart

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

3rd party custom modules:

• GPU nvidia-settings
• AM2302 Temperature and Humidity

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
  auth:
    user: user
    pass: pass
    tls: false
    keyfile: ''
    certfile: ''
    ca_certs: ''
  discovery:
    enabled: true
  lwt:
    enabled: true
    qos: 1
    retain: false
update_interval: 5
update_on_change: false

• 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.

• Retain: Keeps the values of entities on MQTT broker.

• 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.