aw-watcher-mpd

aw-watcher-mpd

An ActivityWatch watcher for MPD.

Based of off aw-watcher-spotify

Development

1. Install pip packages from the requirements.txt.
   pip install -r requirements.txt
2. Start ActivityWatch in testing mode.
   aw-qt --testing
3. cd aw_watcher_mpd
4. python main.py --testing

Building

Make sure you have pyinstaller installed before you start.
pip install -U pyinstaller

1. make clean
2. make package
   

dist/aw-watcher-mpd is your outputted folder

Installing (Linux)

To install aw-watcher-mpd, first build it, then follow the below steps to install and automatically start the watcher when ActivityWatch starts.

1. cp -R dist/aw-watcher-mpd /opt
2. Create /usr/bin/aw-watcher-mpd
   Contents:

#!/bin/bash

/opt/aw-watcher-mpd/aw-watcher-mpd "$@"

1. chmod +x /usr/bin/aw-watcher-mpd
2. Edit ~/.config/activitywatch/aw-qt/aw-qt.toml
   Uncomment the first two lines and add aw-watcher-mpd to autostart.
   Example:

[aw-qt]
autostart_modules = ["aw-server", "aw-watcher-afk", "aw-watcher-window", "aw-watcher-mpd"]

Configuring

To configure settings for aw-watcher mpd such as the MPD connection details and ActivityWatch poll time, first run the application once, and then edit ~/.config/activitywatch/aw-watcher-mpd/aw-watcher-mpd.toml.