Use the MQTT plugin to publish various information of a Snooper Professional instance to an MQTT-broker and/or receive messages to control the state of the recorder.
Published default topics
Topics are editable so for a multi-channel setup a topic could be set like this: snpr/%channel%/status.
snpr/status
Topic for recorder status messages.
Status values: “Recording”, “Enabled”, “Disabled”, “Waiting”
JSON payload: {“status”:”<status>”}
snpr/trigger
Topic sent for all trigger values above set threshold.
Timestamp and sound level (-90db – 0dB) are sent in payload.
JSON payload: {“trg_timestamp”:”<timestamp>”, “trg_level”: “<level>”}
snpr/filename
Topic for latest saved recording.
JSON payload: {“filename” : “<filename>”}
snpr/heartbeat
Topic for Snooper Professional recording engine heartbeat.
Heartbeat is sent every 5 second.
JSON payload: {“heartbeat_timestamp”:”<timestamp>”}
snpr/triggtime
Topic for latest trigger time above threshold.
JSON payload: {“trg_timestamp”:”<timestamp>”}
snpr/info
Topic for Snooper Professional recorder setup, sent when recorder is enabled.
JSON payload: {“mode”:”<mode>”, “samplerate”:”<rate>”, “path”:”<recording path>”}
Subscribed topics
snpr/control
Send “enable” or “disable” to topic to control Snooper Professional recording state.
Setup
Enter address, port and optional credentials to an MQTT server to publish topics to.
Android application example
Example using a third-party Android application on a mobile phone connecting to an MQTT-broker accessed by Snooper Professional.
MQTT dash example