cups-to-mqtt

Convert the CUPS printer queues to mqtt messages

Example message

The message will be posted to the following topic: cups/brother_hl_2070n (for a printer named brother_hl_2070n)

{
  "jobs-completed":499,
  "jobs-queued":0
}

Example configuration

{
  "mqtt": {
    "url": "tcp://192.168.2.98:1883",
    "username": "user",
    "password": "password",
    "deduplicate": true
  },
  "cups": {
    "host": "192.168.3.15",
    "port": 631,
    "username": "anonymous"
  }
}

Deduplicate messages

When deduplicate is set to true no duplicate mqtt messages will be sent.

Bridge status

The bridge maintains two status topics:

Topic: .../bridge/state

Value	Description
online	The bridge is started
offline	The bridge is currently not started.

Docker

This application is intended to be executed using docker. Example docker compose usage:

cupsmqtt:
  hostname: cupsmqtt
  image: pharndt/cupsmqtt:1.0.1
  volumes:
    - ./config/cupsmqtt:/var/lib/cupsmqtt:ro
  restart: always 
  depends_on:
   - mosquitto