LED Display Server

LED Display Server

MCP server for controlling LED displays via MQTT. It enables AI agents to list devices and send text, images, colors, or clear commands with authentication and permission checks.

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LED Display Server

Serveur central Laravel d'une plateforme domotique pilotable par IA.

Agent IA (Claude) → [MCP/HTTP + OAuth Passport] → ce serveur → [MQTT] → Mosquitto → Raspberry Pi (écran LED)

Le serveur ne fait aucun rendu. Il authentifie, vérifie les permissions, publie des payloads MQTT stricts, et journalise.

Stack

  • Laravel 11 / PHP 8.3
  • laravel/mcp — tools MCP
  • laravel/passport — OAuth 2.1 pour les agents
  • php-mqtt/laravel-client — publication MQTT
  • PostgreSQL 16
  • Docker Compose (app PHP-FPM + nginx + Postgres + Mosquitto)
  • GitHub Actions → build/push ghcr.io

Contrat MQTT (Raspberry Pi)

Topic : display/led/# (le mqtt_topic du device en base, ex. display/led)

Payload JSON exact :

{
  "type": "text|image|color|clear",
  "content": "...",
  "duration": 10,
  "priority": "normal|high"
}
type content
text texte à afficher
image URL http(s) uniquement (jamais de binaire)
color hex #RRGGBB / #RGB ou r,g,b
clear ignoré

duration et priority sont optionnels (priority défaut normal).

Tools MCP

Endpoint : POST /mcp/led-display (middleware auth:api)

Tool Rôle
ListDevices devices accessibles à l'utilisateur
DisplaySendText publie type=text
DisplaySendImage publie type=image
DisplaySetColor publie type=color
DisplayClear publie type=clear
DisplayGetStatus dernier status / last_seen_at connus

Chaque tool vérifie les permissions (device_user_permissions.allowed_actions), récupère mqtt_topic, publie, écrit un display_logs.

Note API laravel/mcp : structure basée sur la doc officielle (Server + $tools, Tool::handle(Request): Response, schema(JsonSchema), enregistrement dans routes/ai.php via Mcp::web + Mcp::oauthRoutes). Si un attribut / namespace change dans une version future du package, vérifier https://laravel.com/docs/mcp.

Installation locale (Docker)

Prérequis VPS : réseau Docker partagé avec Caddy :

docker network create proxy   # une seule fois si absent
cp .env.example .env
# APP_URL=https://led.ton-domaine.fr

# Mot de passe Mosquitto
chmod +x docker/mosquitto/generate-passwd.sh
./docker/mosquitto/generate-passwd.sh ledserver changeme
# ou :
docker run --rm -v "$PWD/docker/mosquitto:/mosquitto/config" eclipse-mosquitto:2 \
  mosquitto_passwd -b -c /mosquitto/config/passwd ledserver changeme

# Aligner MQTT_AUTH_* dans .env
# MQTT_AUTH_USERNAME=ledserver
# MQTT_AUTH_PASSWORD=changeme

docker compose build
docker compose up -d

docker compose exec app php artisan key:generate --force
docker compose exec app php artisan migrate --force
docker compose exec app php artisan passport:keys --force
docker compose exec app php artisan db:seed --force

Reverse-proxy Caddy

Le service web (container_name: led-display-web) n'expose plus de port public : Caddy termine le TLS et reverse-proxifie sur le réseau proxy.

  1. Ajoute le snippet docker/caddy/Caddyfile.snippet à ton Caddyfile (adapte le domaine).
  2. Vérifie que le compose Caddy est bien sur networks: proxy: external: true.
  3. Recharge Caddy : docker exec caddy caddy reload --config /etc/caddy/Caddyfile
Internet → Caddy:443 → led-display-web:80 → app:9000
Pi LED ────────────── MQTT :1883 ─────────→ mqtt

MQTT reste exposé sur l'hôte (MQTT_PUBLIC_PORT, défaut 1883) : ce n'est pas routé via Caddy HTTP.

Assets CSS/JS : nginx sert public/ via le volume Docker public_assets (sync au démarrage de app). Sans ça, Filament apparaît sans styles. Vérifie aussi APP_URL=https://… dans .env.

Attention VPS / Portainer : si compose.yaml et docker-compose.yml coexistent, Compose utilise compose.yaml en priorité. Garde les deux identiques (le repo versionne les deux) ou n’en garde qu’un.

Back-office Filament (/admin)

Accessible uniquement aux users is_admin=true (compte seed : admin@led-display.local / password).

Section Contenu
Dashboard Stats devices (online / offline / never seen) + tableau de statut
Dispositifs CRUD + actions Texte / Couleur / Clear (MQTT) + permissions
Utilisateurs CRUD + flag admin
Tokens MCP Créer / révoquer des personal access tokens Passport
Logs Historique des commandes d'affichage

Après déploiement image :

docker compose exec app php artisan migrate --force
# Se connecter sur https://domaine/admin

Si la création de token échoue, créer un client Passport personal access :

docker compose exec app php artisan passport:client --personal --name="LED Personal" --no-interaction

Compte démo (seeder) :

  • admin@led-display.local / password (admin)
  • agent@led-display.local / password (permissions LED complètes)
  • Device #1 — topic display/led

Sans Docker (dev)

cp .env.example .env
# Adapter DB_* (pgsql ou sqlite)
composer install
php artisan key:generate
php artisan migrate
php artisan passport:install
php artisan db:seed
php artisan serve

Enregistrer un device / permissions

php artisan device:create "LED Cuisine" display/led/cuisine
php artisan device:grant agent@led-display.local 1 --actions=text,image,color,clear

API REST (Bearer Passport) :

  • CRUD /api/devices
  • CRUD /api/users (admin)
  • POST /api/devices/{id}/permissions { "user_id": 2, "allowed_actions": ["text","clear"] }
  • GET /api/display-logs

Connecter un agent MCP

  1. Créer un client OAuth Passport (ou personal access token pour tests) :
php artisan passport:client --name="Claude Agent" --no-interaction
# ou token personnel :
php artisan tinker
>>> $u = App\Models\User::where('email','agent@led-display.local')->first();
>>> $u->createToken('mcp')->accessToken;
  1. Configurer le client MCP (ex. Claude / Cursor) :
  • URL : https://VOTRE_HOST/mcp/led-display
  • Auth : Bearer token Passport (Authorization: Bearer …)
  • OAuth discovery : routes enregistrées via Mcp::oauthRoutes() (voir doc MCP OAuth)
  1. L'agent appelle ListDevices puis DisplaySendText.

Listener de statut (optionnel)

Le Pi peut publier son état sur display/led/+/status (JSON libre). Pour mettre à jour devices.status / last_seen_at :

docker compose --profile listeners up -d mqtt-listener
# ou
php artisan mqtt:listen-status --topic='display/led/+/status'

Broker MQTT externe

Si Mosquitto tourne ailleurs (pas le service mqtt Compose), dans .env :

MQTT_HOST=mqtt.example.com
MQTT_PORT=8883
MQTT_TLS_ENABLED=true
MQTT_TLS_CA_FILE=/etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt
MQTT_AUTH_USERNAME=...
MQTT_AUTH_PASSWORD=...

Puis retirez / ne démarrez pas le service mqtt du compose.

Déploiement GitHub Actions → GHCR → VPS

Workflow : .github/workflows/deploy.yml

  1. Push main (ou tag v*) → build image Docker → push ghcr.io/fabienhamot/mcp_mqtt_server
  2. Déploiement SSH optionnel : définir la variable de dépôt ENABLE_VPS_DEPLOY=true et les secrets :
    • VPS_HOST, VPS_USER, VPS_SSH_KEY, VPS_PORT, VPS_APP_DIR, GHCR_TOKEN

Sur le VPS :

docker network create proxy 2>/dev/null || true
git clone git@github.com:fabienhamot/mcp_mqtt_server.git ~/mcp_mqtt_server && cd ~/mcp_mqtt_server
cp .env.example .env   # APP_URL=https://led.ton-domaine.fr, DB_*, MQTT_*
# générer passwd mosquitto + ajouter le snippet Caddy (docker/caddy/Caddyfile.snippet)
docker compose pull
docker compose up -d
docker compose exec app php artisan passport:keys --force
docker compose exec app php artisan db:seed --force

Tests

php artisan test --filter=DisplayPayloadTest

Structure utile

app/Mcp/Servers/LedDisplayServer.php
app/Mcp/Tools/*Tool.php
app/Services/{DisplayPayload,MqttPublisher,DisplayCommandService,DevicePermissionService}.php
app/Models/{Device,DeviceUserPermission,DisplayLog,User}.php
routes/ai.php          # MCP + OAuth
routes/api.php         # back-office REST
docker-compose.yml
Dockerfile
.github/workflows/deploy.yml

Points à vérifier contre la doc officielle

  1. laravel/mcp — attributs #[Name], #[Description], annotations tools (IsReadOnly, IsIdempotent), signature exacte de Mcp::oauthRoutes() / middleware Passport : https://laravel.com/docs/mcp
  2. Passport 13 — trait HasApiTokens + interface OAuthenticatable, guard api driver passport
  3. TLS Mosquitto 8883 — certificats à fournir dans storage/mosquitto/certs avant d'activer le listener TLS dans docker/mosquitto/mosquitto.conf

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