Smart Mosque: control the mosque's sound desk

Smart Mosque connects your mosque's Behringer X32 to moschee.io. A small Smart-Mosque-Box on the desk's network talks to the desk, and you switch channels from the dashboard, the moschee.io app or a link for the imam. Automations switch at the adhan, the iqamah and after the prayer, with nobody standing at the desk.

The feature is in beta and currently supports the Behringer X32 family only: X32, X32 Compact, X32 Producer, X32 Rack and X32 Core. It is included in the Community Plus and Reach plans.

The Smart-Mosque-Box is a Docker container on a mini PC or Raspberry Pi on the same network as the desk. It talks to the X32 over the network and keeps the connection to moschee.io. This is how you set it up:

1. Start the container with the command from the dashboard under Smart Mosque → Mixer.
2. Open the box's page on the mosque network and choose "Connect to moschee.io". Approve the code it shows as an administrator.
3. The box finds the desk on the network or takes its IP address. The desk then appears in the dashboard with its status, firmware and the channel names from the desk.
4. Under "Setup", choose which channels, buses, DCAs or mute groups moschee.io may see, and give each a role: imam, muezzin, minbar, Quran player, outdoor area and more.

Only the channels you set up appear in moschee.io, and only those does the box switch. A channel can be "protected during prayer": no automation then mutes the imam's microphone between the iqamah and the end of the prayer.

The "Live" tab shows the channels you set up with their meters and state. One tap mutes or unmutes a channel, you set a level or recall a scene from the desk. Every change carries who made it: the desk, a person, a remote, an automation or Home Assistant.

The same is available in the moschee.io app under "Mixer". Owners, admins and streamers switch channels and pause automations; setup, rules and remotes stay with owners and admins.

A remote is a link for the imam or a helper, with no account. It contains only the channels you choose, allows mute/on or also the level, scenes if you want, and pausing the automations. The link is valid for a day, 30 days or until you revoke it, and comes with a QR code for the minbar.

An automation is made of When, Only if and Then. When: a prayer moment such as the adhan, the iqamah, the end of the adhan or after the prayer, with an offset in minutes, for single prayers or all of them, Jumu'ah included. The times come from your prayer times. If live translation is running, the box can also hear the adhan and the iqamah and fire the rule right then, with the timetable as the fallback.

Only if: certain prayers, weekdays or only during a livestream. A person always wins: if someone changed a channel shortly before at the desk or in the app, the box leaves it alone. Then: mute, mute once it is quiet, fade in, set a level, recall a scene or a snippet, wait.

• Mute music and the Quran player before the adhan.
• Switch on the imam's microphone at the iqamah.
• Mute the microphones after the prayer.

New rules first only log what they would have done, so you can check the history for a few prayers before they really switch. The automations run on the box and therefore without internet; in the dashboard you pause them for an hour, until the evening or until you switch them back on.

If your mosque uses Home Assistant, connect it through HACS with the "moschee.io" integration. In Home Assistant you choose which switches, lights and helpers moschee.io may see, for example the desk's power socket. These switches appear next to the desk in the dashboard and in the app.

Switch rules run from the prayer timetable directly inside Home Assistant: "switch the desk on 15 minutes before Fajr" or "switch it off 30 minutes after Isha". While a translation is live, no rule switches anything off. If you want, Home Assistant also sees the desk's channels as entities and may switch them; protected channels stay untouched during the prayer.

Smart Mosque is new and marked as beta. Today that means:

• Only the Behringer X32 family is supported: X32, X32 Compact, X32 Producer, X32 Rack and X32 Core. Other desks follow once they are tested on real devices.
• The box needs a small computer on the desk's network and someone to set it up once. We help with the setup.
• The interface and the rules may still change. Your feedback from the first Jumu'ah goes straight in.

Write to us through the contact form if you would like to try Smart Mosque in your mosque.