Masjid Quba broadcasts Live audio from the Masjid. You can listen to the audio via internet or with a radio receiver.
The Masjids live stream URL is http://livemasjid.net/masjidequba.mp3
you can use this URL to add the masjid to your own devices
The masjid Live stream can also be found on app such as Tunein radio
The masjid is also on Home Assistant and can be found in the Home Assistant radio as “Masjid Quba”. If you are familiar with Home Assistant, you can use it to broadcast the Masjid live stream to capable smart devices in you home
The Masjids Radio Frequency is 431.493750mhz
MQTT Live Broadcast
Masjid Quba publishes an MQTT message every time the masjid Transmitter is turned ON and turned OFF. This is significant as it allows automations based on these events such as playing the Masjids internet live stream on smart speakers such as Google or Alexa.
In simple terms, when the transmitter comes on, so does your Google Nest hub or Amazon Echo device and its plays the Adhaan and when the transmitter is turned off, the smart speaker goes back to being your smart speaker.
What makes this system stand out is that it can work anywhere in world but even if your have poor radio reception near the Masjid.
Most people already have these smart speakers in their house and often its in locations where it can be heard.
The Server address for the broker is broker.hivemq.com
The MQTT Topic to subscribe to is QubaLive
Unfortunately, its not a simple setup but if you know how to use MQTT and would like to try it out, we can offer assistances.
We use Node red to publish the MQTT message. You can then use Node Red, Home Assistant or similar to receive the message and cast it to your smart speaker.
You can use a Raspberry Pi to run the software.
In testing it has been working very well Alhamdulillah.