Where should I ask for help with Mopidy or its extensions on Mopidy Discourse?

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Post in Help and support on Mopidy Discourse. That category is described as the place to "Ask for help with Mopidy and Mopidy extensions," and it is the largest active category on the forum with 306 topics. If your question is about using Mopidy or an extension — configuration, playback, a service that won't connect — that's the right home for it.

Choosing the right category

The forum splits topics by purpose, and the category descriptions make the boundaries fairly clear:

Category Use it for Topics
Help and support Asking for help with Mopidy and Mopidy extensions 306
Show and tell Showing off your projects related to Mopidy 51
Ideas Ideas for Mopidy, extensions, and projects built on Mopidy 21
Development Discussions about developing Mopidy and extensions 6
Misc Legacy primary category; new topics should go in more specific categories 1434
Pi MusicBox (archive) Read-only archive of the discontinued Raspberry Pi distro 943
Meta About the forum itself, its organization, and how it works 15

The key distinction to keep in mind: usage questions belong in Help and support, not Development. The Development category description says so explicitly — it's for work on Mopidy and extensions themselves, while "usage should be discussed in Help and support."

Before you post

  • Search existing topics first. Help and support already holds 306 topics, so a common configuration or extension problem may already have an answer.
  • Avoid Misc for new questions. It's described as the former primary category, and the forum asks that new topics be created in more specific categories. A help request posted there is less likely to reach the right readers.
  • Don't post in Pi MusicBox (archive). That category is read-only, and the distro it covers has been unmaintained since 2022. It can still be useful to read, but you can't start a topic there.

Quick decision path

  1. Is it a question about using Mopidy or an extension? → Help and support
  2. Are you sharing something you built? → Show and tell
  3. Are you proposing an idea for Mopidy or an extension? → Ideas
  4. Are you working on the code of Mopidy or an extension? → Development
  5. Is it about the forum itself? → Meta

If you're unsure between Help and support and Development, default to Help and support — the forum's own guidance points usage questions there.