Dot Device OpenAPI and MCP

Use this skill when the user wants to operate a Dot. device:

• List devices or find a device ID
• Check device status
• Read or update device settings
• Switch to the next content
• Send Text API content
• Send Image API content
• Send an already-designed Canvas API payload
• List loop or fixed tasks on a device

If the user asks to design a custom Canvas card, dashboard, or windowData layout, use dot-canvas-designer first, then return here only when the user wants to send it to a device.

Local MCP

Compatible agents can use the local dot-mcp stdio server instead of constructing HTTP requests. It exposes only the fixed Dot tools below; it does not expose arbitrary HTTP access:

• Read-only: dotlistdevices, dotgetdevicestatus, dotgetdevicesettings, dotlisttimezones, dotlisttasks, dotvalidatecanvas
• Device-changing: dotupdatedevicesettings, dotswitchnextcontent, dotsendtext, dotsendimage, dotsendcanvas

The server reads DOTAPIKEY from the MCP process environment. It never accepts the key as a tool argument, stores it, or logs it. Device-changing requests are sent once without automatic retries.

Install the local server with pipx install git+https://github.com/MindReset/dotskill.git, run it with dot-mcp, or use uvx --from git+https://github.com/MindReset/dotskill.git dot-mcp. Platform configuration examples are in docs/mcp-configs.md.

Requirements

• Base URL: https://dot.mindreset.tech
• Authentication: Authorization: Bearer dotapp<api_key>
• API key source: ask the user or read DOTAPIKEY from the local environment.
• Device ID source: ask the user, list devices, or use the ID the user provides.
• Rate limit: 10 requests per second.

Successful POST control endpoints (next, text, image, canvas) return a JSON object with a top-level message field. Do not expect a legacy { code, message, result } wrapper.

Workflow

1. Confirm a valid API key and device ID.
2. For Text API, Image API, or Canvas API writes, ensure the matching content has already been added to the device loop task in Dot. App Content Studio.
3. Pick the endpoint:

- Text display: POST /api/authV2/open/device/:deviceId/text - Image display: POST /api/authV2/open/device/:deviceId/image - Canvas display: POST /api/authV2/open/device/:deviceId/canvas - Device status: GET /api/authV2/open/device/:deviceId/status - Device settings: GET /api/authV2/open/device/:deviceId/settings - Update device settings: POST /api/authV2/open/device/:deviceId/settings - Timezone list: GET /api/authV2/open/timezones - Device list: GET /api/authV2/open/devices - Next content: POST /api/authV2/open/device/:deviceId/next - Task list: GET /api/authV2/open/device/:deviceId/:taskType/list

1. Always include Content-Type: application/json for POST requests.

Scripts

Use the scripts in scripts/ for local execution:

• list_devices.py
• getdevicestatus.py
• getdevicesettings.py
• updatedevicesettings.py
• list_tasks.py
• switch_next.py
• send_text.py
• send_image.py
• send_canvas.py

Text, image, and Canvas helper scripts support --task-alias for the user-readable task name shown in the device task list.

Request Notes

For Text API, parameters include refreshNow, taskKey, taskAlias, title, message, signature, icon, link, and styles.

For Image API, parameters include refreshNow, taskKey, taskAlias, image, link, border, ditherType, and ditherKernel.

For Canvas API sending, parameters include refreshNow, taskKey, taskAlias, data, windowData, layoutFull, link, and border. Build or revise windowData with dot-canvas-designer.

For device settings, parameters include alias, location, timezone, interval, and sleep. Timezones must be one of the keys returned by GET /api/authV2/open/timezones. Both interval.powerMs and interval.batteryMs must be 60,000-43,200,000 ms in whole-minute multiples. The battery interval controls automatic wake and content refresh timing. sleep.start and sleep.end use local HH:mm time in the device timezone, and an end time earlier than start means the next day.

For Text API, Image API, and Canvas API, use top-level taskAlias when the user wants a human-readable task-list name. Omit taskAlias to keep the existing task name. Send taskAlias: "" or taskAlias: null only when the user explicitly wants to clear the name. Never put taskAlias inside Canvas data.

References

• references/authentication.md
• references/api_reference.md
• OpenAPI schema: ../../openapi/dot-openapi.yaml