Constellar D-Bus Interface Specification

Version 0.2

About

Constellar is a D-Bus daemon and set of clients for World of Warcraft. The daemon publishes live game state (e.g., the player's current dungeon / raid or in-game location) for downstream clients (a Discord presence client, a future video-recording client).

Interfaces

dev.ulduar.Constellar1.Observer — Exposes World of Warcraft's current in-game activity and location.
dev.ulduar.Constellar1.Activity — A keystone dungeon or raid encounter that the player is engaged in.
dev.ulduar.Constellar1.Activity.Encounter — Present only on activity objects of kind "encounter."
dev.ulduar.Constellar1.Activity.Dungeon — Present only on activity objects of kind "dungeon."
dev.ulduar.Constellar1.Recording — A captured video segment that may span zero or more activities
org.freedesktop.DBus.ObjectManager

Objects

/dev/ulduar/Constellar1/Observer

Observer

The singleton observer object
/dev/ulduar/Constellar1/activity/current

Activity experimental

also implements Encounter, Dungeon

The in-progress activity, present only while one exists.
/dev/ulduar/Constellar1/activities/<id>

Activity experimental proposed

also implements Encounter, Dungeon

A specific historical activity
/dev/ulduar/Constellar1/recordings/<id>

Recording experimental proposed

A specific captured recording
/dev/ulduar/Constellar1

ObjectManager experimental

License

Copyright 2026 Adam Fidel

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