A different beast from the AVR-X, but I totally understand your opinion.
Once bitten and all that
Curiously, my Acer Aspire laptop does something every year or so (depending on usage and more importantly, where I’ve used it over that year)
It gets hot very quickly, then shuts down.
When I realise / remember, I have to strip down the cooling system for the CPU and give the heat exchanger a good clean.
Maybe you’re suffering something similar?
I got an Onkyo TX-NR686 about a year ago. Connected to OpenHAB, but have not done much with it besides power on in the morning when entering kitchen…
I’ve recently build a Denon AVR X2600H and I’m very glad for my decision. But I don’t really use the heos binding (which is working). Most of the time it is controlled via Spotify binding which is working fine.
My 4 year old uses rfid smartcards, an Esp32 rfid reader, MQTT and Openhab rules to play Spotify play lists (fireman Sam, paw patrol…)
One thing that sucks is the missing functionality of the heos binding to switch of the receiver. But the standby of 15 minutes works fine.
Hi
That’s a really nice idea you’ve put together there.
The Denon binding should take care of that for you.
Thankfully PaperUI takes care of the setup so that I didn’t have to mess around with text files.
Thank you for the hint!
Also a Denon user, I really love my X3400H, it is a great product. The binding also works without problems.
I also use HEOS speakers (with the AVR also) which is also perfect…
Well, I did. I had no AVR and was looking into the same price range. While I already had great speakers, I was just looking for a solid receiver.
I have a Pioneer VSX-830 (no built-in chromecast but instead a connected chromecast audio and chromecast video). Somehow the integrated chomecast devices don’t work exactly like the “real” chromecasts.
My VSX-830 was not supported but the maintainer and me updated the compatibility list a few months ago. The protocol mostly doesn’t change so it’s only a matter of updating the list of supported devices.
I even was able to add new functionality from the awesomely documented AVR into the binding. I am really easily overwhelmed by Java programming but the binding is well-structured and the maintainer was very helpful. Thanks to the binding I now have extended the relatively cheap AVR with features, only the bigger brothers have. (I read out the audio format and switch the listening mode / speaker setup configuration from Dolby Pro Logic 2 to real 5.1 and vice versa).
I can wholeheartedly recommend both the hardware and the binding.
Is this the Pioneer binding you´re talking about?
Oh that’s news. I was under the impression that he had given up on updating.
Can you get me in touch with him again to have him update the binding with the latest model strings?
I have already compiled the list of 2016-2020 models that are missing.
Yes the HW is great, too. I bought it for the sake of Atmos and love that stuff.
Unfortunately, I am not in direct contact with him and only was for the time when we worked on [pioneeravr] Add Listening Mode Channels (#5515) · openhab/openhab-addons@2189951 · GitHub
J-N-K commited the changes for me and Hilbrandt did the review. Not sure, who or even IF there is an active maintainer for the binding anymore, but maintaining it seems pretty doable. Maybe I can help you out if you create a GitHub Issue and private-message me here.
Tried it once… had nothing but problems with my VSX-932… Turned out it wasn´t supported by the binding.
Great.
I just opened https://github.com/openhab/openhab-addons/issues/7315, please see what you can do.
@mstormi @Kim_Andersen @gersilex
Did you know that there was a fusion of Onkyo and Pioneer in 2015.
Most of the Pioneer AV Receivers after 2015 (exactly since April 2016) are supported by the Onkyo Binding.
There is no need to update Pioneer AVR binding with models after 2015 (since April 2016). Instead the Onkyo binding documentation should be updated.
Did you try out Onkyo binding?
See also here:
SC-LX501 (2017 model)
VSX-S520 (Model 2016)
VSX-831
Pioneer VSX-1131 (identical to VSX-531 and VSX-831).
No I didnt know that. Will give it a try asap.
I have an Onkyo TX-NR717 and control almost everything via openHab. Controlling the 2 extra zones are much easier via openHab. Also switching between sound modes (normally you need to toggle between all modes, in openhab I just select the correct one).
That’s great news. It might be even worth to migrate the features into the one binding and maybe rename it some day. Thanks for the info!
I didn’t know they’re compatible … but that seems to be just the same sort of generic support that exists in the pioneeravr binding, too (ipAvrUnsupported I think it’s called there).
Yes it’s called “ipAvrUnsupported”. (I don’t know exactly which channels are supported there). But the “generic support” of Pioneer binding has all the same channels like the “fully supported” Pioneer models.
I have an SC-LX72 and all is running but the “Display Channel”.