PioneerAVR Binding - send additional commands

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Hi

I am using the PioneerAVR config binding in my OH2 set up to control my VSX-1120 receiver. It is working flawlessly. However, I have a two room set up and would like to be able to send the “1SPK” and “SPK” commands to switch between the speakers between the different rooms. There doesn’t seem to be an obvious way to do this with this binding.

I have experimented by sending the command with the TCP binding but this seems to cause errors through the contention with the Pioneer binding (I guess because they are both tied to the same IP address and port). Which ever binding interacts with the receiver first after boot has the priority and the other binding then flags errors.

I saw that the original legacy 1.x Pioneer binding supported this function (and many more) but I don’r really want to go ‘back’…

Any thoughts on the best path forward?

Cheers

Neil

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Hi,

could you solve your issue? Have the same problem here with new OH2 Pioneer Binding but no speaker command :frowning:

Thanks
Lukas

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Yuo would need to implement it in the binding. Maybe @gersilex can be of help.

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I have been summoned. :grin: This sounds like a relatively easy task to do and I am happy to help you out with this, @Lukas_B.

Can you please provide:

  • The exact model of your receiver
  • The commands you would like to see implemented
  • A link to Pioneers Commands table would be great as well

I’ll implement the commands and give you a binding.jar to test it out.

If you can provide all the stuff above, please open a GitHub Issue with the [PioneerAVR] prefix, so that we can track it there :slight_smile:

Cheers!

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Hi

I never solved this issue but if there is an opportunity to get the binding tweaked that would be awesome. For me it would be the following:

Pioneer VSX-1120
Select SPEAKER A or SPEAKER B or SPEAKER A+B
The Pioneer IP commands can be found here - https://www.pioneerelectronics.com/StaticFiles/PUSA/Files/Home%20Custom%20Install/VSX-1120-K-RS232.PDF

Thanks

Neil

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Hi Neil. Thank you for the information. Could be so kind to add those as a new Issue here: https://github.com/openhab/openhab-addons/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+pioneer ?

This way we won’t forget it and me or another maintainer can take a shot at it as soon as we have time. Thanks! :slight_smile:

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Hi,

Thanks for support very much.

My model is VSX924, command is *SPK (SPEAKERS A ON, B ON, A+B ON).

Commands here (2014 PIONEER…) :
https://www.pioneerelectronics.com/PUSA/Support/Home-Entertainment-Custom-Install/RS-232+&+IP+Codes/A+V+Receivers

As i said, with OH1 and its binding it was working perfect but in OH2 command missing.

Thanks
Lukas_B

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@gersilex : Can you already estimate when this function might be implemented?