Yamaha receiver is not working

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Folks,
I decided to move completely from OH1 to OH2b1 and for those add-ons that are not yet available, I’m using the latest OH 1.8 add-on, such as Yamaha - however it’s the first time that I try this add-on.
I’m using a Yamaha RX-V479, it’s working with Yamaha Android app, and I’m assuming that is not a problem with my receiver, the problem is that I don’t know if this receiver is supported by Yamaha add-on or it is a problem with OH2b1.
What I see in OH logs is this:
2016-01-24 19:14:45.552 [ERROR] [eiver.internal.YamahaReceiverBinding] - Error configuring YamahaReceiver Refresh Service

Any clue what should I do find the root cause and eventualy fix it?

Best Regards!
-BD

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I can tell you that the Receiver definitely works with the Yamaha Binding, I am using it with a RX-V 479, but only with OH1.

Bye, Frido.

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Frido, so it’s a good news - eliminated the compatibility issue.

Are you using this kind of configuration?

openhab.cfg
yamahareceiver:living.host=192.168.10.31

and item:
Switch Yamaha_Power “Power [%s]” (gHomeTheater_Ent) { yamahareceiver=“uid=living, zone=main, bindingType=power” }

Just to double check.

Best Regards!
-BD

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@brunodom Please try a recent snapshot of OH2 since there have been various fixed regarding 1.x binding support meanwhile.

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@Kai, unfortunately, still getting the same error:

2016-01-25 05:02:39.330 [ERROR] [eiver.internal.YamahaReceiverBinding] - Error configuring YamahaReceiver Refresh Service

and as expected, if I try to power:

2016-01-25 05:04:47.074 [ERROR] [eiver.internal.YamahaReceiverBinding] - Received command for unknown device uid ‘living’

and ‘living’ is correctly in cfg file:

yamahareceiver:living.host=192.168.10.31

Any clue?

Best Regards!
-BD

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No, that needs to be debugged within the Yamaha binding…

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@brunodom I will install OH2 on a test sd card in the next couple of days and will check if it works here.
Items and cfg look similar to mine…

Bye, Frido.

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Did you follow the guide for addons that are not part of the oh2 distribution?
I checked the current offline distro and the yamahareceiver binding is not under
\runtime\karaf\system\org\openhab\binding
so this guide should apply to the yamahareceiver binding …

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I have tried it with my Yamaha Receiver and it worked with the lates OH2 release. This is what I did:

I have copied the Yamaha Receiver Addon Version 1.8.1 to the addons subdirectory

In subdirectory conf/services I have created a file named “yamaha.cfg” with the following conten:

yamahareceiver:receiver.host=192.168.2.91
yamahareceiver:refresh=60000

You will have to replace the ID address with the address of your receiver.

In directory conf/items I have created the file “yamaha.items” with some example items:

Switch Yamaha_Power         "Power [%s]"         <tv>    { yamahareceiver="uid=receiver, zone=main,  bindingType=power" }
Dimmer Yamaha_Volume         "Volume [%.1f %%]"             { yamahareceiver="uid=receiver, zone=main, bindingType=volumePercent" }

After adding these items to my sitemap I was able to manage my receiver from OH2.

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Thank you for this! I was trying to get this to work for a few hours until I found your instructions. Worked like a charm.

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I pulled the OH2 version of the Yamaha Receiver binding from here (https://github.com/davidgraeff/Openhab2-YamahaReceiver). Works like a charm > auto-discovers a Thing for my RX-A2040 plus one Thing for each of the additional zones…

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@pnijsters How do you install the OH2 version? I managed to figure out how to do it in a development version via Eclipse but at a loss how to do it on a stand-alone install

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Do a ‘mvn install’ or ‘mvn package’ from the command line in the work-space where you installed the development version of the binding > that should do the trick > it will create a jar file in the target directory.

I’m doing this on a Mac and am somewhat clueless on how to pull this of with Eclipse. I just cloned the development version from Github into my Eclipse workspace. I did this in the git directory under openhab2-addons/addons/binding and renamed the root directory of the development version to org.openhab.binding.yamahareceiver2 (so now the code is under git/openhab2-addons/addons/binding/org.openhab.binding.yamahareceiver2). I added a line to the pom.xml in git/openhab2-addons/addons/binding (org.openhab.binding.yamahareceiver2) and then did
’mvn package’ > this created the jar file in the target directory that I pulled and moved to my OH2 install running on a separate Mac Mini, parked it on the addons directory under conf.

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Thanks Patrick. My head hurts from the complexity of the Java world, but with your instructions I managed to get it working.

For others who may need assistance in the future - I did have to edit the pom.xml file in the yamahareciever2 directory to be more like the other bindings before I could get “mvn package” to work.