Driver Releases

I haven't tried it using MyServer6 but I did using HTWebRemote and it was definitely slower than the Zidoo API. Plus the Zidoo API has functions(Subtitle, Audio, Resolution) that the android driver doesn't have.

andrew wrote:

And for me I'd like to see Yamaha AV amp control. Our current one (RX-V677) is supported by this  github.com/nicko88/HTWebRemote/blob/mast...ents/Yamaha_YNCA.pdf and I guess there's a more modern version for current models (e.g. RXV6A) if they don't still use the same protocol. Or one could reverse engineer the http interface.

github.com/nicko88/HTWebRemote/tree/mast...l%20Spec%20Documents is a good source for a whole bunch of devices.

Andrew

A YamahaAVR driver has been released. This is for all Yamaha AVRs that support the YNCA protocol. This is a port of an existing V4 driver that did work but I have no way to test locally. If there are any issues I will have to use someone's system for driver debugging.

davep wrote:

andrew wrote:

And for me I'd like to see Yamaha AV amp control. Our current one (RX-V677) is supported by this  github.com/nicko88/HTWebRemote/blob/mast...ents/Yamaha_YNCA.pdf and I guess there's a more modern version for current models (e.g. RXV6A) if they don't still use the same protocol. Or one could reverse engineer the http interface.

github.com/nicko88/HTWebRemote/tree/mast...l%20Spec%20Documents is a good source for a whole bunch of devices.

Andrew

A YamahaAVR driver has been released. This is for all Yamaha AVRs that support the YNCA protocol. This is a port of an existing V4 driver that did work but I have no way to test locally. If there are any issues I will have to use someone's system for driver debugging.

I will try to test this despite not having any official hardware. Testing will be easier now you've released the version of myDesigner that emulates the remote hard buttons on launching a scene - thanks for that.

Andrew

So far for our Yamaha RX-V677 I have successfully (from the myServer driver testing web interface) tried power on, power off, mute on, mute off and mute toggle and source select for HDMI1, HDMI2, HDMI3 and HDMI4.

I've tried volume up and down by an integer number of steps and it works except like someone else commented for another driver, this seems to be based on what myServer thinks the volume is - it doesn't take into account something else having changed the volume directly on the amp.

Set volume to a number between 0 and 100 either doesn't work or I don't understand what it's doing - the amp itself measures volume in dB in the negative range and I can't at the moment see the correlation between that and 0-100 on the myServer end. It might just be because I'm tired... Anyway it would be useful to be able to set the volume to an absolute number in dB as that's what we're used to now. We usually start off at about -40 and can go up to -25 or even -20 depending on the source and how deaf we're feeling that day.

It's a good start anyway and already probably good enough for my simple needs. Thanks.

Andrew

For the denon driver I made an automation that did the math to calculate the actual db value and stored that in a new variable. Then I use that new variable to display it on the remote instead of the av_x_volume variable. But I agree it would be nice if we could somehow specify which one we wanted, or have the driver calculate both.

I'll modify the denon driver to create a volume variable that tracks the real dbs. it will be in the volume_db variable. It will make it's way into the next driver update.