Controlling Sonance Amp

Third party integrations Node-RED
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Hi all. I’m struggling with getting a HA dashboard configured to show volume levels and mute status from a Sonance DSP8-130 controlled over the network using commands.

I’ve struggled through getting a media card on my dashboard to show what’s playing (WiiM Pro) and added buttons to control volume +/- and mute on/off using helpers, entities and buttons to send the commands through Node Red to the Amp.

I’ve also set up another Node Red flow to capture true/false for mute status for 3 outputs and that’s repeating every 5 seconds and shows in the debug window.

What I would like is a volume slider and mute button that reflect the amplifiers settings using the poll commands that I can send.

I can’t figure out how to set this up to show in Home Assistant on a media dashboard.

To save dumping absolutely everything here, what do people need to see to understand where I am and hopefully help me out.

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Have you looked at the Universal Media Player integration? It lets you create a single native Home Assistant media player by combining and controlling multiple entities.

https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/universal/

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Thanks for the reference, I’ll take a deeper dive into it but on the surface it looks like it is a way to control it once controllable elements are already in place. My challenge is getting them into a controllable space within Home Assistant in the first place. Once they are there I should be on the home run.

Just to clarify, correct entity creation is what I’m struggling with.