Denon AVR - how to voice control music settings?

Third party integrations
1

I’m a newbie to Home Assistant and trying to figure out how to control my receiver with my Google Home. I assume I need to start with the Denon Integrations - it did automatically find my AVR-S750.

I’m not clear where to start, the page does talk about sound modes but I’m not sure where/how to program them. I’m guessing I need to assign those sound modes to scenes somehow, than I can make an automation that says “if I say this” - activate “denon all channel surround” scene.

2

There are services to control media players https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/media_player/

3

I’m brand new to HA - do I need to enable these services to set it up? I’m a bit lost.

4

If you set up a media player like a denon avr then the services will become available.

5

Is Media player an integration? I do have the Denon AVR Network Receiver as an integration, but can’t find a media player one. Is it in the media player module I would add the specific command? It looks like QUICK2 is the command to change the receiver to Quick Select 2, where do I type that command?

6

Denon avr, or any of the integrations here https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/#media-player create a media_player entity. You will have an entiry named media_player.something. Look in the states page in developer tools.

To access a service in the ui also go to developer tools and choose services. Follow your nose from there.

7

I do have the Denon receiver listed under Entities, it’s ID is media_player.reciever. So I would then go to developer tools and enter entity: media_player.receiever and state: QUICK2? It doesn’t seem to save QUICK2 when I enter it, it just has a blue set state button. I got the QUICK2 command from here, maybe I’m looking in the wrong place?
http://assets.denon.com/_layouts/15/xlviewer.aspx?id=/DocumentMaster/us/AVR-X6400H_X4400H_X3400H_X2400H_X1400H_S930H_S730H_PROTOCOL_V01.xlsx

I’m also happy to pay someone if they know how to do it, I tried to hire someone initially but everyone said it’s better to just post questions here.

8

Go to states in dev tools and look at the attributes of media_player.amplifier. it should have a sound_mode_list. My denon amp has:

source_list:
  - AUX1
  - AUX2
  - Blu-ray
  - Bluetooth
  - CBL/SAT
  - CD
  - DVD
  - Favorites
  - Flickr
  - Game
  - Internet Radio
  - Media Player
  - Media Server
  - Online Music
  - Spotify
  - TV Audio
  - Tuner
  - iPod/USB
sound_mode_list:
  - MUSIC
  - MOVIE
  - GAME
  - AUTO
  - STANDARD
  - VIRTUAL
  - MATRIX
  - ROCK ARENA
  - JAZZ CLUB
  - VIDEO GAME
  - MONO MOVIE
  - DIRECT
  - PURE DIRECT
  - DOLBY DIGITAL
  - DTS SURROUND
  - AURO3D
  - MCH STEREO
  - STEREO
  - ALL ZONE STEREO
friendly_name: Family Room Amp
supported_features: 85949