I’ve recently started creating a dashboard for Home Assistant on a tablet. I wanted to be in control of the zones of my Denon AVR4300H, however I was unable to find examples for Home Assistant.
After spending a few hours trying out the CLI (telnet on port 1255) and deprecated webinterface (http on port 80), I found some “homemade” documentation on the “hidden” webinterface of my AVR and figured out how to control the zones, etc. It’s kind of a hacky approach, but since I am by no means a developer, this is fine for now.
Having read tons of discussions on the forum, I thought I should contribute.
The controls, nested grids: (“Stue” = living room, “Køkken” = kitchen)
- Unfortunately there is, to my knowledge at the time of writing this, no state available. I wouldn’t hammer the “API” for a status, as it would probably down the device.
Configure the services:
- Replace the IP-address
172.16.16.51with the IP-address of your AVR - Edit
configuration.yamlor likewise:
rest_command:
heos_zone1_on:
url: "http://172.16.16.51:8080/goform/formiPhoneAppDirect.xml?ZMON"
heos_zone1_off:
url: "http://172.16.16.51:8080/goform/formiPhoneAppDirect.xml?ZMOFF"
heos_zone1_volumeup:
url: "http://172.16.16.51:8080/goform/formiPhoneAppDirect.xml?MVUP"
heos_zone1_volumedown:
url: "http://172.16.16.51:8080/goform/formiPhoneAppDirect.xml?MVDOWN"
heos_zone2_on:
url: "http://172.16.16.51:8080/goform/formiPhoneAppDirect.xml?Z2ON"
heos_zone2_off:
url: "http://172.16.16.51:8080/goform/formiPhoneAppDirect.xml?Z2OFF"
heos_zone2_volumeup:
url: "http://172.16.16.51:8080/goform/formiPhoneAppDirect.xml?Z2UP"
heos_zone2_volumedown:
url: "http://172.16.16.51:8080/goform/formiPhoneAppDirect.xml?Z2DOWN"
Lovelace card:
type: vertical-stack
cards:
- type: media-control
entity: media_player.stue
- type: grid
cards:
- type: markdown
content: <center><font size=5px>Stue</font size></center>
- type: markdown
content: <center><font size=5px>Køkken</font size></center>
columns: 2
square: false
- type: grid
cards:
- type: grid
cards:
- type: button
tap_action:
action: call-service
service: rest_command.heos_zone1_on
service_data: {}
target: {}
name: Tænd
icon: hass:check-circle
show_name: false
- type: button
tap_action:
action: call-service
service: rest_command.heos_zone1_off
service_data: {}
target: {}
name: Sluk
icon: hass:close-circle
show_name: false
- type: button
tap_action:
action: call-service
service: rest_command.heos_zone1_volumedown
service_data: {}
target: {}
icon: hass:volume-minus
show_name: false
- type: button
tap_action:
action: call-service
service: rest_command.heos_zone1_volumeup
service_data: {}
target: {}
name: stue4
icon: hass:volume-plus
show_name: false
columns: 2
- type: grid
cards:
- type: button
tap_action:
action: call-service
service: rest_command.heos_zone2_on
service_data: {}
target: {}
name: Tænd
icon: hass:check-circle
show_name: false
- type: button
tap_action:
action: call-service
service: rest_command.heos_zone2_off
service_data: {}
target: {}
name: Sluk
icon: hass:close-circle
show_name: false
- type: button
tap_action:
action: call-service
service: rest_command.heos_zone2_volumedown
service_data: {}
target: {}
icon: hass:volume-minus
show_name: false
- type: button
tap_action:
action: call-service
service: rest_command.heos_zone2_volumeup
service_data: {}
target: {}
name: stue4
icon: hass:volume-plus
show_name: false
columns: 2
columns: 2
More commands
See the following document I found, it contains a lot of commands. Simply append the commands to the HTTP GET from my example. It’s probably possible to pass arguments to the service, however I didn’t really care to spend more time on that. Let me know if you have a suggestion in regards to calling services with arguments.
https://www.heimkinoraum.de/upload/files/product/IP_Protocol_AVR-Xx100.pdf
