Purchased home with ELAN system installed. It is not flexible and only deal less can program automations, etc, or course at a price. Love to see an integration to this system.
Hi! I wanted to echo this request and also state I am actively evaluating ways to integrate.
In the system I inherited, I have elan, RTI and lutrin all working together.
My plan is to dump RTI and use existing Lutron and Elan systems as Amps and Lights are fairly timeless.
Also, RTI is a closed system with no API available, so that’s a big fail in my humble opinion.
If I get it Elan working, I’ll follow up here. If someone else has (I see there are serial AT commands documented) and is working on a . More generic component, please chime in!
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+1 from me.
I Have recently purchased an ELAN S86A amplifier and keen to see it work with Home Assistant.
Not sure where to start but thought I might chime in with my interest.
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I agree. I used to be a programmer for a dealer on Elan systems and I would love to see some integration! I have lots of old equipment I would love to reuse.
Progress:
It isn’t a Home Assistant Integration, but I have written a Node-Red flow for the amplifier.
The flow is written for an Elan S86, but I imagine it would work with other Elan Amplifiers.
Hopefully in time we can make some Home Assistant entities with it.
Feel free to give it a spin, if you have any ideas or can help develop it - please let me know.
https://flows.nodered.org/flow/3f98bf288e8ced2e758676610aac8c1e
@The_DuFF were you able to integrate your Node-Red code into Home Assistant? I have an Elan S12 and I would like to control it via HA. I have all of the Elan documentation for the RS-232 serial commands so I’d love to leverage whatever solution you have available.
@doolio i’ve been playing with it on and off, but I’m not much of a programmer so don’t expect too much.
However I have been experimenting using Node-Red as a MQTT gateway for ELAN.
If I can achieve that, it will be very easy to integrate Home Assistant with Elan.
thanks @The_DuFF for taking the time to provide an update. I figured out a solution! I have a Global Cache IP2SL hooked up to my Elan S12 which basically translates between IP and Serial. It turns out I can use the Telnet service in HA to send/receive commands between HA and the IP2SL/Elan. I have it all set up and running perfectly. I even exposed it to Alexa and can now control it with voice commands. It’s amazing what you can do with HA … I never thought I would have both an App and Alexa voice commands for a 15 year old audio system.
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Hi doolio have similar issues I have elan audio matrix and nvr and would like to control from HA. Can I use this approach you have tested as well?
@Olapi101 it’s hard for me to say with the very limited information in your post. The key is having the right codes for the actions that you want to configure. I recommend you get the manuals and see if you can find the codes. Once you have those then it should be straight forward