I just found out about Home Assistant and I got my hardware on the way to get started. So excited!
A question though: Has anyone attempted (most likely) to integrate a Monoprice multi zone amplifier into HASS? And how ‘difficult’ is it to get to work properly selecting the source/ adjusting the volume?
I hear the wall plates become inactive when you switch to another means of controlling the amp. Are the wall plates not usable if you use HA?
I have two of these units, works flawless for me. Fully integrated with HA, without any side effects or limitations. And, I use the keyboards as well.
Only thing you will need is a serial cable to the Monoprice from your HA platform. I used it first with a USB to serial cable, since then I dropped the PI for a NUC, which requires just a serial cable.
I have my HASS install recognizing my monoprice amp. But I am not sure how to actually control it.
I have Voluino as my music player and thats working. But how do I control the volume on the amplifier, and select what inputs should go to which outputs?
On the lovelace UI, all I have is a “zone 11” card.
Thank you.
I have a media player card called Volumio currently. Which is working to control Volmino. Would I install a separate media player card for the monoprice amp?
I added a media player with “zone 11” but there are no controls when I click on it.
Thank you. So I guess lovelace doesnt discover it automatically. I would need to program it directly.
Do you know of a guide that shows me how to program the card manually so that I can tell put volume controls, power etc…? I really appreciate your help with this.
2020-12-20 20:22:44 WARNING (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.media_player] Updating monoprice media_player took longer than the scheduled update interval 0:00:10
2020-12-20 20:22:44 WARNING (SyncWorker_6) [homeassistant.components.monoprice.media_player] Could not update zone 15
2020-12-20 20:22:46 WARNING (SyncWorker_6) [homeassistant.components.monoprice.media_player] Could not update zone 16
2020-12-20 20:22:56 WARNING (SyncWorker_1) [homeassistant.components.monoprice.media_player] Could not update zone 11
2020-12-20 20:22:58 WARNING (SyncWorker_3) [homeassistant.components.monoprice.media_player] Could not update zone 12
2020-12-20 20:23:00 WARNING (SyncWorker_9) [homeassistant.components.monoprice.media_player] Could not update zone 13
Same here unfortunately! I’m running HA in a VM and I can add the channels / sources but then no option to use them. I’m passing the serial port of a windows machine through to the VM which it recognises.
It has worked before on another HA instance which is strange. Error is ‘Could not update zone…’
So I have got it working using a USB serial cable. From what I can see, the integration adds the media players regardless of whether the amp is visible to HA. I tried this by adding it with the amp off and no cable and it added it! I don’t have time to debug but I would suggest the serial comms are not working and the integration leads you to think it has found the amp (which it hasn’t)
I have the some problem: Could not update zone 13,14,15…
as well as: Error executing script. Unexpected error for call_service at pos 2: Connection timed out! Last received bytes []
What can be the cause?
How to contact the person who has developed this integration? Im willing to enrich this integration with some bass/trebble options etc… thanks
