Ah got it. I’m issuing the mute RIO command from HA so wondering what the official app might be doing. I’ll look into the artist and song not updating properly.
You should be able to update the name of the device with the edit button in the upper right hand corner of the Device info page.
Sorry for the delay in responding, I’ve been working on supporting some other integrations but have more time to work on Russound now. Many features have been merged but after the cutoff for the January release, so they will be available in Feburary.
The following features will be available in the February release (2025.2):
Discovery (Automatically discover Russound devices on the network)
Mute control
Current media time & seek (All russound streamers)
Shuffle & repeat control (All russound streamers)
Reboot button (MBX-series)
Custom action to send remote commands (Emulate Russound remote control)
Better support for song title, artist, and album art
Play/pause, skip, and next support
I went back and read your original post and mostly everything on your command list is covered in that release. The only thing that is still missing is the ability to issue the Multimedia (!MM) commands. I’m thinking of adding a custom event that is called on every incoming message from the Russound device that you would be able to use for detecting when that “Are you still listening?” message comes up. I would also need to add an action for issuing custom RIO commands or multimedia commands. Let’s count on this being implemented for the March release.
Hey @noahhusby - Thanks for the update. I look forward to testing it.
The player spits out a lot of information with each new song, etc. Most of this is not much use, but some is of use. I don’t know if the plan is to parse these and turn them into entities?
An example is the path to the cover art. This is used by Russound touchscreens to display the artwork. And I have incorporated this into my touchscreens to do the same.
Hi Noah
Just noticed this thread, regarding the mute function, if you haven’t sorted that yet. I was playing arround with the mca-c5 amp, trying to rebuild the interface myself, I found out that there were no direct Rio command for the MCA-C5 (According to the rio document, ZoneMuteOn was implemented in rio 1.09 and the mca-c5 only has 1.08)
Instead I used the remote command, like this
Mute support was merged last week, but missed cutoff for January hence why it won’t be available until Feb.
But yes, I do use that remote command. I check the firmware version (supported features from my upstream library), and if the unit supports the dedicated mute commands it will use that, otherwise it will use the remote command.
@noahhusby
Hi Noah, if you could implement one day the loudness function would be great - I use it quite frequently and I think it should be possible to implement:
One final question, are the wallpanels like MDK-C6 or C5 also implemented? I would like to see the music title on the wallpanels as well - if that would be possible