How to solve: Denon AVR with 2-zones <-> 2 players in Music Assistant?

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I’ve a Denon AVR-X3600H, HEOS + Airplay2 enabled, which has 2 zones. I’m trying to make those available in Music Assistant. Mostly I just want to be able to play music easily to zone 2, with a queue controlled by Music Assistant, etc. (zone 1 is primarily for my home theatre and rarely controlled by home assistant), but obviously the more seamless things are the better, and if I could do text-to-speech that would be nice.

In home assistant I have experimented with 3 things:

  1. Denon AVR Network Receivers Integration - and through that I have two media_player entities, one for each zone (media_player.zone_1, media_player.zone_2)
  2. Denon HEOS Integration - and through that I have one media_player entity (media_player.denon).
  3. Universal media player integration - and through that created a new media_player entity with the zone_2 as a child.

In Music Assistant, all I can see is, from the Heos player provider, a single “Denon” player.

I don’t see anything about multiple zones. And I don’t see anything in Music Assistant which seems to correspond to the two media players from “1” or the one player from “3” above. Those media_players are ignored by/incompatible with music assistant?

Can anyone clear up my confusion? What is the right way to set Music Assistant up for a 2-zone Denon/HEOS AVR? I’ve researched/read quite a lot - hence my trying with all of 1+2+3 above. But somehow all still failing…

Frankly, while flexibility is nice, I’d be happy with it statically or automatically configured to only ever play on zone 2 (although that might require some automation to change the Denon’s settings just before trying to play each time?).

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There is similar discussion on pioneer... but on discord Discord

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go to the integration and enable zone 2.

Works fine here with the same receiver...

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That is ok when you play from HA...but how do you play from Music Assistant to that device

EDIT, I just discovered that one can add a HA Media Player to MA so that should do the trick.

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VinceDD, did any of this help you? If not I might be able to help. I hate HEOS period. I have this working with an Automation pretty good to play a music playlist on Tidal. As far as using it in the Music Assistant App it is a little convoluted, especially to just skip a track in a playlist or album. I really stink at following up in the forums but you can hit me up in my email [email protected].