Integrate knx & russound

Third party integrations
1

hi all, this is my first post :slight_smile:
i was using lifedomus / Linknx / jeedom & now playing with HA, and seems wonderfull !

Russound (cam6.6) & knx work fine. Now i try to integrate them together. But i don’t find the method to.

i use zennio ZAS included in GAD 9/3/10 to switch on/off Zone1 of RUSSOUND.
media_player.yaml

- platform: russound_rnet
  host: 192.168.1.251
  port: 100
  name: Russound
  zones:
    1:
      name: RDC.Cuisine

I tryied the code below in automation.yaml

expose: 
  - type: 'DPT-1'
    entity_id: 'media_player.RDC.Cuisine'
    address: '9/3/10'

tks for your help !

2

Expose has to be a direct child of Knx. Binary values require type “binary” instead of “DPT-1”.

knx:
  expose:
    - type: "binary"
      ....

Good luck!

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hello, tks for your help !
i realized my mistake after asking help :slight_smile:

but now, i have error message while checking conf

Invalid config for [knx]: Entity ID media_player.Russound.RDC.Cuisine.object_id is an invalid entity id for dictionary value @ data['knx']['expose'][2]['entity_id']. Got 'media_player.Russound.RDC.Cuisine.object_id'. (See /config/configuration.yaml, line 82).

expose:  
  - type: 'time'
    address: '4/6/11'
  - type: 'datetime'
    address: '4/6/10'
  - type: 'binary'
    entity_id: 'media_player.Russound.RDC.Cuisine'
    address: '9/3/10'

i also tryied using automation, but no result

- alias: "knx_to_Russound On"
  trigger:
    - platform: state
      to: "on"
      entity_id: switch.RUS_Z1_Cuisine_ON_Off
  action:
    service: media_player.turn_on
    data:
      entity_id: media_player.Russound.RDC.Cuisine
- alias: "knx_to_Russound Off"
  trigger:
    - platform: state
      to: "off"
      entity_id: switch.RUS_Z1_Cuisine_ON_Off
  action:
    service: media_player.turn_off
    data:
      entity_id: media_player.Russound.RDC.Cuisine
4

Looks like ‘media_player.Russound.RDC.Cuisine’ is not an entity_id. Have a look at Developer-Tools - States to find the correct entity_id and what it’s state is (if it’s not “on” or “off” it’s probably not binary)

Maybe you can work out something with upcoming (0.110) expose attribute function. https://github.com/home-assistant/core/pull/35154
Or you go the old route of creating a template sensor.

Edit: Anyway expose is used for sending HA states to Knx. It seems like you want to trigger a HA state from Knx, are you?

5

as i am really newbie, it is quite complicated to understand how to.
My need is exactly to send On or Off to a zone of russound media player.
but if i switch off this zone from russound, of course, the status has to be sent to knx : i understand that this is using expose :slight_smile:

1/ media player sends status to knx using Expose :
using dev tools, it seems “media_player.russound_rdc_cuisine” is correct

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using knx / expose

  - type: 'binary'
    entity_id: 'media_player.russound.rcd.cuisine'
    address: '9/3/10'

i get issue by checking

Invalid config for [knx]: Entity ID media_player.russound.rcd.cuisine is an invalid entity id for dictionary value @ data[‘knx’][‘expose’][2][‘entity_id’]. Got ‘media_player.russound.rcd.cuisine’. (See /config/configuration.yaml, line 82).

2/ Russound gets status from knx
what is the solution here ? Using automation ??

- alias: "knx_to_Russound Off"
  trigger:
    - platform: state
      to: "on"
      entity_id: switch.RUS_Z1_Cuisine_ON_Off
  action:
    service: media_player.turn_off
    data:
      entity_id: media_player.Russound.RDC.Cuisine
- alias: "knx_to_Russound On"
  trigger:
    - platform: state
      to: "off"
      entity_id: switch.RUS_Z1_Cuisine_ON_Off
  action:
    service: media_player.turn_on
    data:
      entity_id: media_player.Russound.RDC.Cuisine

EDIT : This entity does not have a unique ID, therefore its settings cannot be managed from the UI.

tks again.

6

And

may be the problem.

Also a Knx Switch object could be used. Search for connecting Hue and Knx. It is the same problem but with much more search results.

7

yes, i understand that the problem seems to be “media_player.russound.rcd.cuisine”.
i am really blocked and have no idea of why media is not usable here.

going to continue searching & trying to understand
…
many tks

EDIT : i understood the mistake after re re reading : rdc vs rcd, but same issue

8

I meant “_” vs “.” but you are right with rdc and rcd too :rofl:

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9

So have you tried to replace the dots with underscores? In the linked Thread you seem to have the same problem.

To my understanding “Media_player” is the Domain, the entity is separated with a dot and then no more dots. So “media_player.russound_rdc_cuisine” would be a correct entity id (whereas “media_player.russound.rcd.cuisine” Is not).

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10

hello, works fine now ! my fault was as you said mixing “.” “_” & uppercases ! tks for your help.