Issue with Russound / RIO

Third party integrations
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I’m having some success using Russound and RIO, with the following exception - every few hours or so, I get the following error in hass:

2019-01-23 01:17:19 ERROR (MainThread) [russound] Unhandled exception in IO loop
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "/srv/homeassistant/lib/python3.6/site-packages/russound_rio/rio.py", line 171, in _ioloop
        response = net_future.result()
      File "/usr/lib/python3.6/asyncio/streams.py", line 488, in readline
        line = yield from self.readuntil(sep)
      File "/usr/lib/python3.6/asyncio/streams.py", line 581, in readuntil
        yield from self._wait_for_data('readuntil')
      File "/usr/lib/python3.6/asyncio/streams.py", line 464, in _wait_for_data
        yield from self._waiter
      File "/usr/lib/python3.6/asyncio/selector_events.py", line 725, in _read_ready
        data = self._sock.recv(self.max_size)
    ConnectionResetError: [Errno 104] Connection reset by peer

This error kills the connectivity between hass and my Russound player, and the only way so far to fix the problem is to restart hass. Can anybody offer any help?

Thx

Stan

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same issue here… have you found any solution?

3

Sort of. I have a script that runs once an hour via an automation that just gets the current volume level from the Russound. Pinging the Russound once an hour seems to keep the connection open.

Hope this helps

Stan

4

would you mind to share?

5

Sure. The automation gets the current volume level of the zone ‘master_bed’ and sets the Russound to the same level. It’s possible that doing just one or the other would also keep the connection alive but I didn’t want to take a chance. :slight_smile:

- alias: Russound connection hack
  initial_state: True
  trigger:
    platform: time_pattern
    minutes: 59
  action:
   - service: media_player.volume_set
     data_template:
       entity_id: media_player.master_bed
       volume_level: '{{ states.media_player.master_bed.attributes.volume_level }}'
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As a Total newb where would I put this script? and can I change ‘master_bed’ to any one of my sources e.g Living_room.

Thanks

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This is really late, but for any googlers seeing this, you need to add that code to your “automations.yml” file. Find it in the File Editor tab.

Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem to completely fix the issue. I’ve found it keeps my MCA-C5 connected for longer, but overnight it will still disconnect, prompting the need to restart Homeassistant.

I’m somewhat savvy with this kind of stuff, so if somebody has any hints as to what might be causing the issue I can try to revise the integration code.

EDIT: So the automation fails if your target zone is ever off due to the volume attribute disappearing on the entity when turned off. As a workaround, I changed the action to toggle a random zone to essentially cycle it. This seems to have done the trick. A bandaid fix for now, but I plan on changing the automation to simply read a zone’s current power state and execute a command to keep it in that state. If that works, I’ll post the automation code here.

8

I issue this command every 30 minutes and that seems to keep my telnet connection active.
GET C[1].Z[3].mute

9

Do you know what exactly the command does? I’m assuming it retrieves the status of one of the channels regarding whether it’s muted or not?

10

Correct, it just quarries the current status of mute on zone 3.

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11

I recently took over development of the Russound RIO integration & library.

I added an automatic keep-alive msg (by calling the RIO “VERSION” cmd) every 15 minutes. This prevents the connection from falling asleep and is baked into the integration so no additional automations are necessary.

This will be available in HA 2024.8 when it is released in August.

12

Thanks so much man. This has been super annoying to monkey with. I’d use RNET since my HAOS is running on a little box with a bunch of serial ports, but the RNET integration only works over IP (not sure why I can’t just specify the hardware port ID) and I really don’t want to setup an entire 3rd device as an intermediary… I can wait until August.

13

I was confused as to why all of my zones disappeared after a recent update. After checking the release notes I was pleasantly surprised to see that there was a new Russound integration included in the latest update.

Thanks so much for making that happen! Glad to finally have everything working properly without any weird hacks needed.

14

Hi there just wanted to say thank you for this !!!

I have always had constant issues with my russound unit , up until the point that I started swapping zones for pi + hifiberry units.

I updated this week and loaded up your integration, it’s been rock solid for a good 5 days straight.

Thank you again .

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