Monoprice Whole Home Audio controller 10761 success

[Montreal666]

Hi, seeking assistance to finalize installation of my newly acquired Xantech MRAUDIO8X8; there is a detailed post of my efforts on the other Xantech thread (link below) but I didn’t get feedback yet.

Xantech / Dayton Audio / Sonance multi-zone amps

You’re going to need a USB to serial RS232 cable, and either: a) your HA machine connected directly to the Dax88 rs232 port. No ser2net needed. Your “port” in the configuration.yaml should be “/dev/ttyUSB0”. Or, b) another machine, a Raspberry Pi in my case, connected to the Dax88 rs232 port. This machine needs to run ser2net. Your HA machine will essentially use this as a proxy to forward commands to the Dax88.

I would really appreciate if someone could chime in and provide guidance or troubleshooting tips.

PS: I have since purchased the recommended OIKWAN cable but still getting the same result / error messages.

Thank you!