New user stuck

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Long time Homeseer user trying HA. I have a Yamaha RX-V479 that I’d like to turn off whenever the house goes to away mode. I’m able to trigger my home/away event from either homeseer or HA and it works. My Yamaha receiver was detected by HA and I added the integration and I can turn the amp on/off from my home dashboard.
I created an automation where the trigger is Home/Away changes to Away but there is no action for the Yamaha amp that doesn’t result in a malformed automation error.

I assume the action should be to a device and then select the amp as the device but it doesn’t show any “entities”(I think) that would turn off the amp. Under the musicast integration there is a list of entities that can be enabled or disabled and I found one for main power and enabled it. My Yamaha amp went offline for awhile then came back but nothing has changed.
Am I doing something wrong?

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Try to avoid using devices in automations.

You probably want to use a media_player service, which you’ll find under Call Service.

service: media_player.turn_off
data: {}
target:
  entity_id: media_player.YOUR_AMP_ID
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Avoid device actions, conditions, or triggers. Use all the other available methods instead. Get comfortable using entities over devices.

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Calling a media player service for the action solved the problem. Thanks Troon!

My goal is to move my monoprice 6 zone amp off of Homeseer and play music using Plex. I wrote a free Monoprice amp plugin available on the Homeseer forum so I have a very good understanding of how the amp itself works. I’ll go find some developer documentation on HA to try and get a better overview on how HA works.

Thanks for helping the newbie. :smiley:

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