Onkyo TX-NR7100 volume control

Third party integrations
1

Hi

I’m having some trouble setting up a button to change the volume on my Onkyo receiver.
In the Developer tools Actions I’m able to change the volume with this yaml:

action: media_player.volume_down
target:
  entity_id:
    - media_player.receiver
data: {}

But if I copy this into a button card, it no longer works.

type: custom:button-card
icon: mdi:volume-minus
tap_action: media_player.volume_down
target:
  entity_id:
    - media_player.receiver
data: {}

I change action to tap_action to make it clickable.

I run Home assistant on bare metal (Dell Optiplex)

  • Core2024.8.2
  • Supervisor2024.08.0
  • Operating System13.0
  • Frontend20240809.0

Has anyone run into similar problems?

Tobbe

2

It (mostly) doesn’t go that way in button card… In this case your indentation (and some other things) is wrong.
Here’s my example:

type: custom:button-card
name: Volume DOWN
icon: mdi:volume-minus
tap_action:
  action: call-service
  service: media_player.volume_down
  target:
    entity_id: media_player.onkyo_receiver
3

Thank you, you solved it for me!
It works just like it is supposed to.

For anyone else looking for a solution that can repeatedly press the button while holding it down, this is my solution:

type: custom:button-card
icon: mdi:volume-minus
tap_action:
  action: call-service
  service: media_player.volume_down
  target:
    entity_id: media_player.receiver
hold_action:
  action: call-service
  service: media_player.volume_down
  target:
    entity_id: media_player.receiver
  repeat: 200

Tobbe

4

Yeah, i tried repeat action, but it’s hard to use on tablet or phone, since if you move finger a bit “hold” is immediately stopped, so you must really hold finger very still or it stops working quite quickly…