I’m owning a Pioneer VSX 921 that I kind of hate from the beginning - the frontend / usability is so 80th. However, it does what it should to most of the time. I was amazed how easy the integration via the “platform: pioneer” module was.
However, I’ve an additional set of speakers attached to the ‘2nd zone’ of the pioneer - those go into bathroom / kitchen. Via standard python I developed a ‘watchdog’ that does a couple of things:
If the input is switched, apply default profile & volume (e.g. Sat shall have lower volume than Tuner. Sat is 5:1 - Tuner + Chromecast are stereo)
If input of zone 1 is switched, apply same input to zone 2
That works reasonably well, but I think the messy telnet interface doesn’t work to good with dual scripts constantly connecting. So i was wondering of moving the logic to HomeAssistant.
From a usability / IT perspective the receiver is not worth its money. Unfortunatly that might be an industry issue, when looking for an alternate solution briefly it seems to be state of the art.
Yes, I have a solution that works for my specific scenario. I’m not sure I’ll get together all details ad hoc.
I have replaced the following file with a customized version:
That works fine for me - unless the Pioneer messes up - and he likes to do that. His telnet interface is limited to a single sessions and if the session dies it will not do telnet until replugged. I think there is a session timeout, but it seems to be >24hours. That’s a big downside, but the issue is inside the Pioneer. I haven’t seen advertising on the current models that they would have a proper interface, e.g. a Rest API, unfortunatly.