Pioneer with Sonos

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I have a Sonos speaker in my kitchen and a Sonos Connect. The two Sonos devices are grouped. The Sonos Connect is conneted to my Pioneer VSX-924 and is playing on Zone 2 only.

I’m trying to create the following automation:

a) Whenever the Sonos in in the Kitchen is playing I want Zone 2 on the VSX-924 to turn on and set the volume to a certain level for Zone 2.

b) Whenever the Sonos stops playing (i.s. is paused) then I wants the VSX-924 to wait 10 minutes and if it does not start playing again before the 10 minutes have passed, then it should turn off Zone 2 and reset the volume to the level it was at before a) occured.

Whatever happens on Zone 1 should of no concern to the automation as Zone 1 is in a different room altogether.

I’ve added the Pioneer media_player to Home Assistant. So far, so good. Unfortunately, it does not seem to recognize Zones. Is this true?

So I was thinking that maybe I should use Onkyo, which seems to recognize zones. Unfortunately, I’m unable to verify if this is the way forward, because even if I change the configuration.yaml file:

from:

media_player:
   - platform: pioneer
   ...

to:

media_player:
   - platform: onkyo
   ...

… then Home Assistance still seem to insist that it only knows about the Pioneer media_player and nothing about Onkyo.

Making those changes, I would have expected the Pioneer media_player to disappear and the Onkyo media_player to appear, but that does not seem to be the way the cookie crumbles, which I do find a bit odd. Even removing the media_player section altogether, does not seem to remove the Pioneer AVR?!

Any help with the above would be highly appreciated.

Update:
The issue related to media_player corrected itself after leaving Home Assistant alone for a couple of hours. Never found out why.

Onkyo was not the right platform for VSX-924. The right platform is pioneer.

I still haven’t figured out how to configure an HA automation for controlling Zone 1 and Zone 2 separately on Pioneer VSX-924 as described above.

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I believe the Pioneer component is part of the discovery settings, so it will auto show up in HA, unless you disable it, try something like this in your configuration.yaml

discovery:
  ignore:
    - pioneer

then try setting it up manually again. This is how I have mine setup, but I dont use zone’s, but might give you a starting point.

media_player:
  - platform: pioneer
    host: !secret pioneer_host
    name: Pioneer Amp
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Thank you @Cee

It does not seem that Pioneer is part of Discovery: https://www.home-assistant.io/components/discovery/

This also align with my previous observations, as Pioneer indeed did not show up until I added it manually. However, after I did add it manually, I’m unable to make it go away, so I can try and replace it with Onkyo.