Shell command to control onkyo via eiscp

[bishop]

Hello,

I’m new to HA and am considering replacing my current home automation with HA.
To make sure I can do all that I need, I am currently playing around with hass.io and, despite looking quite a bit on the forum, I could not find how to do the following:

I want to send command to my onkyo receiver via eiscp. This is possible with a full fledged HA installation as detailed in this post:

https://community.home-assistant.io/t/onkyo-component-controls/17020

However in the case of hassio, I don’t know which path to use to call the onkyo component (basically what should I use instead of “/srv/homeassistant/homeassistant_venv/bin/onkyo” ).

I’ve tried various path but could not figure out the correct one.

Note: I know I can install custom components in hassio, but since the onkyo component is already integrated in HA, I don’t want to install a new component, I just want to be able to call the existing one.
PS: I tried to search for the component using SSH (connecting to the hassio machine), but since hassio runs inside a docker, I don’t know how to search for the path inside that docker …

Thanks a lot for your help

[sebk-666 (Sebastian)]

I’m not using hassio but I’m running HA using the “regular” Docker image.
The onkyo command in that one is at /usr/local/bin/onkyo.

You can get a shell inside a running Docker container by typing “docker exec -ti <container> /bin/bash”.
From there, a simple “find / -name onkyo” will show you where the file is located.

Sebastian

[bishop]

@sebk-666

find / -name onkyo

Thanks a lot for the answer. It seems however that hassio does not behave the same way. The path you mentioned does not work for me and “docker” is not recognized as a valid command in the SSH command line of hassio. I guess hassos is quite restricted in terms of commands.

Any other hints welcome

[lolouk44]

out of interest, why are you not using HA’s built in Onkyo component? I use it and it works great…

[bishop]

I am actually using the HA built in Onkyo component for controlling the volume and input sources. However, as far as I have seen, the built in component does not enable to start web radios or control other network sources which the Onkyo can do. For this I have read on the forum that I need to send the commands via the eiscp command line. That’s why I need the path of the built in Onkyo component so I can send commands using a command line script… Am I going at it the wrong way, or should I install a full fledged version of Home Assistant instead of hassio ?

[lolouk44]

Ah OK. Then yes you’d need the shell commands for this. Personally I’ve not give down that road I use the chromecast feature to send online audio to my onkyo
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[fbcohoas (fabriba)]

Sorry for pasting this in many different conversations, but it seems it may be useful to other users like myself who are relatively new to hassio and may have a hard time finding the info in different conversations, I think this summarizes all I found in an afternoon of research (and finally I got it working!)

what I found on https://github.com/home-assistant/core/issues/1578 is that by modifying the configuration.yaml adding the following lines, it is possible to activate and turn off the onkyo:

  - platform: command_line
    switches:
      onkyo_test:
        command_on: "/usr/local/bin/onkyo system-power=on SLI23"
        command_off: "/usr/local/bin/onkyo system-power=standby"

for that to work in gui: you go on lovelace, and add a button called -in my example- onkyo_test.

This worked.

following the above, there are a ton of commands that should be usable and they are documented here:

miracle2k/onkyo-eiscp

in particular, once you understand the logic, the file
https://github.com/miracle2k/onkyo-eiscp/blob/b27e8158c09b04a2160e395d9710f6748f431bf5/eiscp-commands.yaml
is particularly rich of information , for example there are commands to setup listening-mode (stereo, direct, etc), audyssey-dynamic-eq, late-night, music-optimizer-sound-retriever, audyssey-dynamic-volume, preset-memory / preset / internet-radio-preset (1-40 for network radios eg), etc etc etc

hope this helps

[fbcohoas (fabriba)]

find / -name onkyo returns nothing after latest upgrade…

anyone knows what happened / how to fix?

[PCPETE (Peter Conteos)]

Broken here as well…

[craigmdennis (Craig Dennis)]

@fbcohoas

- platform: command_line
    switches:
      onkyo_test:
        command_on: "/usr/local/bin/onkyo system-power=on SLI23"
        command_off: "/usr/local/bin/onkyo system-power=standby"

I’d been searching for so long trying to figure out how to do this! I combined it with a Sensor so that I get get all the sources for my Onkyo receiver.

For those that find this coming from the Onkyo - Home Assistant page this is how I achieved it:

Add this to configuration.yml (replacing the IP with that of your Onkyo receiver).

sensor:
  - platform: command_line
    name: onkyo_test
    command: "/usr/local/bin/onkyo --host 192.168.1.231 source=query"

And add a glance card to the dashboard for the sensor. It will update after every input change!

[prodarek]

Hello,

I tried use sensor:

• platform: command_line
  name: onkyo input state
  scan_interval: 3
  command: “/usr/local/bin/onkyo --host 192.168.xx.x SLIQSTN”

but looks like this is not possible if in configuration.yaml I have turn on media player

media_player:

• platform: onkyo

someone know solution? I need this sensor method to read input state data when onkyo is turn off.

[pappaloo]

Brilliant! I made a HDMI selector from a binary_sensor, much easier than using automation/script.