Denon have a range of wireless speakers called Denon Home. They are actually found by the Denon AVR integration, but I can’t configure them. Support for these speakers would be excellent as I could then send sound to them.
Have you clicked the configure button?
Yes. of course. That’s why I said “I can’t configure them”.
Not much of an error report. Logs? What does it actually say?
Well I was asking for a feature request, not reporting a bug, but I can do that.
Aren’t these devices running Denon HEOS? I don’t have 1 of those myself, but I do have some Denon HEOS Amp devices and an AVR, which all work using the HEOS integration
The AVR’s work just fine. It’s the HEOS Home which doesn’t seem to connect
Does it also not work with the HEOS integration? (Denon HEOS - Home Assistant)
For me, the AVR is integration with the Denon AVR integration, which works fine for most things, but when I want to play anything from HEOS, I need to go through the HEOS integration (Same as the HEOS amp devices)
OK, thanks, that was the answer. The Denon integration picks it up, which is why I was asking.
So, now I have the AVR twice.
So, maybe the ask is to merge the two integrations 
Those Denon home speakers have:
- Quick Start Mode (20 minutes of no operation)
- Deep Standby (60 minutes of no operation)
Can owners confirm that
- you can’t disable standby mode and
- you have to press some button on the speaker to exit standby mode after 60 minutes of no operation
Also what options available in Denon integration? Do you have to install HEOS app? Are you forced to create HEOS account?
Hello everyone,
I wanted to buy a speaker like this to be able to play sounds or music via Home Assistant.
However, the whole thing is of no use to me if I have to wake the speakers from standby or press a button.
Don’t the speakers wake up by themselves when you want to stream to them?
Is it even possible to stream music locally with Home Assistant WITHOUT spotify etc.?
Thank you all
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yea, that’s the most important question to me. Many wireless speakers have standby mode without option to disable it. And you can’t use it for real-time HA notifications or Text-to-speech in Voice Assistant.
I would never buy such speakers.
I have a Denon Home 250.
You can disable standby mode in the Heos app.
I have done some testing.
I have buttons in my kitchen (I built a box with 18 button and a ESP32 for this purpose) to control this speaker.
I can check this again but at least for enabled standby, I had to send a media_player command twice for the music to start.
I made a script that sends an url to play and after 5 seconds it checks if {{ states('media_player.denon') != 'playing' }} is true and if is it sends the same play command once more.
So you don’t have to actually click the buttons on the speaker to wake it up, you need to send the command twice.
But I have since that disabled the standby.
Now the music starts right away after the first click/command.
The modes I can choose from in the Heos app on my Android phone are:
- Automatic standby (standard)
- Quick start
@siobhan You can’t configure the speaker, HA treats it as a media_player. So you send commands to it like any other media player connected to HA.
What I do is send commands like:
# Play radio
- action: media_player.play_media
metadata: {}
data:
media_content_type: url
media_content_id: |-
'https://live1.sr.se/p1-aac-320'
target:
entity_id: media_player.denon
# Lower the volume
- action: media_player.volume_set
metadata: {}
data_template:
volume_level: "{{ states.media_player.denon.attributes.volume_level - 0.025 }}"
target:
entity_id: media_player.denon
# Stop
- action: media_player.media_stop
metadata: {}
data: {}
target:
entity_id: media_player.denon
I don’t play local music with it and if I want to play anything but genre specific radio stations I pick up my phone and “cast” it.
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This is good news, thanks for confirmation!
I might consider Denon Home 150 NV new version (without microphones and voice assistant) for local music playback and Piper TTS
I personally would like to avoid such workarounds with the speaker.