[BETA RELEASE] Denon AVR Driver

Apps and Drivers
#1

After a few weeks of development, I am releasing my Denon AVR Driver for some brave souls to try. It is a BETA driver, and does some VERY non-traditional driver development. It might do bad things, there is no warranty. That said, I have built this driver to be FULLY configurable so I can add children devices and ANY command easily. If you are brave, take a look!

FAQ

  • Will this work on my device? I Have no idea. This is workiing on a Denon 3400H. That being said, it is based on the API documentation located HERE
  • Wow, my whole hub crashed. Please read my introduction
  • I want other features! I have included the one I care about. Let me know, I'll take a look
  • I looked at your driver. I have no idea what is going on! Welcome to the club. As I said, this driver is doing some Groovy magic

Features

  • Entire driver is BUILT at runtime based on configuration structures. Adding support for new commands is simply as adding a line or so of code.
  • Zone 2 support - Yea!
  • Speaker support
  • Zone 3 support (if someone asks for it)
  • Supports about 70% of available commands (let's be honest, there are alot of them).

I have put it through the paces and it seems to be working, I need some community eyes on it.

File Locations

Please install all these files. They are the main and child device drivers. Set up a virtual device of the Main Driver type and then setup the child devices from the Main Driver configuration page.

Main Driver: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tchoward/Hubitat/master/Denon_AVR_Master.groovy
Zone 2: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tchoward/Hubitat/master/Denon_AVR_Zone2_Child.groovy
Speakers: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tchoward/Hubitat/master/Denon_AVR_Speaker_Child.groovy

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#2

Zone 2 (and even 3) support is huge! Looking forward to trying this driver out.

Will you add to HPM at some point?

Thanks for sharing!

Edit: my Marantz receiver has a zone 3, I don’t really use it yet but I’m happy to test it out if support for that is added at some point.

#3

Try out the driver and let me know. Adding Zone 3 support would take 5 minutes. I have not provided too many details, but the driver auto-generates the commands and functions. I want to make sure it does not do anything "bad" to people's hubs before making it available more generally. I'll add Zone 3 tonight.

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#4

Sorry that took longer to try out than I intended!

Driver seems to be working fine in terms of basic features. Nothing’s blown up on the hub since I installed it either.

I don’t quite understand what the speaker child device does?

#5

YES!

#6

So... my device has the ability to control speaker volume individually (it’s in the API). It was an experiment in using the config method... It works... is it useful? I doubt it.

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#7

2021-01-28 08:07:33.514 am errorjava.lang.StackOverflowError: null on line 285 (installed)

Error is from zone 2 device. Which also got created as "null Zone2" and it doesn't look like it's taking a rename.

Also, I'm not seeing where the "source" is selectable?

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Also seems to be missing a refresh or current states (input) on zone 2.

SOOOOO not complaining and trying to aid in testing :slight_smile: If you get this all sorted out this will be awesome for those of us that have really been wanting Zone 2 support!

#8

I see. It can adjust the volume to each channel manually. I have a Marantz SR8015 and I think it could probably do that, but I use the Audessey tuning to automatically set each speaker level.

#9

Nice driver, works well with my AVR-S650H. Thanks!

#10

Been waiting for this since I switched from Vera. Works great with my receiver--thanks!