@mike.maxwell because in reading the old threads it seems like you are the one in charge of the built in Denon AVR driver.
Would it be possible for you to update this driver to incorporate Music Player capability? That would seemingly make it far more versatile as it would work with dashboards, etc. Hopefully it would also allow selecting the input source via dropdown on EZ Dash (but I’m not sure and if not, please also consider that a feature request).
Thanks.
My understanding from other home automation platforms is that it would have to be done with a HEOS driver and go through the cloud. I dont see the data necessary exposed through the IP/telnet interface to support music player capability.
You should be able to do this now with hubitat dashboards, it has WAY more features then ez dashboards.
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE explain how to do this….
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Yes, I’m familiar with how to build legacy Dashboards. They were the only thing we had when I started 4.5 years ago. But there is seemingly no way to select the input source…
You can add a tile for the AVR, select attribute, and then select input, but all it does is tell you what the current input device is; it does not allow you to select a different input device.
The only way I know to select another input device is to make a virtual switch for every input device and set up a bunch of definitions in button controller or rule machine and then put a tile for every virtual switch on the dashboard. I was hoping for a simple (non programmer) way to get a dropdown of the data that is already there from which I could select. I’ve seen some posts refer to http and mqqt and web something but I’m not a programmer and I have no idea what they are talking about. I just want to select input on a dashboard…
I think this is what makes this feature request somewhat infeasible.
The AVR isn’t, in general, a music player. A source device connected to the AVR is.
Denon’s local API (which the Hubitat driver uses) doesn’t appear to have commands like play, pause, rewind, etc., many of the basic commands a music player would use.
As @sidjohn1 mentioned, HEOS is Denon’s network media player branding and most recent Denon AVRs contain a built-in HEOS player. So in that case, the AVR is the music player.
And there was a community-developed Hubitat integration for HEOS. It worked just fine, including on dashboards as a media player tile. Although it was cloud-dependent (by HEOS design, no other way for Hubitat to interact with it).
Unfortunately the integration hasn’t been supported for years and I don’t know if it still works.