Denon Receiver Actuator Turning on All Zones

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Hello, When I turn on my Denon AVR parent device via:

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Both the parent and child devices are turned on:

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Is it possible to control the power of the zones separately?

Thanks!

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Are you using the inbuilt driver? If yes there is a separate child device for each zone that you can control the power. I find if I leave my zone2 on when I turn off the main power it will turn it back on when I turn on main power. If it was off prior it remains off.

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Yes

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Are you sure? Can you please create a rule to test using this action:

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Enable rule logging:
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And device logging:
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And share your logs.

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Well you are correct zone 2 and zone 3 turned on along with the main zone. I know it didn't used to be this way. But to be honest I don't use HE to turn on the main zone, only off and only automate Zone 2's on.

@mike.maxwell did something change with the Denon driver where Zone 2 and Zone 3 automatically turn on with the main zone? If yes could this be disabled or maybe a preference to control that? Debug logs invoking on() on the main device:

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Nothing with this driver has changed

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Thank you for confirming. I honestly don't automate turning on the main zone so this has probably been the case for years when you helped me create the original driver.

I did some more tests with debug logging and see that PWON is being sent which does turn on all zones. @mike.maxwell Could you possibly change that to be ZMON instead or have a preference to switch between the two? Then off should also be ZMOFF in case users want their other zones to remain on. PWSTANDBY will turn off all zones.

@Busthead in the mean time change your rule's custom command to Send Msg and use a string parameter and enter ZMON this will only turn on the main zone.

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That sounds like the way to go

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That worked! Thank you.

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@mike.maxwell any chance you could implement this new preference so turning the main device on doesn’t turn on all zones? I was testing something today and turned on my AVR via HE and mistakenly left my Z2 and Z3 on by mistake because I forgot they turn on with the main zone. Thanks!

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