Interactions with Denon speaker

[Arnaud]

Good morning,

I own a Denon Heos connected speaker.

I can launch a PLAY or STOP Telnet on this one,

Unfortunately when I try to do it from Loxone (outputs and virtual controls) nothing happens.

Has anyone managed to drive a HEOS speaker?

I looked at the topic on the German forum, but the screenshots are old and mostly... in German... 

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[njamessimpson]

Any joy. Would love to have a solution too!

[Arnaud]

Hi,

I succeeded!!!!!!!! 

I had to get to page 13 of the tutorial on the German forum but it works!

here are some captures of my configuration.

for the detail of how to get the PID etc. I suppose you know the commands to enter with putty

Create a virtual Outpout

configured as follows (of course, replace ip adress)

(don't forget to check CLOSE CONNECTION....)

Insert a Virtual Outp Command

configured like this (this is an example, HEOS CLI is documented you'll find details on German forum)

VERY IMPORTANT : /r/n at the end of each command... it's new, and obviously it was my problem.

I have configured a radio (TuneIn) as favorites in the HEOS application. 

With this command, I start listening to this radio.

on the German forum, they say that you also need a virtual exit to "authenticate" at Heos... I don't know if it is necessary, in case of doubt I created it like that (login and password of your HEOS account)

the syntax is this : heos://system/sign_in?un=YOUR_EMAIL&pw=YOURPASS\r\n

and connect it to Start Impulse like this (i've add a virtual input to in order to launch it just in case ..)

Upload configuration in Miniserver ... and enjoy.

lot of things to do know : configure a ergonomic bloc, try to launch MP3 from Nas for alarms, intercom, etc.... 

[Andras]

Why not simply put in a raspberry with nodered on it to act as a "broker" between Loxone and the Denon? This is what I did for all of my hard to integrate devices.

[Arnaud]

Because I want to keep a configuration that is easy to maintain.

In this case, the main objective is to replace the Music server for notifications (Alarms, intercom).

As a result, the live configuration is quite simple. 

A raspberry is a computer, therefore an additional device that consumes electricity, that needs to be updated, sometimes repaired, that talks on the computer network, etc.

[Andras]

Valid point, it's a few new pieces of components added to the integration. In this case though I think the new possibilities adding a broker brings outweigh the disadvantages of having to maintain it - weighing is your call of course.

[Harry Phelps]

I am trying to be able to recall favourites from my Denon Heos N10. The power on and power off commands from the Denon AV Receiver download in the Loxone Library. They have preset recalls in there too but they don’t work with my N10. I have found a document (https://assets.denon.com/documentmaster/uk/avr1713_avr1613_protocol_v860.pdf) which lists the available commands in the Denon IP control protocol, they include favourites but trying them out hasn’t worked.

The preset commands from the library look like this:

MSQUICK2\r

The favourite commands from the doc look like this:

ZMFAVORITE1<CR>

I have tried replacing the favourite command in the VO with various other commands eg ZMFAVORITE1\r but with no luck.

Does anyone know how or if I might be able to recall these favourites from Loxone?

I then saw this post from Arnaud while searching the forum before posting, I have tried sending FAVORITE1\r\n andFAVORITE1/r/n with no luck. DO I take it from Arnaud’s post that I have to logon to my HEOS before being able to send commands?

As an aside I am sending the test commands by editing the VO, compiling the config and sending to the miniserver then waiting for it to reboot, does anyone know a quicker way to do this?

Thanks in advance for any help offered