Yamaha Receiver Control

Is anyone working on plugin to control a Yamaha AV receiver?

Some of the higher-end Yamaha receivers have a built-in web server, which I believe can be controlled via a restful api. I bet with a little clever scripting, you could add triggers to Indigo. As it so happens, I have one of the aforementioned receivers. If I come up with anything, I'll be sure to post it here!

[jay (support)]

If you don't want to write a full-on plugin to do it (which would be cool), you can try the Cynical Network plugin - it may do what you need it to.

Started work on this a few weeks ago, so far so good... I have basic control, just working to tidy up the interface a little bit and to see what the variances are in the API between models.

https://github.com/discgolfer1138/indigo_yamaharx

I'm using a Global Cache>IR to control mine (wish it had Ethernet or RS-232)

(I've only programed the IR codes *I* need; there's a TON for all commands)

I have this guy:
http://usa.yamaha.com/products/audio-vi ... mode=model

It has both ethernet and RS-232. I connect to it via ethernet and the plugin I am working on is essentially a wrapper for the web interface...

discgolfer1138

Kinda new to the plugin world...I have the same receiver and would love to be able to have even basic control over it through Indigo (change source of a zone, turn a zone on etc). I downloaded your plugin but don't see any installation (DMG) file. How do I install it? Do I simply put the files in an "plugins" folder? Thx

Rick

It seems like there may be a protocol change when dealing with different ranges of Yamaha Receivers. I have one from the Aventage Line (RX-A1010) which, unfortunately, this plugin errors out on. I'd be most grateful if someone knows how to make this plugin work with the RX-A1010. I was able to find the RX-A1010 Ethernet IF specification for YNC out on the web (thanks google) but as I know NOTHING about python or coding, I feel it's a bit over my head ATM.

I may have to learn python for this one.

[jay (support)]

Posting the link to the protocol specs will get you that much closer to help...

Sorry about that... I forgot to add the Link http://www.ceintegrator.com/attachments/yamaha_ip_serial_spec_usa-zip.6/.

Cool, thanks for the link! I'm collaborating with another engineer on plugin to control Foscam webcams at the moment, but will take a look at getting support for your model as soon as I can

(for anyone curious, here is the foscam plugin: https://github.com/discgolfer1138/indigo-foscam)

hmm.. link doesn't seem to work. no worries, I'm sure some google-fu will turn up something.

I also have the Yamaha RX-A1010.

The following message appears in the Event Log

Started plugin "Yamaha Rx Receiver 0.1.1"
Yamaha Rx Receiver Debug startup called
Yamaha Rx Receiver Debug updating status...

Yamaha Rx Receiver Error exception in deviceStartComm(Yamaha RX-A1010): 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'text'

The specs can be found here:

http://au.yamaha.com/en/products/audio- ... mode=model

Thanks in advance for any assistance.

Hello guys,

Any one had this plugin to work or is working on it?
I own a RX-V779BL and would like to be able to communicate with Indigo.
I'm stuck at the <type 'exceptions.AttributeError'>: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'text' error.

Thanks in advance.

Hi All

I have modified Ben's plugin (many thanks Ben & Chad) to get it to work with an RX-A1010 (Australian Version which does not support the Tuner - Radio Data System)

The following models share the same Function Tree (so it should work for them):

RX-A3010
RX-A2010
RX-A1010
RX-A810
RX-A710

RX-V3071
RX-V2071
RX-V1071
RX-V871
RX-V771
RX-V671

I have added basic control of "Party Mode" i.e. Toggle On/Off. Otherwise Zone 2 is not supported.

The file can be found as a branch on Chad's Github site.

https://github.com/Bleasel/indigo-yamaharx/tree/Bleasel