Pioneer Receiver discussion

My pleasure and thank you for this awesome plugin. I have two Pioneer receivers and really want to take advantage of their features. I'm continuing to work through the on-screendisplay and will have the need to support unicode. Can you tell me a bit about this bug:

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#                               0.9.11 (26-Oct-2012, unreleased)
#                               *  Continued work on fixing the text encoding bug in the
#                                  processResponse method.  Changed the unicode() call by
#                                  specifying "errors='replace'" to force ASCII output. Also
#                                  added code to the readData method to force the response
#                                  from the receiver to be in ASCII.


I'd like to see if I can fix it.

Thanks.

Hi Nick

Great! Thanks for the help!

Hi Nick.

Yes. That particular bug was related to a plugin crash caused by a combination of outputting unicode characters in Indigo log output and a flaw in how Indigo 5 handled unicode in log output from plugins. I don't remember which version of Indigo 5 addressed that limitation, but I'm pretty sure it was fixed well before the most recent Indigo 5 patch and also shouldn't be an issue in Indigo 6 at all. Feel free to PM or email me if you'd like to discuss it or other coding issues in more detail.

Best of luck!

Hi Nathan,

I'm trying to use this great plugin to control my Pioneer 1120-k receiver. I was using it with the 1021-k selected but would get lots of command errors when turning on the receiver and the input sources were not returned correctly. Now I've tried selecting the 1123-k. It does not give the command errors and does a better job returning the sources. However, I frequently get the following messages in the log:

Pioneer Receiver Error Error in plugin execution runConcurrentThread:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "plugin.py", line 481, in runConcurrentThread
File "plugin.py", line 1821, in processResponse
<type 'exceptions.KeyError'>: u''

Pioneer Receiver Error plugin runConcurrentThread function returned or failed (will attempt again in 10 seconds)

Any ideas?

Thanks for this very useful plugin.

--Dave

Hi Dave.

Looking over Pioneer's RS-232 codes for the VSX-1120-K, it's really a lot more like the VSX-1021-K. The reason you're getting that error while controlling the VSX-1120-K as if it were a VSX-1123-K is because the 1120 is giving audio output status information in a different format than the 1123 does. Does the plugin work better if you define it as a VSX-1122-K or a SC-75?

As an 1122-k, it gives many command errors when querying the full receiver status as it loads. However, it returns a different subset of inputs with a bunch of blank lines as does the 1121-k configuration. Gives a state error in the device table also. No runconcurrentthread errors though.

An a SC-75, it gives some command errors when it gets the full receiver status and a state error. It also gives the runconcurrentthread errors. Nothing gets populated in the source list.

1123-k is the only one that doesn't give error as the state.

Hope this helps. Thanks.

--Dave

Okay. Thanks for the info. It looks as though the 1120 will have to be added as a separate device on its own in order to avoid those errors. That may take some time as it's a fairly tedious process to go through the Pioneer's RS-232 code definitions for a particular receiver and add or remove functions based on the model's specific abilities. I appreciate the feedback on the plugin.

That would be great, Nathan. Thanks so much. Let me know if there is anything I can do to help.

--Dave

Nathan,

While waiting for a possible 1120 device, is there anything I can do to suppress or filter the log entries. Not only do the errors clutter up the log, but every time I change the channel or skip ahead on the DVR (for example), I get a bunch of log entries dealing with listen mode, channel levels, etc.

Not a big deal but just thought I'd ask in case there was something easy I can do.

Thanks.

--Dave

Hi Dave.

Sorry man. Unfortunately there isn't any way to decrease the number of log messages. I know it can get to be a lot if there's a lot of activity on the receiver.

Regards,
Nathan

No prob. Thanks for letting me know, Nathan.

--Dave

Hey Nathan,
I finally got around to using your Pioneer plug-in , but I'm getting this error.

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Sep 25, 2015, 1:57:59 PM
  Pioneer Receiver Error          Error in plugin execution GetUiDynamicList:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "plugin.py", line 4876, in uiSourceList
<type 'exceptions.KeyError'>: key source48label not found in dict

It seems to be coming from "select input source", where there are no selections in the pull-down menu

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Plugin v1.0.6
Pioneer VSX-1123
OS 10.10.3
Indigo 6.1.1

I get this when ReLoading the plugin

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Sep 25, 2015, 4:02:50 PM
  Reloading plugin "Pioneer Receiver 1.0.6"
  Stopping plugin "Pioneer Receiver 1.0.6" (pid 34835)
  Stopped plugin "Pioneer Receiver 1.0.6"
  Starting plugin "Pioneer Receiver 1.0.6" (pid 35796)
  Received INSTEON                "HVAC Thermostat [casita]" temperature changed to 91.0
  Started plugin "Pioneer Receiver 1.0.6"
  AV [receiver]                   Connection established.
  AV [receiver]                   Gathering receiver system information.
  AV [receiver]                   volume (zone 1): -20.0 dB
  Pioneer Receiver Error          Error in plugin execution runConcurrentThread:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "plugin.py", line 481, in runConcurrentThread
  File "plugin.py", line 1854, in processResponse
  File "plugin.py", line 508, in updateDeviceState
<type 'exceptions.KeyError'>: 'key phaseControlPlusWorkingDelay not found in dict'

  Pioneer Receiver Error          plugin runConcurrentThread function returned or failed (will attempt again in 10 seconds)


Can anyone map out for me how I can achieve this:

KPL button pressed
iTunes on Indigo Server Mac
Play a "playlist"
Through Zone 2 of Pioneer Receiver


I'm confused as to what puzzle parts are needed, and what does what.
iTunes plugin?
Pioneer plugin [the only thing that could control zone 2]
AirFoil application? [Am I pointing it to the APPLICATION=iTunes?, if yes, then what is the speaker? The RECEIVER or Indigo Server Mac?]
AirFoil speakers? [Am I pointing it to the RECEIVER, or the Indigo Server Mac?]
AirFoil plugin?

What I've tried so far: [trigger]
Device State Changed
Keypad Button LED 8
Becomes On


[actions] PP= Pioneer Plugin, AF= Airfoil Plugin
PP - power ON (zone 2)
AF - airfoil: change audio source to iTunes
PP - select source (zone 2) *NO DATA IN MENU
PP - set volume (zone 2) to -20
AF - disconnect all speakers
AF - airfoil: connect to speaker Indigo Server Mac
- execute embedded Applescript
tell application "iTunes"
-- activate
-- delay 5
-- set shuffle of playlist "Security" to true
play playlist "Security"
end tell

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Pioneer Receiver Error          Error in plugin execution ExecuteAction:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "plugin.py", line 3116, in zone2setSource
<type 'exceptions.KeyError'>: key source not found in dict

  AV [receiver]                   power (zone 2): on
  AV [receiver]                   input source (zone 2): MEDIA SERVER
  Pioneer Receiver Error          Error in plugin execution runConcurrentThread:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "plugin.py", line 481, in runConcurrentThread
  File "plugin.py", line 1854, in processResponse
  File "plugin.py", line 508, in updateDeviceState
<type 'exceptions.KeyError'>: 'key phaseControlPlusWorkingDelay not found in dict'

  Pioneer Receiver Error          plugin runConcurrentThread function returned or failed (will attempt again in 10 seconds)


This seems to work BUT ONLY TO ZONE 1 speakers.

Pioneer Plugin v1.0.6
Pioneer VSX-1123
OS 10.10.3
Indigo 6.1.1
Airfoil 4.9
iTunes 12.1.0.50

Version 1.0.7 Released

• Fixed 2 bugs that caused the plugin to crash when communicating with the VSX-1123-K.

Hi Craig.

Hope the 1.0.7 update fixes all the errors. However, there may be more as I don't have any VSX-1123K to test against. Let me know if you see other errors.