volume control

kelmk
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volume control

Post by kelmk »

Hi what would be the best way to control a receiver volume through homekit? I thought maybe volume could be remapped as a dimmer somehow? -40 - 0 mapped to 0-100 maybe?
Or even a simple volume up +5/-5 would I have to make a switch for each of these and use the same vol up for on and off? Seems a bit clunky and I'm not sure how the voice command would work. "hey siri turn on volume up" isn't ideal.

Thanks for any suggestions
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Colorado4Wheeler
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Re: volume control

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Sorry for the late reply, I've been on a project. It depends on how your receiver talks to Indigo. Is it plugin based? IR controls?
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kelmk
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Re: volume control

Post by kelmk »

My reciever is controlled with the Yamaha rx plugin for indigo. It has options for vol up vol down and set volume and it returns the volume status.
A work around I have found for now is an equivalent homebridge plugin which does exactly what I'm looking for. Volume shows up as a dimmer light.
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