Pioneer Receiver discussion

[nsheldon]

You are an absolute genius.. that’s a brilliant idea.. will make it a lot easier for the other half to understand

Haha. Thanks! I can't say it was entirely my idea, but I'm glad you like it. Yes, it certainly makes volume control a bit more intuitive, especially when using the Indigo Touch app and with control pages.

[durosity]

Well regardless it’s still a nifty idea.. and you are a genius for creating such a useful plugin!

I’m wondering.. is there some way of limiting the “brightness” of the device? i wouldn’t want to accidentally set it to 100% and blow my speakers!

[nsheldon]

I’m wondering.. is there some way of limiting the “brightness” of the device? i wouldn’t want to accidentally set it to 100% and blow my speakers!

Currently, no... unless there's a feature in the 922 to limit maximum volume level. It is something I'd considered, though. That may be a feature I add to the Virtual Volume Controller device in a future version of the plugin.

[durosity]

I’ll have a look see if i can do that on the 922. In the mean time you go update your plugin. I demand it’s updated by tomorrow. Work through the night if you need to…

Many thanks for all your help!

[nsheldon]

Hahaha! I'll get right on that.

[ckeyes888]

Having a problem getting my VSX-1122 recognized on my network.
My Mac Mini Indigo server is on wifi so I had assumed I could share
it's Ethernet connection in prefs and connect the receiver to it's ethernet port.

The receiver is showing a 192.168.2.2 IP when connected but the setup app and plugin won't see it.

Should it be possible to wire it to the Mini in that way?

Thanks,

Carl

[nsheldon]

Hi Carl.

Though it might be possible to get it to work that way, I suspect it's going to be a lot more trouble than it's worth. I'd recommend connecting your receiver directly to your router via Ethernet. If you can't do that, you might consider connecting the receiver via Ethernet to an AirPort Express that's configured to connect to your network over wi-fi (doing that is probably cheaper than buying the wi-fi dongle Pioneer wants you to buy to get wi-fi enabled on the receiver directly).

There are all kinds of networking issues in using a computer's shared Internet connection for something like your receiver that is expected to be connected to the network at all times. That level of network troubleshooting is well beyond the scope of this thread for sure.

[ckeyes888]

Kinda what I thought. Time to run some wire.

Isn't there a standby mode it can be in that if I send it an AirPlay command
would wake it up and play it?

From what I'm gathering so far it would seem that I need to send it an on
command from the plugin before doing any input switching etc?

Was hoping that it may function like my ancient Sony and switch on
whenever an input was selected. This unit does take a very long time to
boot up.

Many thanks,

Carl

[nsheldon]

From my experience with the VSX-1021-K, as long as Network Standby is enabled in your VSX settings (not sure how you get there on the 1122), it'll automatically switch on and to the AirPlan/Network audio input whenever you connect any device to it via AirPlay.

And yes, you do have to turn it on (either via remote, front panel, or via Ethernet with the Pioneer Receiver plugin in Indigo) before you can select an input. The 1021 takes a few seconds to "start up" as well, though I wouldn't be surprised if the 1122 took a bit longer with it's added network features.

[ckeyes888]

Thanks for the info. Did run a test Cat5 line over to it from my router and all seems well.
Think I'm going to love this plugin!

Carl

[nsheldon]

Great! Glad to hear everything is working well so far.

[ckeyes888]

Long shot I'm sure but it would be nice to be able to populate a variable with the display state
text without it scrolling, as it always seems to do, and display it on a CP.

Just me or are there a lot fewer characters showing in the device's display state than there are on the receivers display?

Thanks,

Carl

[nsheldon]

Long shot I'm sure but it would be nice to be able to populate a variable with the display state
text without it scrolling, as it always seems to do, and display it on a CP.

Yea. Would be nice. Pioneer's specification for the display indicates a limit of 14 characters at a time (same as the physical characteristics of the display itself). Since the scrolling content can have a variable length based on the current source and content, there's no way to tell exactly how long a scrolling message is going to be except perhaps to try and programmatically recognize some pattern. That would be a huge time and code investment though.

Just me or are there a lot fewer characters showing in the device's display state than there are on the receivers display?

If you're not seeing 14 characters (including spaces, dashes, etc.) in the "display" state of your Pioneer Receiver device in Indigo, that may be a bug, but if you are seeing the same 14 characters in the state as you are on the 1122's display, then it's working as well as Pioneer allows with their current specifications. Note that there are a number of special characters defined by Pioneer for the VSX display to which there is no standard font character equivalent, so I had to come up with multi-character close approximations in those cases (which may result in more than 14 characters in the device's "display" state).

[ckeyes888]

Thanks Nathan. My bad, you're exactly right there are just 14 characters.
Seems like more on the receivers large display. Looking forward to getting
it completely installed on Friday. Do love the virtual volume control!

Carl

[nsheldon]

Okay, cool. Glad you're liking the plugin so far. Yea, the virtual volume controller is useful for me too since I use an iPad mini with Indigo Touch and custom control pages to control my entertainment center. It's nice to have the volume slider within Indigo Touch.