glassbase / asyncpioneer

Async Pioneer AVR for Home Assitant

Async Pioneer AV amp

My VSX-924 AV amp works with the original Home Assistant Pioneer driver for a few hours, a day or two at max only. After that it freezes, and only a power off/on cycle makes it useable again. This is because that driver creates a new telnet connection to the amp for every update, it queries the required info, and then closes the connection. The telnet software in the amp firmware probably has memory leak, that might be the reason for this freeze after a few thousands of telnet connections.

No firmware updates available for this amp anymore, so I re-wrote the driver in an async workflow: it creates a single connection and listens to the replies from the amp in an endless loop. The idea is probably right, because my amp hardly freezes now. As a bonus, it was also possible to capture the display-content of the amp.

I recommend the Mini Media Player from kalkih as a nice UI for the amp.

Install

1. Download and copy media_player.py and init.pyinto config/custom_components/asyncpioneer directory.

2. Add a reference to this inside your configuration.yaml:

media_player:
- platform: asyncpioneer
  host: 192.168.8.121
  port: 8102
  last_radio_station: "D06"
  radio_stations:
     "Bartok"          : "B02"
     "Novi Sad"        : "B03"
     "Petofi"          : "B04"
     "Panda"           : "B05"
     "Szabadkai Rádió" : "C02"
     "Pannon Szabadka" : "C03"
     "Prvi Radio"      : "D05"
     "Hit FM Szabadka" : "D06"
  disabled_sources:
    - "HDMI 4"
    - "HDMI 5"
    - "HDMI 6/MHL"
    - "iPod/USB"
    - "THome"

Options

last_radio_station: If not set, "next track" button in radio tuner mode will simply send "next station" command to the amp, which is not convenient, if you only have a few stations stored in the amp's memory. If this is set to eg. "B03", then sending a "next track" command when listening to "B03" will result in a "select A01 station" command. Likewise, a "previous track" on "A01" results in "select B03 station".

radio_stations: You can name the stored stations here, because not every radio use RDS. Dictionary format.

disabled_sources: A simple list to disable unwanted input sources, to make the source selector list shorter.

Services

pioneer_select_speaker:

Select output speaker "A", "B" or "A+B"

- service: media_player.pioneer_select_speaker
  data:
    entity_id: media_player.pioneer_avr
    speaker: "A+B"

pioneer_select_hdmi_out:

Select HDMI output

- service: media_player.pioneer_select_hdmi_out
  data:
    entity_id: media_player.pioneer_avr
    hdmi_out: "1+2 ON"

where possible values for hdmi_out:

• "1+2 ON"
• "1 ON"
• "2 ON"
• "1/2 OFF"

pioneer_select_radio_station:

Select stored radio station by its name.

- service: media_player.pioneer_select_radio_station
  data:
    entity_id: media_player.pioneer_avr
    station: "My favorite radio"

pioneer_dim_display:

Dim the FL display in 4 levels

- service: media_player.pioneer_dim_display
  data:
    entity_id: media_player.pioneer_avr
    dim_display: 2

where possible values for display brightness:

dim_display	Result
0	Maximum brightness
1	Bright display
2	Dim display
3	Display off

State attributes

current_radio_station: The currently selected radio station code, like "B07"

current_speaker: The currently selected output speaker: "A", "B" or "A+B"

{{ state_attr("media_player.pioneer_avr", "current_speaker") }}

current_hdmi_out: The currently selected HDMI output: "1+2 ON", "1 ON", "2 ON", "1/2 OFF"

{{ state_attr("media_player.pioneer_avr", "current_hdmi_out") }}