Canadave wrote: > I'm new to this forum, and new to LMS/Squeezebox, but I'm experienced > with home automation and networking. > > I have LMS and the Airplay Bridge running on a Raspberry Pi, and they > are working well. I have 2 AV receivers, a Yamaha and a Denon, and both > have Airplay. They are both detected by Airplay Bridge and are working > properly. > > What I would like to be able to do is use the Zone 2 feature on each of > the receivers, ideally having Zone 2 show up as a separate player in > LMS. For example, I have a Yamaha receiver in my basement. The main zone > shows up via Airplay as Basement. The receiver's Zone 2 is wired to > speakers in my back yard. I'd like to have an additional player in LMS > called Backyard, that would use Airplay to play to Zone 2 of the Yamaha > receiver. Currently, I can do this by choosing the Basement player in > LMS, then switching over to the Yamaha remote app, turning on Zone 2 for > Airplay, and turning off Zone 1. It works, but it's cumbersome, and it > will interrupt anyone using the receiver in the basement (Main Zone). > The Denon has a similar set up, with the main zone in one room and Zone > 2 in another. > > Both the Yamaha and the Denon can be controlled over IP, and I do have > the control protocols. So, what I'd like to know is whether there is a > way to: > > 1. Set up two players in LMS/Airplay Bridge for each receiver, one for > the main zone and one for Zone 2; > 2. Whenever a player is selected, have LMS send the necessary control > codes to the appropriate receiver to configure it to play to the proper > zone. > > Before I spend a lot of time trying to figure out how to do this, I > thought I'd check in here to see if someone had already had success with > something similar, or had tried and determined it was impossible. > > Thanks for any help you can give.
Thats is not easily doable. Each player advertises itself as a single unit, not one unit per zone. So you would have to modify the helper to create 2 bridge players for each detected airplay player and then associate the « special command » to select the zone. From a software development this is doable but this is a fair bit of custom code that I would not be able to make generic. If you know your way to C, you can do that LMS 8.1.x on Odroid-C4 - *SqueezeAMP!*, 5xRadio, 5xBoom, 2xDuet, 1xTouch, 1xSB3. Sonos PLAY:3, PLAY:5, Marantz NR1603, Foobar2000, ShairPortW, 2xChromecast Audio, Chromecast v1 and v2, Squeezelite on Pi, Yamaha WX-010, AppleTV 4, Airport Express, GGMM E5, RivaArena 1 & 3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ philippe_44's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17261 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=105198
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