I’m working on HA automation to control volume that gets triggered from a wall switch (Lutron pico). My upstream is working fine as a media player in HA including volume slider on different media cards.
When I call the service media_player.volume_up (or down or setvolume) nothing happens on the device.
Anyone else see this problem?
I have messed around with Home Assistant, Arylic Devices and other Media Players. The Service media_player.xyz will involve third party software and Integrations like LinkPlay or DLNA_DMR etc. I found the most reliable (and fastest response) for commands HA <> Arylic products was to communicate directly using the Arylic httpapi commands and shell_commands service. e.g.
shell_command:
77_vol_up: "curl: http://192.168.167.77/httpapi.asp?command=setPlayerCmd:Vol%2B%2Bn"
77_vol_down: "curl: http://192.168.167.77/httpapi.asp?command=setPlayerCmd:Vol--n"
You can then call shell commands as a service.
I usually make the commands accessible using a script
"077_box_volume_up":
alias: BOX Volume Up
sequence:
- service: shell_command.77_vol_up
"077_box_volume_down":
alias: BOX Volume Down
sequence:
- service: shell_command.77_vol_down
For a full list of httpapi commands refer to
https://developer.arylic.com/httpapi/#http-api