homebridge-pioneer-avr

homebridge-pioneer-avr is a plugin made for homebridge, which declare your Pioneer AVR as a TV in homekit (iOS 12.2 needed). It should work with Pioneer AVRs supported by the iControl AV5 App. It works well with my VSX-922.

Features

Declare your AVR as a homekit TV :

• Turn AVR On/Off
• Auto discover inputs
• Select active input in home app
• Select inputs to shown in the input list
• Save visibility status for inputs
• Rename inputs in home apps
• Control volume through the command in control center
• Control AVR with Remote in Control Center on iOS

Installation

1. Install the homebridge framework using npm install -g homebridge
2. Install homebridge-pioneer-avr using npm install -g homebridge-pioneer-avr
3. Update your configuration file. See sample-config.json in this repository for a sample.

Accessory configuration example

"accessories": [
    {
        "accessory": "pioneerAvrAccessory",
        "model": "VSX-922",
        "name": "My Pioneer AVR",
        "description": "AV Receiver",
        "host": "192.168.178.99",
        "port": 23
    }
]

*Notice: If port 23 does not work, try port 8102.

Links

https://github.com/rwifall/pioneer-receiver-notes

https://github.com/merdok/homebridge-webos-tv

https://github.com/TG908/homebridge-vsx

Release Notes

v0.8.1

• Modify telnet-avr to comply with RS232 specs

v0.8.0

• Completely rewrite communication with AVR

v0.7.0

• Use AVR's web interface if available

v0.6

• First support for remote keys (through Control Center -> Remote on iOS)

v0.5

• Save CurrentVisibilityState for inputs

v0.4

• Allow to rename inputs in Home app

v0.3

• Turn AVR On/Off
• Auto discover inputs
• Select active input in home app
• Select inputs to show in the input list
• Control volume through the command in control center with iPhone +/- buttons