MusicCast

Id say these are my top 3 aside from Lutron. 1. Anything Shelly is really good. 2. Tempest Weather Station 3. Yamaha AV with MusicCast

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… their users and removing features from older hardware to get everyone to keep up with the upgrade churn. From personal experience, I highly recommend Yamaha MusicCast integration. It's quite rock solid. The professional way is to get https://usa.yamaha.com/products/audio\_visual/multi-room\_amplifiers/index.html and the cheaper way is several Yamaha MusicCast receivers such as RX-V485 or RX-V585 (2 zones). People upgrade receivers when video codecs get obsolete & they're available on the secondary market for pennies on the dollar yet perfectly fine to drive a sound zone. There's also the …

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Denon HEOS or Yamaha MusicCast work great with HA.

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I use Yamaha MusicCast. It works well.

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Proposed change With the latest firmware update Yamaha changed the behavior of clients, which are added to a group. By now we explicitly checked, whether the client has the role "client" after joining a group. In the new firmware version devices return "none" as role until the server starts sending data to them. As we took the role check as a precondition to let the server start sending data to the client, the client wasn't able to join a group anymore. This changes in the latest update of aiomusiccast. We removed the check completely to suppor

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Yamaha music cast rack mount AirPlay 2 and chrome cast network amplifier, with all speaker wires terminated in my network cabinet. Each network amp gives you 4 seperate AirPlay 2 zones, and can be expanded by “dumb” Yamaha rack mount amplifiers. Seriously good sound (I’ve got B&W663 in ceiling speakers) and all the airplay just works. I’ve also got a card in HA where I can control all volume, and Siri also sorts out the speakers as well.

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Depending on the number of zones and other considerations, for new installs we use one of these (or both together): * Yamaha MusicCast HA integration is absolutely rock solid. Like, an unheard-of absence of problems. So anything Yamaha with MusicCast. The top-end multi-channel Aventage RX-A8A receiver can support up to 4 zones. There's also a rackmount multi-zone MusicCast unit XDA-QS5400RK and even a MusicCast turntable. * HTD Lync 12. HTD is a very nice company, and they just recently got an HA integration going. A couple WIIM music players as online / network stored playlist sound sources.

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I am using Yamaha MusicCast speakers. No problem with waking them up with automations.

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I’ve been using Yamaha MusicCast for years and it works great.

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I use Yamaha Musiccast speakers and AVRs and can control them with HA and Alexa. Great system, very happy with it and its HA integration.

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Devices in use: RX-V479, WX-010 (3), WX-021 Two of the WX-010s are a stereo pair. I guess that makes 4 zone across 5 devices. I have no idea which device is in which zone. (I suppose the RX-479 is the main zone). I don't see anything in the media_player entities that is related to "zone"" When I upgrade from core-2023.10.5 to core-2023.11.x I'll pay more attention to what breaks regarding the "zone2" messages.

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Devices in use: RX-V479, WX-010 (3), WX-021 Two of the WX-010s are a stereo pair. I guess that makes 4 zone across 5 devices. I have no idea which device is in which zone. (I suppose the RX-479 is the main zone). I don't see anything in the media_player entities that is related to "zone"" When I upgrade from core-2023.10.5 to core-2023.11.x I'll pay more attention to what breaks regarding the "zone2" messages.

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Device info RX-V479 by Yamaha Corporation Firmware: 2.86 Thanks for your help. On Thu, Apr 11, 2024, 8:30 AM micha91 *@*.*> wrote: > Same error message HA Core 2024.3.3 > > As already mentioned before, it looks like a bug in the Yamaha firmware. > You have a device that only supports one zone, but your device sends > updates for a second zone to Home Assistant. That is an unexpected behavior > and for that reason Home Assistant prints warnings for those updates. We > could silently ignore the updates coming from the device, but that wouldn't > solve the problem - we would just stop mentioning …

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