Casatunes system integration

Hello Guys

I am about buying a casatunes sound system
Anyone knows how can i integrate this to vera?

I found this

But dont know how to start in vera side
Scenes are good

This doesn’t look terribly different, at first glance, from other serial protocols. Perhaps a modification of the Denon plugin or something similar. But if you’re new to Lua and Luup and MiOS, then this might be a bit of an uphill struggle. I don’t know how popular these things are (cf. Sonos, for example) but what you’re after, then, is a developer who has one, and Vera, and wants to do it.

I’d start with an existing plugin as akbooer mentions. If your goal is to control a single casatunes device this will work great. If you have multiple casatunes devices or zones you may want to consider a different plugin as a starting point. Since this is whole house audio related you might look at the Russound plugin. It is serial based and supports control of multiple audio zones. It doesn’t offer as much in the realm of control of the song selection, but that could be added in later. When looking at this plugin, look through the I_ files which are implementation based. These contain the serial commands needed to execute control of your hardware.

Thank you very much
I will go with that one
Russound plug in and let you know :slight_smile:

Did you ever get a plugin going for this ? I would love to get mine going

Anything on this yet? I would love to be able to integrate with Casatunes but I have no experience.

Actually nope i didnt :frowning:

Soooo… I have a casatunes… its controlling a russound caa-66 via serial and im wanting to control the casatunes from within vera…

Im looking at the I_denonreceiver1 XML file and it looks as though it could be modified to control the casatunes over IP. dose anyone have any experience or a couple tips on the editing script side as im pretty green. I do have the casatunes 3rd part control documents.

The format of a typical command consists of:

Start Command Character = !
Command = POWER
Parameters (comma separated list) = ,ZON1,PWRON
End of command character

The format of a typical response consists of:

Start Command Character = *
Response to Command = SYSINFO
Returns a comma separated list ,ZON1,SRC2,VOL80
End of command character

Where, is 0x0D hex (or 13 decimal

any feedback is a big help