NOTE: doc is lacking.

Turn your yamaha receiver to a smart one. This repo provides ir codes for yamaha-receivers as well as a small python program which uses mqtt to communicate with a mqtt broker.

I'm running this on a raspberry pi with volumio installed, so a few hardcoded things exists in here that assumes volumio is running (just comment that out). There might be other hardcoded things as well.

The idea is that you take a raspberry pi, put volumio on it. Download this repo, connect an ir led, and you can then play music to your yamaha receiver through tcp/ip. The receiver will turn on when music starts playing and set input to hdmi_1 (hardcoded, easy to change in code). An added plus is to be able to send mqtt requests to control the receiver.

I recommend to use this with volspotconnect2 for spotify-connect support and volumio-snapcast-plugin for multiroom speaker support if you need that. I'm also using home-assistant to send mqtt requests to the receiver.

Right now, the states on the out topic is playing|stopped|inactive where volumio is considered inactive after 2 min of being stopped continusly.

Drop an issue if you want to are having trouble interpreting how to set everything up.

python yamahanec2lirc.py yamaha_rxv.csv RECEIVER ${RECEIVERVERSION} 1 > yamaha_${RECEIVERVERSION}.lircd

Example: HTR-2064:

python yamahanec2lirc.py yamaha_rxv.csv RECEIVER 2064 1 > yamaha_htr_2064.lircd

Import the final lircd like so in /etc/lirc/lircd.conf:

include "<path/from/root>/yamaha_htr_2064.lircd"

This is a MQTT client that can be used to send ir codes to control your yamaha

pip install pipenv
pipenv install
pipenv shell

Run pipenv shell to active virtual env, then run deamon: receiver.py

sudo apt-get install python python-pip
pip install pipenv
pipenv install --system

./receiver.py --help

You can use this to see the mqtt topic to use. Example can be /raw/receivers/volumio/out for outgoing signals and /raw/receivers/volumio/in for sending. Everything in the payload is sent as args to irsend.

The following mqtt request will turn off my receiver (modify to match your receiver with your needs):

topic:   /raw/receivers/multiroom/in
payload: SEND_ONCE RECEIVER_2064_MAIN POWER_STANDBY

sudo cp receiver /etc.init.d/receiver
sudo update-rc.d receiver defaults

Thanks to nobbin for his guide here, and for providing ir codes for yamaha reveivers. Look at his guide for a complete explaination how to use lirc with yamaha receivers.

I added a few codes for changing between all inputs on a Yamaha HTR-2064 Receiver.