hello i just got your new amplifier and tried the openhab binding.
Everthing works fine but a couple a things i would like to see
-A way to see if a zone is actually used for playing something like an on off item to know. Basically when the zone is added to an source that is playing it means its used if its not added in a source or not playing then its off
-Image item to retrieve the image of the current playing source.
-Artist and album string items for each source
-A way to control the play pause next and back for a source like an media control item.
-And last and not least but i think it would be very difficult to have each zone as a separate audio source in openhab for announcement ?
What do you think it would be possible ? i know the rest api allows for this but i am not very good with java to contribute to the binding. Also using the http binding to do all this is a chore
To answer your underlying question most of this is possible with the current version of the API. The only thing the api does not support right now is a playing indicator for RCA inputs, most of the streams report their play/pause status. The detection for RCAs still needs to be added in software.
asking him to do something will be a challange seeing how many open issues are and kai will be the last person to ask for new features … i guess i will have to use the rest api and do this by myself. I was under the impression that you guys done the binding. Anyways thanks for the response
