From db36a2eccc8e54a70628d1fb912060643e3888e0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Simon Szustkowski Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2016 13:52:05 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Added documentation for manually adding a Yamaha AVR (#959) * Added documentation for manually adding a Yamaha AVR --- source/_components/media_player.yamaha.markdown | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/source/_components/media_player.yamaha.markdown b/source/_components/media_player.yamaha.markdown index 85c6e4e07d4..02d33c7c6e3 100644 --- a/source/_components/media_player.yamaha.markdown +++ b/source/_components/media_player.yamaha.markdown @@ -29,14 +29,18 @@ To add a Yamaha Network Receiver to your installation, add the following to your # Example configuration.yaml entry media_player: platform: yamaha + host: 192.168.1.100 name: 'Basement Receiver' ``` Configuration variables: - **name** (*Optional*): Name of the device +- **host** (*Optional*): IP address or hostname of the device A few notes: -- This will automatically search your network for Yamaha receivers. It will add a media player device for each one. +- Not specifying the host variable will result in automatically searching your network for Yamaha Receivers. It will add a media player device for each one. +- In some cases, autodiscovery fails due to a known bug in the receiver's firmware. It is possible to manually specify the reveiver's IP address or via it's hostname (if it is discoverably by your DNS) then. +- Please note: If adding the IP address or hostname manually, you **must** enable network standby on your receiver, or else startup of Home Assistant will hang if you have your receiver switched off. - Currently the only controls that are available is Power On/Off, Mute, and Volume control. Other functions such as source select are in progress of being developed.