Modes for AV Receiver inputs

[philk]

Can I put in a request for some modes for setting inputs on an AV Receiver?

Mode: input / output / source
Settings: Media Player, Chromecast, Apple TV, AM/FM, Internet Radio, Satellite, Game Console, Xbox, etc etc

If they have to be generic a decent basic list would be: tuner, media player, cable, satellite, tv, usb, internet radio, bluray, aux / auxiliary, game / game console, dvd, cd

[Fleker]

Thanks for the feature request. I'll forward it.

[Fleker]

I have added the following mode:

• input source
• output source

I have added the following settings:

• media player
• chromecast
• tv
• am fm
• internet radio
• satellite
• game console

These changes will be live in a few days.

[philk]

Awesome, thank you!

[i8beef]

What's the correct usage here for these new mode here? I tried the following but I either don't know the magic words, or this is being silently dropped after a sync...

    "attributes": {
      "availableModes": [{
          "name": "input source",
          "name_values": [{
            "name_synonym": ["activity"],
            "lang": "en"
          }],
          "settings": [{
            "setting_name": "tv",
            "setting_values": [{
              "setting_synonym": ["tv", "television"],
              "lang": "en"
            }]
          }, {
            "setting_name": "meda player",
            "setting_values": [{
              "setting_synonym": ["chromecast"],
              "lang": "en"
            }]
          }],
          "ordered": false
        }]
    },

[peterbn]

+1 - I would also love to know how to actually use these

[i8beef]

"set (device) input source to (setting_name)"

Note that I couldn't ever get it to work by using one of the setting_synonyms.

[Fleker]

The synonyms would need to an array of valid settings. input source is the name and the synonym. activity would not be recognized by the grammar right now.

[i8beef]

Right. It also doesn't recognize the synonyms as provided for the settings, i.e., saying "set family room tv input source to chromecast" as one might expect would be possible given my above sample code does not work either, you have to set it to "media player" specifically.

I'm assuming the synonyms are just ignored right now and are there for future expansion to this sort of functionality.

[Fleker]

If you add a new setting with a setting_name of chromecast it should work.

[i8beef]

Really? My understanding was that you could only use the preapproved setting names listed above. If so, that's awesome and I need to make some changes.

[Fleker]

Chromecast is an existing sensor name.

[i8beef]

Ah, I was just using that as an example, I and likely a lot of others using this are really looking for custom, arbitrary mode names and setting names, and expect the synonyms to work seamlessly with whatever we choose to put in there. Still looking forward to this being expanded!