HEOS AVR second zone stopped working

[kernelpanic85]

The problem

At some point this year, I noticed that the HEOS integration stopped being able to control and play media on zone 2 on my Denon x3700 AVR. This had been working no problem for years by turning on zone 2 first with the Denon AVR integration and then playing media with the HEOS integration. This would allow me to only play media on zone 2 and leave zone 1 alone.

Currently when playing the media, zone 1 on the AVR will incorrectly turn on and switch to the HEOS input and play media while zone 2 will do nothing. Was there some kind of change in behavior on these integrations or is this a possible bug?

What version of Home Assistant Core has the issue?

core-2024.8.2

What was the last working version of Home Assistant Core?

No response

What type of installation are you running?

Home Assistant OS

Integration causing the issue

heos

Link to integration documentation on our website

https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/heos

Diagnostics information

home-assistant_heos_2024-08-19T14-09-37.202Z.log

Example YAML snippet

- data: {}
    target:
      entity_id: media_player.living_room_avr_zone2    ///turn on zone 2 with Denon AVR integration
    action: media_player.turn_on
  - data:
      volume_level: 0.5
    target:
      entity_id:
        - media_player.living_room_avr_2    ///set volume with HEOS integration
    action: media_player.volume_set
  - data:
      entity_id: media_player.living_room_avr_2  ///play media with HEOS integration
      message: Incoming guest at the side door
    action: tts.google_translate_say

Anything in the logs that might be useful for us?

Nothing in the logs other than a few messages in the debug output

Additional information

No response

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Hey there @andrewsayre, mind taking a look at this issue as it has been labeled with an integration (heos) you are listed as a code owner for? Thanks!

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