device-pioneer-vsx

Smartthings Device Type for Pioneer VSX Receivers

This allows you to connect up a VSX-1130/VSX-1124/etc receiver to smartthings. The device utilizes a proxy which connects to the receiver via a socket connection.

Prerequisites

• Python 2.7
• requests (pip install requests)

Installation

1. Download all files from this repository

2. Login to https://graph.api.smartthings.com/

3. Click My Device Handlers

4. Click Create New Device Handler

5. Click From Code and paste in the contents of device-type-pioneervsx.groovy

6. Create Create

7. Click Publish

8. Click My Devices from the top menu bar and then click New Device

9. Give the device an appropriate name (ex. Downstairs Receiver) . Set the type to Pioneer VSX Network Receiver . Put in a number for the network id (ex. 999)

10. Click Create

11. Make device id shown in the url in the browser, ex. https://graph.api.smartthings.com/device/show/xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx . The device id is in the url after /show/. You will need this id for the config file in a later step.

12. Click My SmartApps

13. Click New Smartapp

14. Click From Code and paste in the contents of smartapp-pioneervsx-integration.groovy

15. Click Publish

16. Click App Settings then Oauth, the Enable Oauth in Smart App

17. Write down the Client ID and Client Secret

18. Open a web browser window in private mode (incognito). Navigate to this URL into your browser, substituting in the Client Id: https://graph.api.smartthings.com/oauth/authorize?response_type=code&client_id=&scope=app&redirect_uri=http://localhost

    If you are prompted to login to SmartThings, go ahead. Select you location from the drop down list and the receiver you want to have access to through the REST API Click the Authorize button. You'll be redirected to a URL that looks like this: http://localhost/?code=

    Copy the Code from the URL for later use.

19. Go back to https://graph.api.smartthings.com/ide/apps and click on your VSX Integration SmartApp

20. Click Simulator. Set the Location, select your receivers, then click Install.

21. Copy the API Token shown in the bottom right corner. This is the callbackurl_access_token

22. Copy the URL from API Endpoint https://graph.api.smartthings.com/api/smartapps/installations/xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx . The last part of the url will be the callbackurl_app_id

23. Open the Smarthings app on your mobile device.

    1. Go to My Home->Things and find your receiver you created in Step 10. Click the receiver then the gear box to go to settings. Change the IP to the IP address of the computer that will be running the python proxy server (NOT the IP address of the receiver). Click Done
    2. Go to Automation and Click Pioneer VSX Integration. Verify that your receiver is set under Which Receivers?

24. Install python and requests (pip install requests)

25. Copy the .cfg and .py files to location where you will run the server

26. Edit the vsxproxysrvr.cfg file editing the following items (at minimum)

    1. If you are using a Pioneer reciever from 2016+ (ie VSX-1131) set use_eiscp=true
    2. Set callbackurl_app_id and callbackurl_access_token to values from steps 21 and 22
    3. Set callbackurl_main_zone_device_id to the value from step 11
    4. Under the receiver section, set host to the IP address of your Pioneer VSX receiver

27. Start the program using python vsxproxysrvr.py