Receiver

A receiver is an important part of a home theater network since it can distribute audio and video throughout a house. The primary purpose of the receiver section in AutoHTN is to control audio and video inputs to a specific zone. An example where controlling a receiver's zone could be useful is when a person wants to finish watching a blu-ray movie in bed. Using AutoHTN, he or she can switch the blu-ray player input to the bed room zone. Another example where AutoHTN’s receiver commands can be useful is if someone wants to switch XM radio on to the back porch.

This initial version of AutoHTN only works with web enabled Denon receivers. Denon publishes a spec that details how to send network commands to its receivers. Support for RS-232 controllable receivers is planned in a future release of AutoHTN.

AutoHTN's configuration of a receiver is done by going to menu\Configure\Receivers. The specific receiver model is picked here along with the URL and port number of the receiver. Also, the names of the particular zone are entered in the Zone 1-3 inputs. Hitting the save button will go to the configuration page of the specific receiver. Hereis where a home theater device such as a cable box or Wii is set to a specific audio/video input for the receiver.

The currently supported receivers are:

Denon AVR-3808CI	Denon AVR-4308CI	Denon AVR-5308CI