I’d like to share some news about latest update to RHEOS, the Roon Extension designed to better integrate Denon/Marantz HEOS enabled equipment into ROON.
This latest beta release (0.7.0-1) adds the ability to control Denon/Marantz AVRs directly and control zones and sound-mode (eg direct, pure direct, movie, music etc.). This adds to the ability to stream at 192kHz 24bit and control HEOS groups directly from the ROON application.
This is in response to requests from several users who would like to access the AVR zones dirctly from the ROON interface.
In order to implement this, RHEOS explores your network to identify HEOS enabled AVRs with multiple zones and then creates “source controls” in ROON that allow switching the main zone and zone 2 on and off, as well switching between various “sound modes”.
I am releasing this “test” version via GitHub to download or as Docker images for Linux based systems and those using raspberry pi 4 or 3 as control before uploading to roon-extension-manager as I have only tested on my own AVR and would like confirmation this works across a range of devices.
In order to test please download and install from GitHub or pull a test image from docker at rheos/roon-extension-rheos. Select the" test" image appropriate for your system.
This should work as previously, but source controls for one or more AVRs discovered on your network will be created and these need to be added to the appropriate ROON output (i.e. the specific HEOS enabled AVR).
Select the output → device set up
Click on the control “cog”.
Click on “device setup”
And add the controls for “Main Zone”, “Zone 2” and “Surround Mode”
Once saved these will appear on the selected control and can be used to switch onn or off the zone or switch through the available sound modes. Sound modes are only available when main zone is On.
Please let me know of any issues, comments or future improvements. I will relaese this on roon-extension-manager in a week or so if confirmed as working.
For more information on RHEOS please look at the original thread for information on installation and use:
Enjoy!