Pioneer Elite Receiver Plug-in

[sbg]

Is anyone using this plug-in with the VSX-94TXH ? When I send a command to the receiver it executes it just fine but MLServer locks up on my computer and I have to Ctrl-Alt-Del to task manager and kill the program. Anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks,
Jim

[kevind]

VSX56TXi

I've noticed quite a few of the variables the documentation says are supposed to be there are actually not. The most imprtant in the power status variable.

MLServeCmd.MLPioneerVSX|1~PowerToggle does not work

I added this variable manually but it does not get updated. Unfortunately this is the most important variable to know the status of

This works fine for me. What model is your receiver?

[DemonFox]

Is anyone using this plugin with a VSX-92TXH?

[DemonFox]

I can confirm that the plug-in does function with the VSX-92TXH. Good job with that plug in!

[sbg]

Is anyone using this plug-in with the VSX-94TXH ? When I send a command to the receiver it executes it just fine but MLServer locks up on my computer and I have to Ctrl-Alt-Del to task manager and kill the program. Anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks,
Jim

Just in case anyone's having the same problem setting the baud rate to 9600 solved mine.

Thanks,
Jim

[1bad55]

VSX56TXi

I've noticed quite a few of the variables the documentation says are supposed to be there are actually not. The most imprtant in the power status variable.

MLServeCmd.MLPioneerVSX|1~PowerToggle does not work

I added this variable manually but it does not get updated. Unfortunately this is the most important variable to know the status of

This works fine for me. What model is your receiver?

I also have a VSX56TXi and I can confirm that both the Power & Mute toggle commands DO NOT work on this receiver. I have had to put a Power On & Power Off Button as well as a the Mute On & Off Buttons.

I am also having problems with the status of the preset channel & radio frequency. I wanted to show the Radio Station info when I go to Tuner and for the life of me I can not get them to show up.

I created buttons (singleline text) with the following command in the label area and it either does not get the information or it is not displaying the value. (I do not have hide values checked)

CHANNEL - {{MLPioneerVSX_1_Preset_Desc}} This button ONLY shows the text CHANNEL -

STATION - {{MLPioneerVSX_1_Freq_Desc}} This button Does not even show the text STATION - You can not even see this button once the scene is launched. If I change it to singleline text2 you can at least see the text STATION - but not the value.

I also tried these values without _Desc and it still does not get a value.

This is what the Pioneer plugin logs

Received Command from MLServer: [ 1~Tuner]
SendViaCommPort for Device#: 1 [02FN]
Received Status from Device#: 1 [FN02]
Received Status from Device#: 1 [N02]
Received Status from Device#: 1 [02]
Received Status from Device#: 1 [2]
Received Status from Device#: 1 [LM129]
Received Status from Device#: 1 [M129]
Received Status from Device#: 1 [129]
Received Status from Device#: 1 [29]
Received Status from Device#: 1 [9]
Received Status from Device#: 1 [SR0193]
Received Status from Device#: 1 [R0193]
Received Status from Device#: 1 [0193]
Received Status from Device#: 1 [193]
Received Status from Device#: 1 [93]
Received Status from Device#: 1 [3]

These values mean absolutely nothing to mebut I do not see any errors being reported here or in MLServer.

Any help would be appreciated!

P.S. If anyone out there would like to share there Scenes it would be nice to see what other people are doing. Mine is far from being complete.

I started with the very nice VSX2 sample (Thank You! ) here and it sure made it easy to get going and add the affitional info I wanted. I am still adding and modifying. I would like to add a volume sliders but I am affraid I will blow my speakers playing with this button.

[tsamuels]

The plug-in is mostly working well with my VSX-94TXH, thanks for posting it. The exception is that I don't seem able to get the setlm command to work properly; did anyone work out the correct command syntax for this?
Thanks

[bjdraw]

The plug-in is mostly working well with my VSX-94TXH, thanks for posting it. The exception is that I don't seem able to get the setlm command to work properly; did anyone work out the correct command syntax for this?
Thanks

I can confirm this. Everything on the VSX-94TXH is working fine including some very responsive variables.

But the setlm isn't working.
First I manually set the listening mode via the front panel of the 94TXH and note the variable 'mlpioneervsx_1_listeningmode" value for both 'stereo' and 'auto'.

Then I try
MLServeCmd.MLPioneerVSX|1~setlm~lm154
For 'auto' and
MLServeCmd.MLPioneerVSX|1~setlm~lm128
for Stereo.

Here's the log.

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Received Command from MLServer: [1~setlm~lm154]
SendViaCommPort for Device#: 1 [lm154SR]
Received Status from Device#: 1 [E04]
Received Status from Device#: 1 [04]
Received Status from Device#: 1 [4]
Received Command from MLServer: [1~setlm~lm128]
SendViaCommPort for Device#: 1 [lm128SR]
Received Status from Device#: 1 [E04]
Received Status from Device#: 1 [04]
Received Status from Device#: 1 [4]


MLServer 3.0.248
MLPioneerVSX 1.1.5

[bjdraw]

Nevermind I just figured it out.

Here are the commands.

Auto
MLServeCmd.MLPioneerVSX|1~setlm~6
Direct
MLServeCmd.MLPioneerVSX|1~setlm~7
Pure Direct
MLServeCmd.MLPioneerVSX|1~setlm~8


Stereo
MLServeCmd.MLPioneerVSX|1~setlm~9

[mabrett00]

Hey guys,

I am using the plugin with the VSX92TXH.

I don't think the plugin supports HDMI3 and the Sirius commands

So far everything else I have tried works.

Does anyone know If the developer of the plugin would be willing to modify the plugin to add these additional command sets?

Has anyone had a different experience.

[bjdraw]

The plug-in supports generic commands. I don't have it off hand but it is mentioned in this thread somewhere how to use the feature.

[mabrett00]

You Rock....

I downloaded the rs232 commands from the pioneer site.
After a little research I found that the command for HDMI3 is "21FN"

So MY button now looks like:

MLServeCmd.MLPioneerVSX|1~CMD~21FN ........

BAM... it worked.

Now I have created buttons with all of the additional commands not included in the plugin..

thanks for the tip I really appreciate it

VERY HAPPY MAN!!!

MB

[DavidL]

Added to WIki. Thanx for the update.

[voodoo]

I am having trouble installing the MLPioneerVSX plugin.

I tried to download via MLInstaller, but it stated it was UNSUPPORTED and referred me to login to register website. Its been a long day so I guess that is my excuse in not finding it there...

I search and downloaded the dll from the forum, but am could not successfully register.

Per the Wiki, I open a command line and pasted:
RegSvr32 “C:\Program Files\MLServer\Plugins\MLPioneerVSX.dll”

No success so I restarted the computer and tried again.

The error message is the same:

RegSvr32
===============================
The module ""C:/Program " failed to load.

Make sure the binary is stored at the specified path or
debug it to check for problems with the binary or
dependent .DLL files

The specified module could not be found
===============================

Thinking I might not need to register with Vista and the most recent updates I tried to look at the settings under MLServer and received the following error:

Error# 91 - Object variable or With block variable not set raised by MLServer function cmdSettings_Click attempting to call SETTINGS function in plugin MLPioneerVSX

Thanks for any help on this...

[mabrett00]

voodoo,

mine would not register either...

what i did was just copy it to the correct folder in MLServer then I started MLServer, at that point I just opened the plugin folder and clicked on the checkbox to register it.

Perfect....

MB