Denon 3808 av receiver with ethernet port
Posted: Fri May 16, 2008 7:23 pm
http://www.denon.co.uk/site/frames_main ... il&Pid=339&
this denon 3808 av receiver has an ethernet port...
You can use telnet or http to control all functions.
(some lower models have an rs232 port for remote control: same protocol as over telnet)
firmware update from the internet also works (this took 1 hour last night)
Girder has support for the various serial and ethernet denon amplifiers already built-in.
So, I can just give a lua command like : Denon:PowerOff() and the amplifier is switched off
(obviously, the ethernet port and related processor stays powered on [8D] )
Of course, a lot of this remote control functionality, you could also do via infrared (e.g. irtrans device)
but now, my application automatically gets notified in girder every time there is a (manual) change to the current volume level, active input, power on state etc.
and setting an absolute volume level, via infrared (via a slider in netremote) would be difficult. normally, you would need volume up/down buttons
so now, if I leave the living room, the amplifier is automatically powered off (and also the tv, via an irtrans device)
internet radio streaming works (not something, I want to use).
Also a uPnP av renderer is built-in, controllable via the IR remote control and on-screen GUI.
(no album art or photo display, this is reserved for even more expensive models)
I tried to play music from a synology DS107+ with twonkymedia 4.4.4.i installed on it as uPnP av media server (so I don't use the built-in synology uPnP server).
this works ok....
navigating a collection of 20.000 songs (organized as artist\album\track) is fast enough (using the on-screen GUI, I didn't use the 2 line display on the receiver)...
I found that I can remotely select, start and stop a particular song using uPnP :
I used this open source c++ toolkit :
http://sourceforge.net/projects/platinum/
and I used the supplied example program : MicroMediaController.exe
so my pc is the uPnP av control point
I'm still investigating this further... (using netremote/girder)
(my current solution for music involves a pc with j river media center, which can be easily remote controlled by girder/netremote)
note :
I have UPC digital tv, which has an RGB scart output.
this amplifier only supports composite,s-video,component analog video inputs.
so, I got one of these :
SCART RGB to YUV Component Video Converter
http://cgi.ebay.com/NEW-SCART-RGB-to-YU ... m153.l1262
Marcel


this denon 3808 av receiver has an ethernet port...
You can use telnet or http to control all functions.
(some lower models have an rs232 port for remote control: same protocol as over telnet)
firmware update from the internet also works (this took 1 hour last night)
Girder has support for the various serial and ethernet denon amplifiers already built-in.
So, I can just give a lua command like : Denon:PowerOff() and the amplifier is switched off
(obviously, the ethernet port and related processor stays powered on [8D] )
Of course, a lot of this remote control functionality, you could also do via infrared (e.g. irtrans device)
but now, my application automatically gets notified in girder every time there is a (manual) change to the current volume level, active input, power on state etc.
and setting an absolute volume level, via infrared (via a slider in netremote) would be difficult. normally, you would need volume up/down buttons
so now, if I leave the living room, the amplifier is automatically powered off (and also the tv, via an irtrans device)
internet radio streaming works (not something, I want to use).
Also a uPnP av renderer is built-in, controllable via the IR remote control and on-screen GUI.
(no album art or photo display, this is reserved for even more expensive models)
I tried to play music from a synology DS107+ with twonkymedia 4.4.4.i installed on it as uPnP av media server (so I don't use the built-in synology uPnP server).
this works ok....
navigating a collection of 20.000 songs (organized as artist\album\track) is fast enough (using the on-screen GUI, I didn't use the 2 line display on the receiver)...
I found that I can remotely select, start and stop a particular song using uPnP :
I used this open source c++ toolkit :
http://sourceforge.net/projects/platinum/
and I used the supplied example program : MicroMediaController.exe
so my pc is the uPnP av control point
I'm still investigating this further... (using netremote/girder)
(my current solution for music involves a pc with j river media center, which can be easily remote controlled by girder/netremote)
note :
I have UPC digital tv, which has an RGB scart output.
this amplifier only supports composite,s-video,component analog video inputs.
so, I got one of these :
SCART RGB to YUV Component Video Converter
http://cgi.ebay.com/NEW-SCART-RGB-to-YU ... m153.l1262
Marcel

