madpatrick wrote: > I'm using on my Denon not the dB scale, but the 0-98 scale. > So the 27 is then i think 27% and -53db ? > > I understand the 100% fixed outpout, but somhow i want also control the > volume a little bit with LMS. > Therefor i try to achieve a level of 80% of LMS to tweak the volume a > little bit remotly. If i want to get volume very high i will walk to > the Amp to control the volume. > > My question is maybe not clear explained by me. > The question was if it is possible to change the maximum volume field in > to % instead of the dB scale ? > This will not change the functionality of the setting, but makes it > easier to setup or control. Maybe not so easy to change :rolleyes: > > Again, i appreciate your effort for this plugin very much !
(Eternal caveat: I've never used the Denon AVP Control plugin, having written my own back when I used direct RS232 control.) Max volume: my plugin asks about a max Denon volume in dB. My expectation is that you'd set that to match the volume limit set on the amp. I forget where it is in the Denon setup screens, but you can set the max volume to one of a few specific values, ranging from -20 dB to +18 dB. The minimum volume is -81 dB. When you change the Squeezebox volume, my plugin calculates the nearest half-decibel (or, for secondary zones, full decibel since half decibels AFAICT are not availble except in the main zone). Set the SB volume to "27" with my plugin thinking +18 is the max volume and plugin calculates the amp volume should be (-81 + ((27/100)*(81 +18))) = -54 dB. If my plugin thought the amp max volume was 0 dB, then SB 27 would be Denon -59 dB. You might be able to do something like what you suggest by configuring the amplifier to allow +18 but telling my plugin its max volume is 0 dB, so that LMS would never set the Denon above 0 dB but you could turn the amp knob or use a Denon remote to go louder. But there are some conditions under which my plugin will resync the volume (for instance, if set to poll the amplifier, when it sees the amp power status change from off to on, it will set the amp volume to match the Squeezebox [because any volume commands attempted while the amp was off would have been rejected**), and if you had manually increased the amp volume above 0 dB, my plugin would decrease the amp volume back to 0 dB in those scenarios. Also decreasing the Squeezebox volume by even 1 of the 100 steps when the amp was set signficantly higher than 0 dB would lead to a significant drop in the Denon volume. So I would not recommend that. Also my plugin refuses to control an AVR unless the Squeezebox audio output is fixed at 100%. On my setup, I have a modfied version of Michael Herger's MusicInfoScr set to display volume on my SB3 in terms of Denon dBs instead of SB 0-100. My whole family is now quite comfortable thinking in decibels. ;-) That will only work right if my plugin knows the actual amp max volume, as it translates the fictional Squeezebox volume into what it thinks the amp volume should be; if the amp allows volume +18 dB but my plugin thinks it maxes out at 0 dB, then it would show 0 dB on the SB screen for everything from 0 dB to +18 dB. ** FWIW Yamaha's YNCA TCP protocol also rejects things like volume changes when the AVR is in standby. owner of the stuff at https://tuxreborn.netlify.app/ (which used to reside at www.tux.org/~peterw/) Note: The best way to reach me is email or PM, as I don't spend much time on the forums. *Free plugins:* AllQuiet Auto Dim/AutoDisplay BlankSaver ContextMenu DenonSerial FuzzyTime KidsPlay KitchenTimer PlayLog PowerCenter/BottleRocket SaverSwitcher SettingsManager SleepFade StatusFirst SyncOptions VolumeLock ------------------------------------------------------------------------ peterw's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2107 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=60114 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
