Integrating my AVR with Home Assistant
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I was tired of digging through tiny on-device menus just to turn Zone 2 on and off on my AVR. So I built a small Go CLI (zone2) that talks directly to the receiver over WebSocket, then wired it into Home Assistant as a command_line switch. If you have an Arcam / AudioControl / JBL Synthesis receiver that exposes the setup WebSocket API on port 50001, this approach is straightforward and fast. Source code Why I chose a CLI first Instead of jumping straight into a custom Home Assi