Custom URLs to my Arcam Home Cinema Receiver

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I’m trying to use the new feature “Custom URLs” to send commands to my Arcam AVR30 Home Cinema Receiver without succeeding. I know the command I have to send and I think I have to use the method POST. But I’m not sure how to put the command together.

For example the command for Volume+ is the following in HEX:
0x21 0x01 0x08 0x02 0x10 0x10 0x0D

Can you give me some advice how to put the command together?

The IP-address is 10.0.0.9 and the port I have to use is 50000.

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That doesn’t work either, as the Custom URL command only supports URLs or ADB. However, AV devices from Arcam cannot be controlled via URL, but only via IR, RS232, or a client socket on port 50000. The same data is sent over a client socket as would be over RS232. Since Cantata currently does not support the device via client socket or RS232, your only option for now is to control the device via IR—provided it is included in Cantata’s IR database.

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As mentioned by @Fonzo we don’t support serial commands. The best way for you is to get Global cache IP to Serial hardware and make it work. In short the UART connection is required between your device and a control port.

We will help you control the GC Hardware.

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If a professional home automation server is already in place, controlling such AV devices can also be managed using a professional home automation system in combination with the RS90.
The process would work as follows:
• The RS90 sends a Custom URL command to a webhook of the home automation system.
• The home automation system sends the control command to the Arcam device, either via an RS232 LAN gateway or directly via client socket.
• The home automation system also receives the response from the Arcam device and can evaluate and incorporate it into control logic.
• A response back to the RS90 is currently not possible via a Custom URL command—only sending commands to a system that can process URLs.

Personally, I control AV devices that require a client socket or RS232 via IP-Symcon. IP-Symcon receives the command from the RS90 through a Custom URL command and then sends the actual control command to the AV device via an RS232 LAN gateway. In the case of an Arcam device, this would also work directly via a client socket—i.e., direct network control using port 50000.

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