Russound Commands

[garybixler]

Hi

I noticed that Russound isn't included in the third party section so I thought that I would ask the question here. I am in the process of ungrading one of my old Kustom whole house audio systems to the new Russound MCA-C3 unit. Having an intergrated ethernet port I am hoping to be abe to control functions via the ISY. I did find the import files on the WiKi for zone source selection and turning the zones on or off. My main desire would be to add or remove a zone from 'Do Not Disturb' as I have ELK announcements going on during the day and night. I saw that additonal downloads would we comming for the MCA-C3 in the future and was wondering if that might be some time soon?

Thanks

Gary

 

ISY 99i/IR Pro, Network and ELK modules. 3.1.17

[MstrD]

Gary,

 

I'm using Russound with my isy-99i, but it's a CAV66. It's connected via RS232 to a Global Cache GC-100. I have listings from Russound of all the RS232 commands, but I "think" the MCA-C3 commands are slightly different. I know the MCA-C3 has an integrated ethernet port so you skip the GC-100 connections.

 

Have you tried any of the Russound commands that are in the wiki? If those work (zones on/off), then maybe the other commands will work. I will pull out all the commands I have now (PDFs), and see if I can find the do not disturb commands. Their commands are pretty odd, with a weird checksum on the end.

 

If you aren't aware, there is an app for the CAV/CAA Russound units called Llama Panel Pro. I can use my iphone now to control my CAV. Russound has their own app for the MCA-C3 called My Russound for the ipad. I haven't been able to try that to see if it would work on my CAV. I don't think it does, but I haven't tried it.

 

BTW - I'm doing a similar thing with the Russound, using DND for different paging areas. On my Russound, there is also a Paging On/Off, but I haven't found a way to set it, except in the initial programming. My method was going to be set all zones to DND On, then DND off for just the zone I want the message, and then when done, all zones DND off. I haven't gotten there yet. This would only be for messages triggered by my isy-99i.

 

If you can test the Russound commands that are in the wiki, and they work, I can dig up the other codes for you.

 

David

[MstrD]

Actually, I'm almost positve that the MCA-C3 uses RIO commands from Russound and not the ones that I have. However, I do have that RIO Protocol for 3rd Part Integrators PDF and it has the commands in it.

 

From the document it looks liek the commands are MUCH simplier than the older commands.

 

It looks like, the do not disturb command is this:

 

C[c].Z[z].doNotDisturb

 

Change the c and the z to the controller and zone. Leave the brackets. Valid modes are ON, OFF, and SLAVE

 

So I'm guessing the command is

 

SET C[1].Z[1].doNotDisturb="ON"

 

for Controller 1, zone 1 to DND on.

 

 

I'd take one of the existing wiki commands, load them in your isy-99i and then copy one, and modify like the above.

[MstrD]

Attached is the RIO protocol for reference.

RIO Protocol for 3rd Party Integrators.zip

[garybixler]

Thanks MstrD

I did find the commands in plain text in Russound documents but now I don't know how to change to binary in the format needed by the ISY Resource Editor. Copy and past doesn't work nor are they seperated by ; Would be a lot of work to enter manualy.