Python RS232 API for Anthem Receivers and Pre-Amplifiers

NOTE: THIS DOES NOT WORK YET!

Library for controlling Anthem receivers and pre-amplifiers (e.g. Statement D2) via RS232 serial connections. The structure of this library is based off pymonoprice.

Supported Anthem Models

This currently only supports Anthem models which communicate using Anthen's original RS232 serial Gen1 interface. For later models (while the Gen2 serial interface is still unsupported), the IP-based 'python-anthemav' library for communicating can be used.

The list of series constants are enumerated in the SUPPORTED_ANTHEM_SERIES variable.

Usage

from anthemav_serial import get_amp_controller, ANTHEM_D2

serial_port = '/dev/ttyUSB0'
amp = get_amp_controller(ANTHEM_D2, serial_port)

amp.mute_on(1)

See also example.py for a more complete example.

Usage with asyncio

With the asyncio flavor, all methods of the controller objects are coroutines:

import asyncio
from anthemav_serial import get_async_amp_controller, ANTHEM_D2

async def main(loop):
    amp = await get_async_amp_controller(ANTHEM_D2, '/dev/ttyUSB0', loop)
    await amp.set_power(zone, False)

loop = asyncio.get_event_loop()
loop.run_until_complete(main(loop))

Known Issues

• cannot query the existing state of the pre-amps (e.g. current volume, sources, etc)

See Also

• Anthem D2/D2v/AVM50/AVM50v/ARC1 tweaking guide (AVS Forum)
• Python interface for IP-based Anthem receivers

Details on RS232 protocol:

• AVM 2 Serial Programming
• Serial commands and feedback from Anthem pre/pro
• http://www.remotecentral.com/cgi-bin/mboard/rc-touch/thread.cgi?2525
• https://www.anthemav.com/downloads/Anthem%203-zone%20AVP%20serial%20commands.zip