Naim Amplifiers

Feature requests
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Hi Everyone, I have a Naim Nova amplifier. Does anyone know if the remote will work with it? I assume it will work via WIFI

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Hm. Doesnā€˜t the Nova remote work via Zigbee? If that is the case, the remote 2/3 will not work out of the box with the Nova afaik.

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You could probably get it to mostly work through this custom integration (GitHub - kennymc-c/ucr2-integration-requests: Integration for Unfolded Circle Remote Devices to send HTTP requests and Wake on LAN magic packets) or alternatively HomeAssistant with NodeRED.

It will be a DIY, trial and error, type process so I would only suggest it if you enjoy that kind of thing.

If you are into it, there are a bunch of the IP commands here: Control Naim Uniti or Naim Mu-so via IP command flows - Flows - Homey Community Forum

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Thank you all for the advice, I will look into it Quinterly. Also yes Heimspielvier it is Zigbee which is the problem. I have ordered the Remote 3 so I have time to do some research.
Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. Much appreciated.

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For anyone using Naim with Zigbee remotes, the links Qinterly provided worked (thanks!), Custom integration for HTTP requests is easy enough and second link with PUT and GET info works perfectly for power toggle, input switch.
Only problem is volume control, I tried HTTP but couldnā€™t get it to work for VOLUME UP or DOWN. A comment mentioned Chromecast so I used Home Assistant to add the media player from Naim and then added the entity to Remote 3. Mapped it to the volume button and voila! Even get the volume level feedback!

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Hi everyone,

Iā€™ve just got my Remote 3 and absolutely love the hardware! I was a bit hesitant at first since Iā€™m not great at tinkering and donā€™t have loads of spare time, but Iā€™m glad I went for it.

So far, Iā€™ve managed to get Roon working, and Iā€™ve figured out how to set up this Zidoo integration and Philips Hue. Theyā€™re not quite working how I want yet, but Iā€™m confident I can tinker and improve them as I go.

The bit Iā€™m really stuck on is getting my Naim Atom to work.

I came across this thread and tried to follow along, but couldnā€™t quite get it going.

I noticed @Mali mentioned in the thread that he got it working by using the Naim media player integration in Home Assistant and mapping the volume button from there:

ā€œA comment mentioned Chromecast so I used Home Assistant to add the media player from Naim and then added the entity to Remote 3. Mapped it to the volume button and voila! Even get the volume level feedback!ā€

That sounds exactly like what I want to do! @Mali ā€” would you mind sharing a quick breakdown of how you set that up? Iā€™ve got Home Assistant running and the Remote 3 set up, but Iā€™m still finding my way around things and could really use a step-by-step or ā€œidiotā€™s guideā€ version.

Really appreciate any help ā€” and if others are trying the same, hopefully this thread can help more of us get over the line!

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Hi Gillyshere,

sure, itā€™s a few steps. You need to:

  • Set up Unity in Roon (you should have that done already)
  • Add ā€œRoonLabs music playerā€ integration to Home Assistant to get your output speakers as entities
  • add the entity to the remote 3 under Home Assitant
  • Since it is now a media player, you can map the VOLUME UP and DOWN to activities

Roon DOES NOT have to be playing any media for it to work!

let me know if it works for you or if you need more information.

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Thank you @Mali, so simple when you know how I have got all the basic buttons working, volumeā€™s power on off mute. I would really like to be able to set my Atom inputs as well is this possible?

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for that I used the HTTP custom integration from github.

  • Follow Quinterlyā€™s link to github for installation instructions.
  • Once the integration is added to remote 3, you will get entities for each HTTP request, you will use mostly GET and PUT.
  • add the entities to the activity.
  • map to the button (I created custom ones on touch screen) and in the field source, paste the http request that will select the source.

I used the get request in the other Quinterlyā€™s link and tested before with postman, you can use whatever you are used to.

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Thanks again, @Mali! I was going wrong at first by following the little video that showed entering the commands as text over TCP :flushed_face:ā€”once I switched to using GET and PUT properly, everything started working like a charm.

This is why I was hesitant about setting up the remote in the first placeā€”Iā€™m terrible at this kind of thing! Really appreciate your little ā€œhow-tos.ā€ Iā€™ve got everything working now. Just need to set up some sequences and fine-tune things, but I think I can manage that once I get my head around it.

Loving the remote, by the way! Just a shame about the charging issue with the dock. Fingers crossed for that fix soon :crossed_fingers:

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good job :+1: ! Youā€™re not that terrible if you were able to figure this out with 5 bullet points :joy:. remote is great and still in development, hardware is premium and outlook is bright!

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Text over TCP is more for devices with a Telnet interface but most modern devices have a HTTP interface. If you see an example like:
HTTP:\IP:PORT\something it is POST
if it is like:
HTTP:\IP:PORT\something?feature=name it is GET
if it is something without http it might be Telnet and Text over TCP

Ralf

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Uniti Nova & Homey user here. Just got my Remote 3 and having the http GET/PUT integration combined with the Roon integration allowed me to include my Uniti Nova in the Remote 3 setup.

For the ones looking for specific commands to control your Naim Uniti amps: See this link on the Naim forums

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