Sony Audio Control API - Can't Change Input on AV Receiver

Question

I've been playing around with Sony's Audio Control API recently, with the aim of setting up 'scenes' at home, where I can switch devices on/off, set lighting, etc with one command.

I can list available inputs with getCurrentExternalTerminalsStatus, but can't actually change inputs via setActiveTerminal.

Request

{
    "method": "setActiveTerminal",
    "id": 13,
    "params": [
    {
        "active": "active",
        "uri": "extInput:sat-catv"
    }],
    "version": "1.0"
}

Response

{
    "error": [
        15,
        "unsupported operation"
    ],
    "id": 13
}

Judging by the response given, I'm guessing that my AV receiver (STR-DN860) doesn't support this for some reason, but I'm posting this here since Sony's support pages suggest to do so.

Answer 1

I think you want to use "setPlayContent" and not "setActiveTerminal".

"setActiveTerminal" powers "off" or "on" the output zone.

To change the output to "sat-catv" try

{
  "method":"setPlayContent",
  "id":47,
  "params":[
  {
    "output":"extOutput:zone?zone=1",
    "uri":"extInput:sat-catv"
  }],
  "version":"1.2"
}

using curl

curl -i -d '{"method":"setPlayContent","id":47,"params":[{"output":"extOutput:zone?zone=1","uri":"extInput:sat-catv"}],"version":"1.2"}' http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:10000

"setActiveTerminal" can be used to power on/off the device similar to "setPowerStatus" with:

curl -i -d '{"method":"setActiveTerminal","id":13,"params":[{"active":"inactive","uri":"extOutput:zone?zone=1"}],"version":"1.0"}' http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:10000/sony/avContent

But can also power on/off each zone individually by using ?zone=2, ?zone=3... dependent on how many zones your device support.

Don't have a STR-DN860 to test on but I think this should work.