I just got my elk M1 Gold system up and working and monitored. I have also recently purchased a Denon AVR 3312CI and was wondering if it is possible to connect this and add it to the Elk M1 Gold to start a home automation project. I have read forums of others doing this but I am wondering what hardware is needed to accomplish this and what purposes can it serve?
Elk M1 Gold & Denon AVR 3312CI connection possible?
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Neurorad
Senior Member
Remotecentral.com has Denon serial commands, I think. AVS forum member Batpig has a Denon AVR website that is full of info. You'd use a PC terminal emulation program to troubleshoot serial commands to the Denon. I don't know how to send serial commands from the Elk, thought I saw mention of an SDK somewhere around here.
Or, you can use a 3rd party solution, e.g. CQC, HomeSeer, Elve, MainLobby, Premise (it's free) to stand between the Elk and Denon. If you're going to spend money on one of these, make sure someone else has done what you would like to do already (e.g. control their 3312), successfully. Using one of these platforms, from a touchscreen, you could control the M1 as well as the Denon.
EventGhost, running on a PC, might be another option for Denon control.
How do you want to control the Denon? From a touchscreen? Elk keypad? Remote control (Denon comes with one.
)? Android tab? iTouch?
Or, you can use a 3rd party solution, e.g. CQC, HomeSeer, Elve, MainLobby, Premise (it's free) to stand between the Elk and Denon. If you're going to spend money on one of these, make sure someone else has done what you would like to do already (e.g. control their 3312), successfully. Using one of these platforms, from a touchscreen, you could control the M1 as well as the Denon.
EventGhost, running on a PC, might be another option for Denon control.
How do you want to control the Denon? From a touchscreen? Elk keypad? Remote control (Denon comes with one.
)? Android tab? iTouch?
Dean Roddey
Senior Member
It's also a whole other thing to use something like CQC as compared to the Elk for this type of thing. CQC would provide you with two way feedback from the device to allow you to animate the interface and see status, and to have dynamic outgoing commands that adjust to the circumstances. The Elk would just allow you (AFAIK) to send out simple one way, fixed commands, right?
tmbrown97
Senior Member
The Elk can receive serial commands and act on them - to some extent... but since it's not built for this, everything would have to be hardcoded and anything beyond even the simplest automation would be too much hassle... definitely seems like an HA software package would be best suited for this task.
