Smart presets with more control of grouped devices.

[Inssomniak]

Goal: Smart Preset that selects a Wiim group, sets individual volumes for each device in the group, and then selects audio source, from one button.

Right now I select a smart preset with volume adjustment it sets the volume on both to that value. If the group isn’t active, I have to go do that first.

 

[SuperPele]

For anyone following this thread, the new beta for "Sound Profiles" seems to include the smart preset device grouping feature we are looking for, and WiiM seem to be changing course to focus on enhancing Smart Presets before implementing these new Sound Profiles. I have not tried the beta but seems promising based on posts in this other thread
Post in thread 'Beta Test: Sound Profile'

 

[mr_paslow]

Anyone still following this topic? I love the WiM system. I have a main group of four devices and just added a Sound Lite as the start of a second group today. I still find the way groups and presets are handled to be somewhat clumsy. Hoping to aee a release with these new ideas sometime.

 

[RyanWithWiiM]

Anyone still following this topic? I love the WiM system. I have a main group of four devices and just added a Sound Lite as the start of a second group today. I still find the way groups and presets are handled to be somewhat clumsy. Hoping to aee a release with these new ideas sometime.

I'm following it! And eagerly hunting down software devs all the time to ask about what's next and how it's going

 

[SuperPele]

I'm following it! And eagerly hunting down software devs all the time to ask about what's next and how it's going

@RyanWithWiiM thanks for sticking with this! Further to my message above, I did try the grouping option in the Sound Profile beta and it worked well for grouping devices but not ungrouping. When my Ultra was not grouped with any other devices, activating the Sound Profile configured with group output properly grouped my 6 WiiM devices as expected. However, when I reconfigured the Sound Profile to only output to my Ultra, it did not ungroup the Ultra from all the other devices as I had hoped.

Just wanted to flag this as something to mention to the software devs if you could, as I believe the combination of grouping and ungrouping functions would give us the control we are looking for.

 

[Wiimer]

@RyanWithWiiM thanks for sticking with this! Further to my message above, I did try the grouping option in the Sound Profile beta and it worked well for grouping devices but not ungrouping. When my Ultra was not grouped with any other devices, activating the Sound Profile configured with group output properly grouped my 6 WiiM devices as expected. However, when I reconfigured the Sound Profile to only output to my Ultra, it did not ungroup the Ultra from all the other devices as I had hoped.

Just wanted to flag this as something to mention to the software devs if you could, as I believe the combination of grouping and ungrouping functions would give us the control we are looking for.

The beta tester (including myself) has already reported that issue, and the team has responded that they are considering improvements. For more details, please refer to the beta test thread.

Also, please report any issues or suggestions you find during the beta test via a ticket. I recommend including the prefix [xxx Beta Test] in the ticket title.

 

[anonyless]

@RyanWithWiiM thanks for sticking with this! Further to my message above, I did try the grouping option in the Sound Profile beta and it worked well for grouping devices but not ungrouping. When my Ultra was not grouped with any other devices, activating the Sound Profile configured with group output properly grouped my 6 WiiM devices as expected. However, when I reconfigured the Sound Profile to only output to my Ultra, it did not ungroup the Ultra from all the other devices as I had hoped.

Just wanted to flag this as something to mention to the software devs if you could, as I believe the combination of grouping and ungrouping functions would give us the control we are looking for.

what i do as a workaround , is use to use the WiiM's API to ungroup devices via http command :

https://10.0.0.66/httpapi.asp?command=multiroom:SlaveKickout:10.0.0.62

the http target, is the master device (in your case, 10.0.0.66 is the Ultra's IP address) and the slave IP is one of your grouped devices to it. for some reason, this command "kicks" all grouped devices, not just the specific IP in SlaveKickout. but I only tested this with Ultra grouped to Pro and Pro Plus . it should work with 6 devices as well.
notice first time you run the https commands from a browser, it would give you security certificate warning ("accept the risk")