🎥 Controlling Multi-Zone AV Receivers

For AVRs that feature multiple video zones, AVA OS provides drivers for the additional zones.

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For AV receivers that have more than one zone, a separate IP driver lets you control the extra zones with AVA OS.

Introduction

At the time this video is being created, AVA OS can control additional zones for AV Receivers from Denon, Marantz, Onkyo, Integra, Pioneer, NAD, and Anthem.

There may be others, too. AVA adds new drivers often.

Check on the workswith.ava.com site to find whether other brands support additional zones.

File a request if you need support on a brand that currently doesn’t have a Zone 2 driver.

How To: NAD Example

Here’s what you do.

In this project, there is an NAD T778 AVR Zone 1 driver providing sound and video to the Living Room.

In the Kitchen, there are already a TV…and a Roku.

The TV is physically connected to the NAD’s Zone 2 output…

…so the project needs a driver for Zone 2.

Add the NAD IP driver for Zone 2.

It discovers on the wire easily.

Add it to correct Room…

And now you can do the wiring steps.

First select the applicable wiring diagram.

Then set the the AVR Zone 2’s output to the correct input on the TV…

Finally, connect the Roku to an input on the AVR.

And Zone 2 is now ready to control.

Concept: zone feature are asymmetrical

And here’s one last consideration.

Most AV Receivers have different capabilities between zones.

For example, Zone 1 on the NAD T778 supports 4K video and full surround audio.

But Zone 2 is only 1080p resolution…and 2-channel stereo.

So…a pro tip for you.

Don’t send a single source to multiple Zones.

Keep Zone 1 at its full audio and video capabilities by using separate source devices for each zone.

Just remember, a control platform cannot change how an AV Receiver handles audio and video resolution between zones.

Summary

But with that, you now can control each zone supported by a given AV Receiver’s set of IP drivers.