HEOS Speaker Grouping and Linking Issues

[GitHubGoody]

I have a HEOS audio system and have pulled 6 of those speakers into MA. Three of them are in the same general area, so I would like to group them as described in Grouping Players method 2 under the User Interface section of the guide.

But, I do not have the ADD GROUP PLAYER option even though all of my Players are HEOS. Why?

Also, when I attempt to link Speakers (method 1), MA seems to only link 2 of the 3 at a time. Why?

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[GitHubGoody]

I'll answer my own question. It seems HEOS is not (yet?) natively supported by MA as a player. My HEOS Players are actually just HA entities and as such are not capable of all of the HEOS features, presumably including proper linking and grouping.

More here:
https://github.com/orgs/music-assistant/discussions/1167

[OzGav]

You should be able to create a universal group will all of the HEOS players however they won't ncessarily play in sync.

[GitHubGoody]

Right, everything else I read indicated those are a last resort. I need the group player to hold a queue, but these speakers are right next to each other, so they must stay in sync.

Is adding HEOS as a native player still in the works?

[OzGav]

It is not being worked on at all. It is the most highly voted but a dev with a HEOS amp needs to pick this up

[GitHubGoody]

Is there some way I could provide information from my system (two HEOS Drives (Amps) feeding 7 zones and a sound bar) to a dev then work with them to iterate through testing?

With the high polling results, I imagine I wouldn't be the only one interested in helping test even though I lack the coding chops.

[OzGav]

There just isn’t anyone with capacity at the moment. Someone new has to come along to work on it.

[GitHubGoody]

Ok, well if that changes, let me know and I'm happy to help test.