Enhanced Music Controller

Mikhail Kulesh

About this app

This app allows remote control of a Network Player or a Network A/V Receiver via the local network.
The app supports Onkyo/Pioneer/Integra/TEAC released in April 2016 or later and Denon/Marantz with build-in HEOS technology.

The two most popular features of the app are music playback and sound profile management.

This "Premium" version implements exactly the same receiver control functionality as the free version, but has more flexible user interface.
It allows to create home screen widgets for playback control and shortcuts, reorder the play queue using drag-and-drop, change the font and buttons size and show/hide/reorder all control elements for all tabs.

Other benefits include:
- Maximum privacy: No ads, no trackers, no telemetry, no special permissions like GPS
- The modern Material design supports different color themes and works on smartphones and/or tablets in portrait and landscape mode
- One-click access to music playback actions
- One-click access to media items using shortcuts
- Full music playback control (play, stop, pause, track up/down, time seek, repeat and random modes)
- Full tone control (listening modes, bass, treble, balance, channel levels, and all zone volume)
- Enhanced Play Queue support (add, replace, remove, remove all, change playback order)
- TuneIn Radio, Deezer, Spotify and Tidal streaming (if supported by receiver)
- DAB / FM / AM (if supported by receiver)
- Multi-zone support (if supported by receiver)
- Multi-room support: Allows control of groups of devices attached via FlareConnect (for Onkyo/Pioneer/Integra only). Ability to control FlareConnect without WiFi
- Control of devices attached via RI (for Onkyo/Pioneer/Integra only)
- Display device details and control device settings such as dimmer level, digital filter, auto power, and sleep timer
- Allows control of receivers over an OpenVPN connection (even over a cellular connection)
- Allows to rename input channels and zones when this feature is not supported in the firmware

Known limitations:
- Please note that the app does not support the music streaming from your phone to the network player or the receiver
- In order to login into Deezer, Tidal, or Spotify, you need the official Onkyo/Denon app additionally to this app
- Pioneer models before year 2016 are NOT supported, for example: VSX-424, VSX-529, VSX-830, VSX-920K, VSX-923, VSX-924, VSX-1021, VSX-1121, SC-95, SC-LX79, N-50, N-50a, N-70A
- Following Denon models are not supported: AVR-X1000, DNP-730AE, Heos Link 2, Denon Home 150, Marantz n40
- Following models do not support "Play Queue" feature (that is a limitation of the Onkyo firmware): CR-N765, DTR-40.5, HM76, HT-R693, HT-R695, TX-8130, TX-8150, TX-NR626, TX-NR636, TX-NR646, TX-RZ900

At the moment, the app is tested and works with following devices:
- Onkyo: TX-L20D, TX-L50, TX-NR414, TX-NR509, TX-NR525, TX-NR535, TX-NR575E, TX-NR616, TX-NR636, TX-NR646, TX-NR656, TX-NR676E, TX-NR686, TX-NR696, TX-NR818, TX-RZ50, TX-RZ70, TX-RZ810, TX-RZ830, TX-RZ900, TX-RZ1100, TX-8130, TX-8150, TX-8250, TX-8260, TX-8270, TX-8390, TX-8470, R-N855, CS-N575D, CR-N755, CR-N765, CR-N775D, HT-S7805, NS-6130, NS-6170, NCP-302
- Integra: DTM-6, DRX-5.2, DTR 30.7, DTR 40.7
- Pioneer (models after 2016): VSX-LX101, VSX-LX103, VSX-LX104, VSX-LX302, VSX-LX303, VSX-LX503, VSX-LX504, VSX-S520D, VSX-831, VSX-832, VSX-932, VSX-933, VSX-935, VSX-1131, SC-LX701, SC-LX901, SX-N30, SX-S30DAB, NC-50DAB, N-50AE, N-70AE, XC-HM86D, MRX-3, MRX-5
- Teac: NT-503, AG-D500
- Denon with build-in HEOS: DRA-800H, AVR-S750H, AVR-S760H, AVR-X1500H, AVR-X1800H, AVR-X2400H, AVR-X2600H, AVR-X2700H, AVR-X2800H, AVR-X3700H, AVR-X3800H, AVR-X4300H, AVR-X4400H, AVR-X4500H, AVR-X6300H, AVR-X6400H
- Marantz with build-in HEOS: NR1200, NR1508, NR1510, NR1711, SR5015, SR6015, SR7015, Cinema 40, Cinema 50, Cinema 60

The app is 100% open source. Please feel free to download, explore, fork or contribute to it on https://github.com/mkulesh/onpc

Ratings and reviews

Excellent app... unbelievably excellent. I tried to get Amazon Music app to work... takes a really long time to connect to my receiver via wifi, (the receiver itself is on Ethernet), takes a really long time to start playing a song, huge lag between songs, and the songs kept cutting out. I couldn't even get the YouTube music app to work. Selected Amazon on the Enhanced Music Controller media tab, selected a playlist, and it started playing in a couple of seconds with no lag between songs.

This app is fantastic. I have purchased the app on all my platforms (Android, iOS, and Windows) it gives me the functionality to make enjoying the hardware easier and I can place the device remote in storage to keep it if needed. So far though I haven't found anything I need to do on the receiver that I can't do with this app. Thanks

It's better app for controlling Onkyo receiver than the manufacturer's app. However, the UI could be improved to make the key functions easier accessible. I can imagine that sacrificing some space from the album picture frame could give more space for UI to make buttons large or even to squeeze more functions to the default tab to avoid tab switching. For listening modes, I would rather use some drop-down menus split to groups by the purpose like it's on the physical RC (game, movie, music).

What’s new

• Allowed time seek on Denon receivers
• Possibility to change the size of the song and artist subtitles
• Removed keyboard restrictions in DLNA search
• Fixed a bug: group names duplicate with 2 AVR's
• Fixed a bug: not able to connect to Denon X3100W