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A 2006 whole-home audio amp brought into Home Assistant via ESP32
An attic-bound B&K CT600 six-zone amp was hooked to an ESP32, with Claude Code writing the ESPHome YAML and dashboard cards from the amp's command protocol document.
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A house came wired for a 2006 whole-home audio system, a B&K Components CT600 multi-zone amp that had sat in the attic for years. The amp takes ASCII commands over an RJ45 port, so the owner found B&K's command protocol document, fed it to Claude Code and asked it to write the ESPHome YAML for an ESP32 plus some basic custom dashboard cards.
It took some trial and error, and he says Claude did about 90% of it with some fine tuning needed afterwards. The result is a six-zone audio system controlled from his phone and easy to tie into Home Assistant automations and scenes.
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From a short post by the maker, so the details are as they tell them.
- Reddit: Super cheap Sonos alternative - yet another Claude postReddit poster: mshaeferPosted
The maker's post on r/homeassistant.
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