Remote Devices

Custom Home Assistant integration that creates button, media_player, fan, and light entities to control IR and RF devices through the Home Assistant 2026.5 infrared and radio_frequency platforms.

What does this do?

This is a consumer integration for the HA infrared and radio_frequency platforms. It sends commands through any compatible emitter (like Broadlink IR/RF Emitter or ESPHome).

Set it up, pick your device type, pick the matching emitter (the integration filters automatically based on whether the device uses IR or RF), and you get appropriate HA-native entities:

• A media_player entity for TVs and AV receivers (power, volume, mute)
• A fan entity for ceiling fans (speed, preset modes, direction)
• A light entity for lamps (on/off)
• Button entities for everything else
• Option to attach to an existing device (like Battery Notes does) instead of creating a separate one
• Reconfigure support — change emitter, type, or name after setup

Supported devices

Device Type	Protocol	Entities
LG TV	IR — NEC (addr 0x04)	media_player + 18 buttons
Samsung TV	IR — NEC (addr 0x07)	media_player + 15 buttons
Sharp TV (Aquos)	IR — Sharp (addr 0x01)	media_player + 20 buttons
Denon AVR Receiver	IR — Denon (addr 0x02)	media_player + 16 buttons
Audioengine A5+ Speakers	IR — extended NEC (addr 0x00FD)	media_player (volume + mute) + 3 buttons
Tristar PD-8779 Air Conditioner	IR — NEC (addr 0x04)	5 buttons (power, temp ±, mode, speed)
Philips RGBIC Lamp	IR — NEC (addr 0x00)	11 buttons
Amino Kamai 7X STB	IR — RC6 (raw learned)	8 buttons
Raw Test	IR — raw burst	1 button
Airwit Plafondventilator	RF 433 MHz — raw learned	fan + light + 3 buttons

Requirements

• Home Assistant 2026.5 or later
• An IR or RF emitter integration (e.g., Broadlink IR/RF Emitter, ESPHome IR/RF proxy)

Installation

HACS (Recommended)

Or manually:

1. Open HACS in Home Assistant
2. Click the three dots in the top right and select Custom repositories
3. Add this repository URL and select Integration as category
4. Click Download
5. Restart Home Assistant

Manual

1. Download the custom_components/remote_devices folder
2. Place it in your Home Assistant config/custom_components/ directory
3. Restart Home Assistant

Setup

Or manually:

1. Go to Settings > Devices & Services > Add Integration
2. Search for Remote Devices
3. Choose setup mode (new device or attach to existing)
4. Pick the device type (e.g., "Airwit Plafondventilator (RF 433 MHz)")
5. Pick the matching emitter (only emitters compatible with your device type's protocol are shown)
6. Optionally give it a name (e.g., "Slaapkamer ventilator")
7. Done — your fan/TV/lamp now shows up as proper HA entities

Airwit Plafondventilator

The Airwit ceiling fan is exposed as three entities under one device, so you get HA-native control:

• fan.airwit_plafondventilator — speeds 1-6 (mapped to 17%/33%/50%/67%/83%/100%), natural_wind preset, forward/reverse direction
• light.airwit_plafondventilator_lamp — on/off (lamp is a single toggle code; state is optimistic)
• 3 buttons: brightness_up, brightness_down, all_off

This means voice assistants ("Alexa, set ceiling fan to medium"), Lovelace fan/light cards, scenes, and standard automations all work without scripts.

Tristar PD-8779 Air Conditioner

Despite being an air conditioner, the PD-8779 remote is a plain NEC remote (address 0x04) that sends discrete button codes — the AC keeps its own temperature/mode state on its front display. It is therefore exposed as button entities that mirror the physical remote, not a climate entity:

• power, temp_up, temp_down, mode (cycles cool/dry/fan), speed (cycles fan speed)

The codes were decoded from real Broadlink-learned packets (all with valid NEC checksums). If your remote has extra buttons (timer, swing, sleep, …), learn them and open an issue — they're almost certainly more NEC codes on address 0x04 and easy to add.

Tip: if you'd prefer a single −/+ temperature stepper instead of two buttons, add a Tile card for a helper or use the temp_up/temp_down buttons in a custom card — the AC sends only relative steps, so there's no absolute "set 23 °C" code.

Testing

1. Raw test first (IR): Set up with "Raw Test Signal". Press the button. If your IR blaster blinks, the chain works.
2. TV / receiver / fan: Set up with the matching device type and emitter.
3. Dashboard: Add the appropriate fan/light/media_player card.

Adding more device types

Built-in protocol encoders: NEC (incl. extended NEC), Sharp, and Denon for IR. RF (Airwit) uses raw Broadlink-learned packets. For unsupported protocols, learned codes can be stored as raw timings — see rf_commands.py and nec.py for the pattern. PRs welcome!

Upgrading from 0.7.x (infrared_remote)

Version 0.8.0 renames the integration from infrared_remote to remote_devices to reflect that it now handles both IR and RF. To upgrade:

1. Remove the old "Infrared Remote" config entries from Settings > Devices & Services
2. Update via HACS (or replace the custom_components/infrared_remote folder with custom_components/remote_devices)
3. Restart Home Assistant
4. Add the new "Remote Devices" integration and re-create your devices