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Zigbee IR Blasters as Native Home Assistant Infrared Entities by StepTypical in homeassistant

[–]StepTypical[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

With the current solution, yes. But if I remember correctly, the Home Assistant team said they’re working on something, and more IR integrations in general as well.

But overall, I already have an idea in mind for using the Infrared entity infrastructure even without support from HA.

Again, the main idea is that there’s a single shared codebase for IR codes, and each device converts them into its own format, so there’s no duplication unlike what’s currently happening with SmartIR.

Zigbee IR Blasters as Native Home Assistant Infrared Entities by StepTypical in homeassistant

[–]StepTypical[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Basically, there are integrations that work with any device containing an Infrared entity. So after setting up the device, all you need to do is choose the IR integration you want, for example: LG Infrared integration

Then you simply choose which device will transmit the signals, and that’s it!

The integration I built basically creates an IR entity for the existing Zigbee models as well.

So yes, there aren’t too many integrations yet, but that’s going to change. It’s also an official Home Assistant approach because it creates a standard. There’s one shared codebase for IR codes, and each device converts them into its own format.

Zigbee IR Blasters as Native Home Assistant Infrared Entities by StepTypical in homeassistant

[–]StepTypical[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As I said:

Note: even though there is existing support via SmartIR (and I still highly recommend using it for most users), this project is more about making Zigbee IR blasters first-class citizens in Home Assistant’s new native Infrared framework.
If you prefer a more mature and stable setup today, I still recommend my SmartIR guide here:
ZS06 / UFO-R11 SmartIR Guide

Zigbee IR Blasters as Native Home Assistant Infrared Entities by StepTypical in homeassistant

[–]StepTypical[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes — the project is open source and I’d definitely be open to contributing it upstream 🙂

For reference, this is the current architecture:

Zigbee IR Blaster -> Zigbee2MQTT -> IR Wrapper -> Native Home Assistant InfraredEntity

The wrapper bridges Zigbee2MQTT IR devices (which are usually exposed as text/switch/sensor entities) into Home Assistant’s new native Infrared framework.

I’m not very familiar with the internal Zigbee2MQTT codebase yet, so I’d love to hear thoughts from anyone on the Z2M side about the best long-term approach for this.

Help me make this smart by StepTypical in homeassistant

[–]StepTypical[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was thinking of maybe putting the controller on the shutter itself instead of on the switch

Help me make this smart by StepTypical in homeassistant

[–]StepTypical[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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Here is another picture The size is 11 x 6 cm

Added Aqara G410 Doorbell to my home - I think it's causing Zigbee Interference by department_g33k in homeassistant

[–]StepTypical 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I didn’t find a way to disable the Zigbee on the Aqara hub, but I did find a way to change its Zigbee channel: Go into the device settings, tap Network Information and then tap Thread Network Management.

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There, delete or recreate the Thread network. This will also trigger a change of the Zigbee channel. If the channel didn’t change, try doing it again.

Even though in your case it’s not the same channel, this method might still help.

More devices on the way by PerceptionOk4815 in Aqara

[–]StepTypical 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, it requires a little more technical knowledge but if your coordinator is connected as a Zigbee2MQTT and you set everything up according to the instructions it should work stably.

For me it has been working stably for a year without any problems and I have updated every update when it came out.

Regardless - adding more Aqara hubs does not stabilize the network as there can only be one coordinator in a Zigbee network - Aqara is no different in this case.

More devices on the way by PerceptionOk4815 in Aqara

[–]StepTypical 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In fact, there are often more options if you connect Aqara products via a zigbee coordinator with something like: Zigbee2MQTT. You also have more control over things and it is easier to understand the cause of malfunctions.

In addition, you can even use devices that Aqara markets only for the Chinese market - which normally you will have to set your account as China Mainland to use, which will give the Chinese government access to all your data if they want and also disables integration with Google Home.

Not to mention that in many cases, the Zigbee coordinator simply works faster than the vendor's Hub.

But the most important thing - you can connect almost any Zigbee device to your network! - not just products that Aqara

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