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The Broadlink integrationIntegrations connect and integrate Home Assistant with your devices, services, and more.[Learn more] allows you to control and monitor Broadlink universal remotes, smart plugs, power strips, switches and sensors.
The entitiesAn entity represents a sensor, actor, or function in Home Assistant. Entities are used to monitor physical properties or to control other entities. An entity is usually part of a device or a service.[Learn more] are divided into four subdomains:
The remote entitiesAn entity represents a sensor, actor, or function in Home Assistant. Entities are used to monitor physical properties or to control other entities. An entity is usually part of a device or a service.[Learn more] allow you to learn and send codes with universal remotes. They are created automatically when you configure devices with IR/RF capabilities.
After calling this service, you will be prompted to press the buttons in the same order as provided. Check the notifications to stay on track and make sure you are pressing the right button at the right time.
The toggle bit is common when a button is used for multiple purposes, such as the power button, which can turn the television on and off, and the volume button, which can be used with a short press or a long press.
When the LED blinks for the first time, press the button you want to learn. Then wait for the LED to blink again and press the same button. By doing so, two different codes will be learned for the same command, and they will be sent alternately at each call.
The learned codes are stored in /config/.storage/ in a JSON file called broadlink_remote_MACADDRESS_codes. You can open this file with a text editor and copy the codes to set up custom IR/RF switches or to send them as base64 codes, but beware: the files in the .storage folder should never be edited manually.
The sensor entitiesAn entity represents a sensor, actor, or function in Home Assistant. Entities are used to monitor physical properties or to control other entities. An entity is usually part of a device or a service.[Learn more] allow you to monitor Broadlink sensors. These entities are created automatically when you configure a device that has sensors.
The light entitiesAn entity represents a sensor, actor, or function in Home Assistant. Entities are used to monitor physical properties or to control other entities. An entity is usually part of a device or a service.[Learn more] allow you to control Broadlink lights. You can turn them on and off, change brightness, adjust the color or set a color temperature. These entities are created automatically when you configure a device that has lights.
The switch entitiesAn entity represents a sensor, actor, or function in Home Assistant. Entities are used to monitor physical properties or to control other entities. An entity is usually part of a device or a service.[Learn more] allow you to control and monitor Broadlink smart plugs, power strips and switches. You can turn them on and off, and you can monitor their state and power consumption, when available. These entities are created automatically when you configure a device that has switches.
The first step is to configure the device normally via the configuration flow. Then add these lines to your configuration.yamlThe configuration.yaml file is the main configuration file for Home Assistant. It lists the integrations to be loaded and their specific configurations. In some cases, the configuration needs to be edited manually directly in the configuration.yaml file. Most integrations can be configured in the UI.[Learn more] file:
Use the e-Control app to learn the codes from all of your suitable remotes. Depending on the remote, try to add useful names for the buttons and/or the remotes. This will mean that you should only have to run this process once and will help with getting them quickly into Home Assistant. Dump the files in the app by navigating to the hamburger icon, select share and select, then choose Share to other phones on WLAN.
Open iBackup viewer then select the iOS backup that you created. Navigate to the App icon and then scroll until you find e-control.app, select this. Select and extract the files jsonButton, jsonIrCode and jsonSublr; they will be located in the Documents/SharedData section. Put these in the same location as the getBroadlinkSharedData.py.
Now open a Command Prompt and navigate to the directory where the aforementioned files are located e.g., C:\Python27. Now run the command python getBroadlinkSharedData.py, you should see something like this:
Now there should be a file with the name of the remote you chose in the same directory ending in .txt. Open that up and it will contain the Base64 code required for Home Assistant. To ensure these codes work correctly you may need to add == to the end of the code in your configuration.yamlThe configuration.yaml file is the main configuration file for Home Assistant. It lists the integrations to be loaded and their specific configurations. In some cases, the configuration needs to be edited manually directly in the configuration.yaml file. Most integrations can be configured in the UI.[Learn more] file (or wherever you have your switches).
Install the Broadlink Control palette in Node-RED (click the Hamburger menu at top right corner> Settings> Palette> Install and type Broadlink. Click install on the node-red-contrib-broadlink-control.