Fairly green on the Home Assistant front, would like some advise from those more experienced.
For reference I am running Home Assistant on a Raspberry Pi 4, do not have any additional adapters for Zigbee/Z-Wave/Thread etc.
I’ve got Tapo P110M’s connected over Matter that I am using to monitor and control power for TV.
Challenge I am running into is I can turn the power off and on with my phone, but this isn’t as smooth an experience as I would like.
Recognise I can add Home Assistant access to other mobiles, coming at this from ease of use to make it more seamless for others using the TV.
I am wondering if the best way to solve this would be an IR sensor and transmitter to turn power on with a button press from the TV remote.
How should I approach this?
Looked at the below devices and I am a bit overwhelmed by choice. Ideally the device would be battery powered and I wouldn’t need to get an additional adapter to set this up for Zigbee/Z-wave, but understand I may need to anyway depending on what hardware I add in future.
I do this same thing; monitor power for state and the rm4 to send power on/off commands. With this setup you still need a way to trigger the command. I’m using a ha dashboard but you mentioned a remote. What remote is this that is different than the tv remote?
HDMI CEC is good method for TV control.
You may use the connected media players (usually controlled by HA integrations for this).
I dont monitor or control my TV directly.
I have roku and setup HDMI CEC between TV and Roku. Turning ON / OFF roku performs same function on TV. Volume up / down roku controls TV. TV input auto sets to roku input when roku power on (and I belive if I change roku channel). It provides functional control of TV. TV has integration but I found it was unneeded and provided no benefit so I stop using.
I don’t follow where I mentioned another remote, other than the one for the TV. Ideally would use that as the trigger for the command, using something like the rm4 sounds like the way to go.
Hadn’t considered using CEC, the TV is from Hisense and it does have CEC.
The other media devices are on the same power board as the TV, with the power board being connected to the Tapo switch.
Prefer this configuration as then all appliances are off when not in use, CEC is an option, would need to swap power boards to implement it.