Broadlink Manager - Nicer way to Learn and Send IR/RF commands

Window 10 only

Great tool @Tomer_Klein! Thanks for your time and effort to share it! Have you ever though of “converting” this to a Hassio Addon? Like Frenck does… Sorry, I am not a programmer and not sure if would be impossible or not. That would be an amazing project as well. Thanks again!!!

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Good work,

Is this learning codes from the device (TV etc) remote control or are you getting them from LIRC or some other database?

If it could be linked to something like LIRC (or even allow hand typing of the hex codes) it would give people access to commands that are not included on the remote.

Thanks for this, I tried to use it, but unfortunately it’s not working for me.

I have RM2 Pro+ and RM Mini3 on the network.

When I click the ‘scan’ It detected the RM Pro as “RM2 Pro Plus3”

When I click on learn command (IR or RF) nothing happens when i send it signals.

Looking for devices...
Found device : RM2 Pro Plus3
Connected...
Device ready to use.
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IP Address	: 192.168.XXX.XXX
Port		: 80
MAC Address	: 78:0F:77:XX:XX:XX
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RF Frequency Learning mode is enabled.
RF Frequency Scan[1/2]
[Hold the button down!]

Device pairing via add device doesn’t work for me, I can’t add a device by entering the IP / Mac address, and I can’t click rescan because it says “Network: Broadlink AP not found”

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Also if anyone feels like helping me out, I’m after 4x RF codes from the user-defined remote called “rangehood”. It can be added in the broadlink app but clicking ‘add remote’ -> ‘user defined’ -> ‘search’ -> ‘rangehood’. The full name of the remote is Whispair Montecarlo Rangehood.

for now it’s only supported on Windows 10 because it depends on Microsoft .NET framwork 4.6.
will try to make work on lower version.

Thanks,
the codes comes from the remote itself.
when entering into learning mode the RM device turn the ir or rf signal into Hex code and then my software converts it to base64 (nedded for Home Assistant) and saves it.

after saving the vommands you can access the file with the commands by clicking the yellow folder icon at the right side of the menu.

Thenk you @Schneider,
currently this app is written in c# and therefore will not be supported in Hass.io.
but you gave me an idea.
Broadlink has cli written in python and can do the learning and sending IR/RF codes.
this can be used in order to develope Hass.io addon…

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Thanks for the explanation. Would it be possible to pass a hex code to the RM so that the RM saves it as a ‘learnt’ command?

works fine for IR codes, but RF codes just seem to hang.

Have scanned them in fine with the broadlink app to test so the devices definitely work.

The light on the RM Pro shows its in scan mode, but the interface just hangs at:

RF Frequency Learning mode is enabled.
RF Frequency Scan[1/2]
[Hold the button down!]

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My rm pro is already connected to my home wifi. I could find it using the scan button. It didn’t do anything when i clicked learn rfcodes.

How does device pairing work. Should we factory reset the device and then pair it. I could not get this part to do anything and I’m not sure if it is necessary to pair of my rm device is already on the home wifi.

PS. I wrote a guide on how to lean rf codes the old fashion way that may be of use for some one.

https://community.home-assistant.io/t/guide-how-to-learn-broadlink-rf-codes

Would love to give this a try, but am windows 7 on my main pc, and osx on my laptop, tried to install windows 10 in paralles on osx, but couldn’t get this to work, but didn’t have much time to play around with it, will try again tomorrow. But if there is any way to run it on any other platform, that would be amazing.

I have the exact same problem. So far, I have only been able to learn RF codes via the app.

Btw: I love this program; it is really handy :smiley:

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same for me. Doesn’t work for RF Codes right now, only getting those via the app :confused:

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@Cee Hi,
after a few retrys i succeeded to run the app correctly on windows 7.
i have created a new setup and you can download it from here:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/broadlink-manager/files/Windows%207/

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Amazing, thank you very much. Just downloaded it and gave it a quick try with my RM Mini 3 and it seems to be working perfectly for IR codes. This will make life so much easier.

I did partition my Macbook this morning with a trial of windows 10, just to run this, so I had also got it running on there, but as above, actually having it on my main PC will speed things up so much :+1:

Any one succes with RF code? Can you confirm

RF Frequency Learning mode is enabled.
RF Frequency Scan[1/2]
[Hold the button down!]

:frowning:

Work well for me
1st hold for long
2nd short and repeat

Hi, i have 2 rm mini and 1 rm pro but only one rm mini shows up in the program!
any ideas.

//:Erik

I have the same issue with 1 RM Mini and 1 RM Pro