Since I saw, that there is a nice component, that allows to intercept commands send by the wizmote, I bought one of these remotes. But now the issue is, that the Wiz app requires at least one light to be already paired with the wifi in order to connect the remote to the same network. Has anyone managed to add his remote to the wifi network without needing to have a Wiz light bulb?
Thanks!
Jessy answered it here:
Hello, just checking if you have managed to install the blueprint and connect to the wizmote. I am struggling to access it as I am not sure how to get the IP address, specially as I don’t have any other Wiz device.
You need to flash a ESP device with the ESPHome firmware provided on the github page. Then look subscribe to the esphome.wizmote_choose events in the HA dev tools:
After that press any of the upper buttons of the device and look at the events that show up. There is the mac adress of the remote.
The remote itself does not connect to you wifi. It just sends a wifi signal and whichever device listens to that wifi signal can do stuff. And in this case the ESP device listens for that signal and forwards the signal/action to home assistant. There you can use it within a automation like this:
If you only have one remote you don’t need the mac adress of the device at all. You can just listen for the remote signal and tell HA to act accordingly. Let me know if you have any futher questions about this. You can also contact me in the discord channel if that helps 
Hi my apologies for such basic questions, but does flashing an esp device means that extra hardware is needed (a separate esp board) on which to install the firmware from the GitHub page?
