Control any HomeAssitant entity_id from esphome

ESPHome
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I’ve got an IR receiver/transmitter working and I would like to make it listen to a signal from a remote and perform an action (such as turn on a light)

I set a binary sensor and can use Home Assistant automations to perform the action, but if I want to set a few of them, it seems like a messy approach.

It seems to me there should be a way to “import” a home assistant device_id and perform an action on it (turn off; change color etc) in a similar way that I can import a sensor ID and display it’s value on a display.

tl:dr control one ESPHome device from another ESPHome device.

Any tips?

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Mqtt perhaps?

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Ooh, possibly.
I’m not using any MQTT at the moment, so it didn’t occur to me, but yeah, that should be possible. I should be able to test by sending an MQTT command to HomeAssistant and checking what happens.
Cheers.