Is there a way I can have a second Broadlink IR Blaster act as a slave and repeat commands sent to the first one? This would save lots of learning commands and set up
I’m assuming you have two identical broadlinks in separate rooms controlling separate identical AC units. I don’t believe you can “slave” one to the other. However, the learned commands are stored in “/config/.storage/broadlink_remote_xxxx_codes” for each broadlink. You can copy commands from one to the other, or use the base64 code (prefixed with b64:) directly in the service call. Therefore you can learn it once and send a service call to each broadlink.
I think you may have to reload the integration if you copy between files - can’t remember from last time I did it.
Thanks so much for responding, I tried copying the commands from the file where the commands were learned to the second broadlink’s file, but they wouldn’t work. I didn’t reboot, so I will try that, but I did read in one thread that the .jason files couldn’t simply be copied and pasted.
They can, but you need to be careful that the file you save is valid.
Copy the full contents and check it with an online json validator before you restart.
I copied, pasted and re-booted and it worked! Thanks!! Also FYI, I have two AC Mini-Splits in one area, but one broadlink won’t reach both of them with the commands which is why I need one broadlink for each AC unit
If you find the broadlinks to expensive then you can buy cheap ESP8285s with IR trancievers on aliexpress for a fraction of the cost of a broadlink
Thanks! Great suggestion