I’m really excited about the recent update expanding IR support. My home entertainment setup across multiple rooms relies heavily on Harmony, and I feel like it’s only a matter of time before Logitech completely discontinues it.
I’d like to contribute to improving IR support—specifically by helping build integrations for different device brands—but I’m not sure where to start.
Right now, I have an immediate need to create IR codes for a Panasonic DP-UB900 Blu-ray player. I’m using XIAO Smart IR Mate devices—one with the factory firmware and another running the ESPHome IR blaster firmware.
Is it possible to retrieve learned IR codes from the factory firmware on the IR Mate? I’d be happy to invest the time and effort to contribute to the infrared-protocols Python library, but I haven’t been able to figure out how to actually extract the codes.
The HA-IR integration might be able to give you what you need. You can attach a trigger to the sniffed codes and it creates an event entity that stores the pronto hex as an attribute.
My point is to extract those codes and share them with the community via projects like the Infrared-Protocols python library and ultimately create some custom integrations similar to LG-Infrared.
That’s a great idea! We need infrared-protocols populated (codes and protocols).
You can get PRONTO codes with HAIR, but there is always jitter. I’m building a snapping/editing tool in the next version of HAIR that should mitigate jitter.
Otherwise, there are many code databases out there you can use to test and port over to internet-protocols.
AC controls might be a good place to focus as their IR is more complex and could benefit from being in the /commands.
I've looked at a few databases but some of the devices I'm looking for are not in most. An example would be Anthem AV. I have a couple of their receivers, and I need more of control over them (Dim, bass treble) then the current integration provides (also the current integration is limited to just one receiver).
When do you expect the next version of HAIR to be released?
If you have a Harmony already, why not download that device from their db & capture the individual IR codes?
Their PC software was still working & downloading device files when I checked late last year.
You can't control AC with "list of possible codes". You need to decode the protocol.
The list would be about 10,000-1,000,000 different signals to cover all combinations of the remote.
I do have harmony's and that was the plan. I just wasn't sure how to capture the codes. HAIR works, I can capture the Pronto code, I just need to figure out how to convert it into what I'm seeing the infrared-protocols library.
