Hi everyone.
I’m semi-new to home assistant and I’m trying to find a device that would allow me to control TV’s and Receivers via IR. Specifically looking for something NOT battery operated and that has a 3.5mm out put to connect an IR lead to… one of these for example:
Not sure if such a device exists, or if something I’d have to build out, but definitely looking for some pointers in the right direction.
I appreciate the help in advance!
Probably not, but you can use wemos d1 mini + ir shield for a diy solution. Then just add another to forward the ir signal
Might consider this one using hdmi cec for your tv & avr
Probably not, because of the stereo plug,
But technically it’s just IR-LED with cable. If you have soldering iron, you can use whatever home assistant compatible IR-blaster, desolder one of the emitters and resolder it with cable.
Did you really do a hardware transplant replacing a (already) ESPHome compatible MCU with another ESPHome compatible MCU? 
Yes- because at the time, ESP8266 was a lot more mature than libretiny, and also works with alternatives like Tasmota. I have a load of other ESP devices so standardisation reduces complexity (IT architect).
Really? LibreTiny (Beken & Realtek) support is already stable for 1 year now. But even the year before I used (the libretiny/libretuya esphome fork 
) and never had any bug at all. Straight from the beginning it was pure esphome goodness 
Your linked post is two month old (july’24) - what stability issues did you need to overcome with libretiny? 
That’s why we use epshome - no? It makes it completely abstract from the (supported) MCU used. 
(On the other hand your “transplanting” looked like the opposite of reducing complexity 
)
Tasmota doesn’t seem to support any of the new common chips that are widely used today, but there is another project that somehow mimics that windows 95 style some people love, it’s called OpenBeken. But like you say? Why increase complexity with different *wares if esphome rules everything 