Hi, I am looking for IR remote “combinator”. It should be one remote which can replace multiple others but the main control should be stil physical remote. I know of devices such as Broadlink but there the input is via phone application which translates to IR/RF/WiFi. I am looking for device which can accept inputs from IR/RF remote and remoap them to IR.
The idea is to be similar to Logitech Harmony but smarter Instead of switching the devices explicitly it should be possible to map the buttons of the “master remote” to different devices so by giving the command to the base station it should re-transmit to the particular device.
Ideally the base station should be integrated with HA so I can give commands over the network as well.
I am sure it can be implemented with ESP32 and few IR receiver/transmitters + cheap universal IR remote. Has anybody worked on such device or do you know of such a project?
Thanks.
I got inspired by this article and bought broken broadlink 4 mini and ESP32. A diode array in nice housing was the main thing I was missing for DYI solution. At least the mini 3 in the article has input and output IR diodes so it should be relatively simple program to write converting the signals from one remote controller to another and achieve the ultimate remote control on the cheap