Sending UDP or TCP ASCII commands to device

[vantech2020 (RussTech)]

Hi,

I am new to home assistant, and loving it so far.

I have a lighting controller, which can receive ASCII commands via UDP and/or TCP. I wish to send for exmaple the following command: -

“Scene1” to 192.168.0.100 via UDP

Can anyone help me do this? I then want to trigger this command by Alexa.

Thanks,

Russell.

[tom_l]

@vantech2020

Can anyone help me do this?

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