Sky Remote

With the new Sky integration I thought try make a remote for it. Early stages, just got a few basic buttons on the card (and they’re not aligned). Button actions are from a script.

Is there any way to just have the buttons perform the action without the pop up then having to hit run?


Excellent!

Just about to investigate doing something similar. Remote seems to work with an older SKY+ HD Box.

Hoping to control my sky box that is in a different room to where I have a projector and screen.
I have a HDMI splitter feeding the projector via a HDMI cable.

This link should be useful :-

https://community.home-assistant.io/t/styling-elements-in-picture-elements-card-a-small-tutorial/315252

Just starting but this bit of code seems to work for me.

type: picture-elements
elements:
  - type: action-button
    style:
      left: 64.5%
      top: 10.5%
    action: remote.send_command
    title: "On"
    target:
      entity_id:
        - remote.192_168_0_61
    data:
      command:
        - power
image: /local/skyremote.png

If you leave the title text blank it still creates a hotspot on the location that works when pressed. So no text overlay on the buttons and just use the remote graphic

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That’s fantastic thank you! Now I have the correct command I’ve used Copilot AI to create the code for every button/command listed on the HA documentation for it! Saved me ages. I just need to reposition them all!

Mark,

No problem. Thanks for giving me the kick to complete my remote.

This link may speed things up for you a bit. I posted my example.

https://community.home-assistant.io/t/sky-hd-remote-control/805825

Cheers.

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Fantastic! I just need to work out how to do the volume buttons for my Samsung TV now!

not quite the answer to your question but there are loads of examples, etc for remote controls in this thread for the long established custom component for SkyQ

sorry…reply was meant for OP (@markbez) not your post @santiniuk :see_no_evil:

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