Support for IP IR Bridges

Feature Requests
4

I put something together to be able to send IR commands using my Global Cache iTach.

I created it as a ‘notify’ component as I felt this would be a good place to start due to its similarities to what I was trying to do and it existing HA integration/documentation.

I have uploaded the component to my GitHub below:

A summary of how it works.

  • It allows for the sending of onetime commands to an IP socket.
  • In the example below and the configuration that I have is sending “sendir” commands to an Global Cache iTach IP2IR device.
  • All “messages” or commands are terminated with “\r” or carriage return.
    I may make this customisable later.
  • I called it IP2SL as even though I am sending IR commands they are really just serial commands activating the sending of IR.
  • I am currently not doing anything with the returned data apart from logging it at “info” level.
  • In this usage example I have two scripts that I can call to turn my Panasonic TV on or off.
  • This component may be adaptable to other IP to IR devices as mentioned in the opening post.

Example config

notify:
- name: ip2sl
  platform: ip2sl
  host: 192.168.2.210
  port: 4998
  timeout: 10 # Optional

Example usage in script

script:
  tv_on:
    sequence:
      - service: notify.ip2sl
        data:
            message: "sendir,1:1,1,36764,1,1,128,63,16,16,16,48,16,16,16,16,\
                      16,16,16,16,16,16,16,16,16,16,16,16,16,16,16,16,16,16,\
                      16,48,16,16,16,16,16,16,16,16,16,16,16,16,16,16,16,16,\
                      16,16,16,48,16,16,16,16,16,16,16,16,16,16,16,16,16,16,\
                      16,16,16,16,16,48,16,48,16,48,16,48,16,48,16,16,16,16,\
                      16,16,16,48,16,48,16,48,16,48,16,48,16,16,16,48,16,2712"

  tv_off:
    sequence:
      - service: notify.ip2sl
        data:
            message: "sendir,1:1,1,36764,1,1,128,63,16,16,16,48,16,16,16,16,\
                      16,16,16,16,16,16,16,16,16,16,16,16,16,16,16,16,16,16,\
                      16,48,16,16,16,16,16,16,16,16,16,16,16,16,16,16,16,16,\
                      16,16,16,48,16,16,16,16,16,16,16,16,16,16,16,16,16,16,\
                      16,16,16,48,16,48,16,48,16,48,16,48,16,48,16,16,16,16,\
                      16,48,16,48,16,48,16,48,16,48,16,48,16,16,16,48,16,2712"

Note: To split the long string without introducing additional spaces double quotes are required with a backslash \ at the end of every line.

Configuration variables:

  • host (Required): The IP or hostname of the device.
  • port (Required): The port of the device.
  • name (Optional): Setting the optional parameter name allows multiple notifiers to be created. The default value is notify. The notifier will bind to the service notify.NOTIFIER_NAME.
  • timeout (Optional): The socket timeout time in seconds. Defaults to 10s.