Tuya/SmartLife IR Blaster support

This has been requested a lot. The ability to get Tuya IR blasters/transmitters to work with HA. currently it says unsupported.

P.s- I am aware there is a workaround, but a workaround is not the proper way. Having integrated support will go a long way.

well you would be better to find some alternatives as tuya based devices are becoming more and more complicated to reflash due to boring modifications made by Tuya :frowning:

Can’t activate tuya ir via home assistant

I’m looking into this as well. Would you mind telling me where you found the workaround? True integration would be great but I’d be happy if I could get it working any way I can.

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Is that this one

https://www.zigbee2mqtt.io/devices/UFO-R11.html

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i have the tuya ir blaster that works with wifi, so if you have the zigbee one, not sure if below steps would work for you.

1- configure the IR blaster in smartlife app.
2- setup the remote in smartlife app and confirm that the device is working fine.
3- enable the tuya integration( as far as i am aware, local tuya does not support ir blasters at this time) in home assistant.
4- in the smart life app, create a “tap-to-run” scene with the remote “state” that you want to map with HA
5- after a few mins, the scene from smartlife app with show under scenes in HA.

Hope this helps.

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Yes that’s it! I have never used zigbee2mqtt, I’ve always used ZHA, going to try setting it up tonight!

Yeah, I have 1 TTR for every button on my remote.
And as soon as I need to reset/change networks/etc they all break and I have to create them again.

There is a Tuya-IR plugin for homebridge that basically beings all your tuya remotes in to homekit. it works really well with Air conditioners and some other remotes also. I am using it with my gree dumb inverter AC’s and it just works. Just install homebridge and in the plugins search for homebridge-tuy-IR and all you have to give it is the device ID and the rest of the stuff it picks from the tuya iot.

Unfortunately, I have Android and not apple so I do not use home kit.

Hi @akshay.dogra ! hope you are doing well.
Smart workarround, worked for me!
Thank you for share!

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Thanks for this workaround. Strange, that it’s impossible to call IR directly
btw if new scene does not appear in HA, then integration reload helps

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