Universal remote ideas 2023 (no touch screens)

[staxza]

I am trying to plan for a universal AV remote for HA

For the input:
Using an RF remote with a usb dongle (G20s) plugged into an NUC running HA. This act as a
keyboard input with the Keyboard Remote
This will be uses for the event trigger
Then create an automation that use this event trigger
The problem with this setup is that the volume control will be clunky

For the output:
To control my TV I would use IP control in the action of the automation
Then I need to control the amp via IR. Either a Broadlink or the ESPhome IR transmitter
Please advice what would be the easiest and most reliable.

Another option would be a Flirc Skip

[koying (Chris B)]

Connecting to Nvidia Shield (or other Android TV) via Bluetooth for media control, wake/sleep

This is an example of remote: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005003624384228.html I also tried RF “airmouse” remotes that work fine. Currently, I’m using an old BT FireTV remote I had laying around That’s an example for keyboard_remote. Nothing fancy, it basically create HA events from keyboard events. keyboard_remote: - device_name: 'Amazon Fire TV Remote Keyboard' emulate_key_hold: true type: - 'key_up' - 'key_down' - 'key_hold' - device_name: 'B06B Consumer Contro…

[staxza]

I was able to eventually setup esp32 with IR receiver and transmitter and then eventually added the bluetooth keyboard. It works great thanks a lot.
Then when I tried to add a bluetooth remote things went south. The esp would not connect. I was trying to add the ble tracker but the esp would not connect. If I took the code out for the ble tracker the esp32 connects again. It seems I would need another esp32 to setup ble tracker and then bluetooth proxy since it uses the esp-idf framework.