MetalOnes
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3 months ago Hope you don't mind me just commenting the code here, I've never done a PR before 😆
I have the IR blaster working on mine. There's 2 caveats: 1) The IR receiver needs to be switched on for the blaster to work. 2) The blaster is very weak. Its reach is maybe 5ft.
First I added a switch for the IR Receiver. I reckon it should be set to ALWAYS_ON, but likely there's a better way of doing this.
switch:
- platform: gpio
id: enable_ir_rx
name: IR Receiver
pin:
number: GPIO44
inverted: true
restore_mode: ALWAYS_ONAdd this as well. If you don't need to see the received IR codes in the logs, you can remove the dump: all line for the receiver.
remote_receiver:
id: ir_rx
pin:
number: 38
inverted: true
dump: all # Comment out or remove this line if you don't need to see received codes in the logs. Leaving it on results in a lot of log spam.
rmt_channel: 4
remote_transmitter:
id: ir_tx
pin:
number: 39
inverted: false
carrier_duty_percent: 50%
rmt_channel: 0My use case for this was toggling a fan and TV that's close to my desk (where the Box S3 sits). I didn't incorporate learning or anything, just created buttons that send the commands.
button:
- platform: template
name: TV Power
icon: "mdi:television"
id: tv_power
on_press:
then:
- remote_transmitter.transmit_samsung:
transmitter_id: ir_tx
data: 0xE0E040BF
- platform: template
id: fan_power_btn
name: Fan Power Button
icon: "mdi:fan"
on_press:
then:
- remote_transmitter.transmit_raw:
carrier_frequency: 38kHz
code: [Very long sequence code was here]To get the codes, start viewing the logs in ESPHome, then just point your remote at the receiver and hit the button you'd like the code for. More examples here
It does all work, however the blaster is so weak it's practically useless. I'm not sure if there's a way to increase it's power?
BigBobbas
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Here is a list of things I want to add or change - but haven't had time to complete. Some may not be possible ... but can't hurt to try. This is my 'to do' list. Please feel free to comment or even take on a task and contribute ;) Without the input of you guys this would be a very boring project. If you would like to contribute at all , please use the dev branch and make a PR with any proposed changes. The 2 files to look at are the sensor version no sensor version
These are in no particular order of priority, just straight out of my head.
create a package with core config - giving users less YAML to have to scroll through to make their own tweaks and customisations. also use more substitutions etc. use subs for adding entities. look into using ota updates to just update changes - recently added to ESPHome but haven't had the time to investigate how it all works
Create a web installer for non-sensor version
Create a DND option to turn off screen and mute mic / speakers - preferably with a time from - until selection from the device
Add visuals for additional timers and also naming of timers
Add user configurable 'time out' duration for screen saver and brightness to dim toto be releasedadd colour selector for backgrounds - would need to be a set number of colours but would like to do this from the device.
Pull in calendar events from HA as visual notifications.
change interval method for screen brightness... don't like having to run it continually every 1 secadded condition to check current stateremove unnecessary entities in HA for the device.entities tidied and re-vamped - TBRUpdate guides and add an operation guide.
add additional sounds with option to select for wakeword
add IR blaster config
fix mute!!! STILL 🙃re-written and now working~~ TBRadd STT and TTS text sensor. https://github.com/BigBobbas/ESP32-S3-Box3-Custom-ESPHome/issues/50✅Add switch to change audio from internal speaker to external media player. as per feature requestimplemented and TBRadd continued conversation as per this request
add switch for continued conversation as per request from Sir_Hartley on discord here