Remote entity is not exposed for TS1201

[tannisroot]

What happened?

I have a TS1201, a Zigbee IR blaster, and currently, the entities exposed to HASS look like this: The entities are just a switch and an input field for the IR code, which is not what a typical IR blaster exposes in Home Assistant. Personally it's also not very clear what I am supposed to do with them. For example, Broadlink remotes expose a remote entity: with which you can interact using remote.send_command and remote.learn_command service calls. You can also integrate the remoty entity with the SmartIR custom integration, which allows to use a predefined set of instructions for specific IR controlled devices to create climate, media entities, etc. You can't integrate TS1201 with it since it doesn't expose an IR entity.

What did you expect to happen?

I expected that TS1201 provides a remote entity that I can interact with just like with Broadlink remotes. There is capability to learn IR codes and to send them, so there should be a way to hook it all up into a remote entity, right?

How to reproduce it (minimal and precise)

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Zigbee2MQTT version

1.35.1

Adapter firmware version

20230507

Adapter

Sonoff Zigbee Stick

Setup

SONOFF Zigbee 3.0 USB Dongle Plus

Debug log

No response

[sauloonze]

Thanks for the project. I would love to see the TS1201 integrating with the SmartIR.