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Xiaomi Mi and Aqara Air Conditioning Companion integration for Home Assistant
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Need help to use IR command sending function with home assistant as an entity/device #119

Closed LiangZugeng closed 3 years ago

LiangZugeng commented 3 years ago

First of all, this component is amazing, thank you for creating it.

I'm quite new to Home Assistant, actually I just started playing it since yesterday.

The IR command learning and sending functions worked great, I tested it in Services in Developer Tools and it worked well, my scenario is to turn on/off a light which can be controlled by a IR remote, when I invoked the IR sending function with proper IR command in Developer Tools, the light turned on or off as expected.

As a new comer, the problem for me is how I can configure an entity or device in configuration.yaml file so I can have a "virtual" device (the light) on the dashboard with an on/off switch, thus when I manipulate the switch the on/off IR commands can be sent. BTW, I am intended to control it in HomeKit so I guess it needs to be a device or entity in HA (correct me if I'm wrong).

I understand I'm asking a home assistant related question here which may not be the concern of this component, but it will be much appreciated if I can get some hints or samples to achieve the goal as this represents a common use scenario for this component. Thank you very much in advance.

BTW, I have already added a AC device in configuration.yaml to control the AC and it works well.

climate living_room_ac:
  - platform: xiaomi_miio_airconditioningcompanion
    name: Living Room Air Conditioner
    host: 192.168.32.198
    token: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
    target_sensor: sensor.temperature_158d0001f53706
    scan_interval: 60
itispip commented 3 years ago

UI (control card) can be created through HA's own feature

But agree this component should add something to record down the "learnt command" somewhere...

LiangZugeng commented 3 years ago

Thank you @itispip

I figured that out and finished setting it up correctly in both HA and HomeKit, it turns out the HomeKit Hub I added to HA filtered all script entities out, after changed the filter settings the script entities I added for sending IR commands showed in HomeKit as a switch.

I have been using this for several days with some minor random issues though but those are separate topics, this issue can be closed.