With Home Assistant announcing that infrared is now "becoming a first-class citizen", this guide may become defunct quickly. I personally wouldn't mind that because this required more setup than I would've liked. I've been doing home automation stuff since at least 2012, cutting my teeth with X10 devices. Home automation has come a long way since then, and I've been happily using a Home Assistant Yellow (RIP) since around September 2024. The Yellow supports Zigbee and Bluetooth out-of-the-box, and I was able to easily install a GPIO module to support Z-Wave devices as well. With networking being a prerequisite to access the device—and thus WiFi devices being supported—I'm able to support a fairly large ecosystem.1 One technology standard that's been missing, though, is infrared. With the purchase of a Tuya Zigbee IR Remote, I've now solved this. But since I wanted to do this within ZHA2, it took me more than a few minutes to set everything up. There are plenty of great guides for…
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