Easy IR Control

[denominator (James Bowler)]

The simple answer is there is no “easy” way that is plug and play.

I have done IR stuff with TASMOTA and Broadlink. Go the Broadlink

Broadlink/Bestcon RM4C Mini via MQTT

It’s taken me some time to get this all working, so I hope this is useful for someone else! The situation The room has one of these fan/light combos on the ceiling. The whole fixture can be controlled via the included infra-red (IR) remote, which looks like this: [image] To enable automation of the fan/light I got a Broadlink RM4C Mini (branded as BestCon).

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MQTT broker - I use <a href="https://mosquitto.org/">Mosquitto </a>, setup as per its…

For ceiling fans I have https://sonoff.tech/uncategorized/ifan03/