I’ve recently got an IR Blaster which will accept a Base64 code over MQTT to be sent. It works in isolation, and now I need to work out how to integrate this with OpenHAB. I want to achieve a couple of things: Remote control style buttons on the UI (sitemap mainly), which may spill over multiple…

If I were to implement something like this, I would move the base64 as close to the device as possible. To achieve that I would probably create a Switch Item for each button that can be pressed and link each to separate Items. Another approach might be to use a single String Item/text Channel but u…