LinknLink eRemote HA Universele Slimme Wi-Fi IR-afstandsbediening, Infraroodblaster voor TV, Airco, Settopbox, IR2MQTT Home Assistant, Compatibel met Alexa en Google Home

Waardeloze service; eerste levering krijg ik een volledig ander artikel toegestuurd. Na veel moeite om het pakketje terug te sturen, kreeg ik de het na de tweede keer bestellen EXACT het zelfde verkeerde artikel…. Als dit niet normaal opgelost kan worden zal ik iedereen afraden om gebruik te maken van amazon…

Did not work on any of my 3 A/C units. Was no ise to me.

I ordered the tv pro kit. It only came with a remote but no smart hub. Cannot use.UPDATE (Sep 2024): After writing in to the Linknlink website, I initially received reply saying what I ordered did not come with the eRemote Hub which was incorrect. I was pleasantly surprised to receive the hub after that. Thanks to the seller for correcting this error. Changed rating to 5 stars.

Ho acquistato questo prodotto più per provarlo che altro in quanto non ero convinto che avrebbe fatto al caso mio invece devo ricredermi...il miei due clima Samsung dotati di wifi integrato hanno smesso di essere collegati con App e wifi quindi non potevo più comandarli col cell fuori casa per trovare poi al mio ritorno la casa fresca, con questo ho risolto!!infatti ne ho subito preso un altro perché fa veramente quello che dice..io sui clima Samsung nessun problema di configurazione...veloce e intuitiva, poi bella la modalità test per verificare prima di memorizzare tutto se funziona a dovere..Consigliato .

This LinknLink Wifi based universal remote is a solid little device used to enable automation or wifi-remote capabilities for IR in a single room. The device plugs in to any standard USB port for power, and with the app (via store or side-load) enables the owner to emulate most device IR remotes via an app on the phone. With added firmware (in beta, from the developer website) one can set this device up to use MQTT and connect to Home Assistant, or any MQTT based system, to enable output automation.For HA: I will note that the process for enabling HA/MQTT this is not exactly straight forward. One first needs to go to the manufacturers site to download the firmware used to enable MQTT functionality. It's not shipped with this functionality out of box. You want to do this as step 1, as anything learned prior to that is lost during the flashing process. There is also a limitation that the device will only handle locally emulating about 8 remotes. The software says "one of each type: TV, DVD, VCR, Fan/AC, etc", but in reality, you can manually program and rename any of the devices, so it's not quite that limited.The programing model database they have available is slightly problematic. The app lists several manufacturers and often has 2 or 3 generic versions for remotes of the given manufacturer and device type. But getting to them and testing them is not intuitive until you've done it once or twice. Testing them one at a time can lead to picking the wrong one, or none actually working, at which point it drops into the standard "learning mode" for the category. Sometimes you want to do that though, as jumping directly to self-learn doesn't always enable all the keys a remote for the device of that type should have. (eg. For a TV remote, it may not expose play/pause, even for a smart TV. Where if you choose a smart TV and "test" a version of it, it them presents them for learning.) This is an app limitation, which I hope they correct in the future by allowing users to choose the device style/button layout for the remote being learned.The training mode is rather simple. The app places the puck in training mode, and presents a remote with greyed buttons. You then press the button in the app, and when prompted press the button on the remote while aimed at the puck. It will then give you a button in the app to press to test playback to verify the code works with the given device. Once learned, the button on the virtual remote is enabled, and a sub-device button is created in the MQTT configuration output. Unfortunately there does not appear to be a way to initiate training mode from HA at this point. Something I hope they also consider.For the HA backend: Each remote shows up as a scene switch, with multiple sub-device buttons. Pressing said button initiates an MQTT request to the device to initiate the pulse. HA sees this as an output only device, and there is no way to watch for input IR that I can see. For this to work properly, the device must remain plugged in, connected via wifi to the MQTT server, and be close enough that the IR burst is visible to the device(s) in question (about 4m). The device does NOT need to have full internet access, so a localized IOT LAN is fine. The app used to program the IR device prefers to have internet access when setting up the device, but after a timeout delay it does allow program mode without it. The manufacturer has various versions of firmware to download for their devices, and copies of the apps in APK format for android to enable side-load if desired. This is great, since it means you can archive these items for local use, making the item not rendered useless in the event the manufacturers servers go away.

Works as advertised, I set this up to provide control of an older tv and stereo in Home Assistant using MQTT so i would not need to rely on the cloud.