Home Assistant

Home assistant

Home assistant is an open source and free home control system running on more platforms. The nice looking user interface can remote control devices using PIIR.

To activate PIIR transmission from Home Assistant you need to have a UI-component that trigger PIIR, e.g. by a Home Assistant configuration for a MQTT enabled Climate UI-component:

climate:
  - platform: mqtt
    name: "HVAC"
    min_temp: 8
    max_temp: 30
    modes:
      - auto
      - heat
      - cool
      - fan_only
      - "off"
    swing_modes:
      - auto
      - horisontal
      - vertical
      - off
    fan_modes:
      - auto
      - powerful
      - quiet
      - very high
      - high
      - medium
      - low
      - very low
    power_command_topic: "hvac/power/set"
    mode_command_topic: "hvac/mode/set"
    temperature_command_topic: "hvac/temperature/set"
    fan_mode_command_topic: "hvac/fan/set"
    swing_mode_command_topic: "hvac/swing/set"
    precision: 1.0

Such a configuration will generate an UI-component like this within Home Assistant:

When climate component state changes then PIIR needs to be activated by a Home Assistant configuration like this:

automation:
  - alias: run_set_ac
    trigger:
      platform: state
      entity_id: climate.HVAC
    action:
      service: shell_command.send_ac_state

shell_command:
  send_ac_state: "sudo piir --remote hvac_panasonic --feature temperature={{ state_attr('climate.HVAC', 'temperature') }} --feature mode={{ 'HEAT' if is_state('climate.HVAC','heat') else 'COOL' if is_state('climate.HVAC', 'cool') else 'FAN' if is_state('climate.HVAC', 'fan_only') else 'AUTO' if is_state('climate.HVAC', 'auto') else 'OFF' }} --feature option={{ 'QUIET' if is_state_attr('climate.HVAC', 'fan_modes', 'quiet') else 'POWERFUL' if is_state_attr('climate.HVAC', 'fan_modes', 'powerful') else 'AUTO' }} --feature fan={{ 'AUTO' 'POWERFUL' if is_state_attr('climate.HVAC', 'fan_modes', 'powerful') else 'QUIET' if is_state_attr('climate.HVAC', 'fan_modes', 'quiet') else 'VERYFAST' if is_state_attr('climate.HVAC', 'fan_modes', 'very fast') else 'FAST' if is_state_attr('climate.HVAC', 'fan_modes', 'fast') else 'MEDIUM' if is_state_attr('climate.HVAC', 'fan_modes', 'medium') else 'SLOW' if is_state_attr('climate.HVAC', 'fan_modes', 'slow') else 'VERYSLOW' if is_state_attr('climate.HVAC', 'fan_modes', 'very slow') else 'AUTO' }} --feature updown={{ 'AUTO' if is_state_attr('climate.HVAC', 'swing_modes', 'auto') else 'AUTO' if is_state_attr('climate.HVAC', 'swing_modes', 'vertical') else 'HIGH' }} --feature leftright={{ 'AUTO' if is_state_attr('climate.HVAC', 'swing_modes', 'auto') else 'AUTO' if is_state_attr('climate.HVAC', 'swing_modes', 'horisontial') else 'MIDDLE' }}"

Now PIIR will be called to send a IR command each time climate component state changes within Home Assistant.