Create fake device from IR commands | Home Assistant | Page 1

true sail Jan 30, 2025, 4:06 PM

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Is there a way to make a fake device from IR commands? I have scripts with all the IR commands but want to make it a device so I can then hook it up to dashboards and some other stuff a bit easier.

I'm sure its possible but cant seem to find documentation on it.. suspect I am using the wrong terms, could someone point me in the right direction?

median edge Jan 30, 2025, 4:06 PM

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You're really looking for entities, and there's many of those

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What are you thinking of?

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https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations#search/template are some of the options

true sail Jan 30, 2025, 4:07 PM

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I have a fan, so pretty much just want to be able to do on/off, speed up/down, oscillate on/off.

I have all the IR command learned, and in scripts just so I could test them

median edge Jan 30, 2025, 4:07 PM

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So, template fan then

true sail Jan 30, 2025, 4:07 PM

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aaand that link has a fan one.. great, thanks

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will do some reading 🙂 :ty:

true sail Jan 30, 2025, 5:51 PM

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hmm, getting a weird error with this.

Action script.office_fan_power_toggle uses action fan.turn_on which was not found.

If i run script.office_fan_power_toggle in isolation, it works fine. I don't know what fan.turn_on even is, quite odd.

fan:
  - platform: template
    fans:
      office_fan:
        friendly_name: "Office fan"
        value_template: "{{ states('input_boolean.state') }}"
        turn_on:
          action: script.office_fan_power_toggle
        turn_off:
          action: script.office_fan_power_toggle
        set_oscillating:
          service: script.office_fan_power_oscillate_horizontal
          data:
            oscillating: "{{ oscillating }}"
        speed_count: 12

I tried to use service instead of action, but it didn't change anything and I think those terms are interchangeable anyway..

true sail Jan 30, 2025, 7:29 PM

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been trying to find a way around this but cant find anything.. think its just bugged and im screwed. I've raised an issue on github for it. Seems to be related to:
https://discord.com/channels/330944238910963714/1326732165861474336

https://developers.home-assistant.io/blog/2024/07/19/fan-fanentityfeatures-turn-on_off/

gilded berry Jan 30, 2025, 8:09 PM

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can you go to the Developer tools > States tab and on the "Filter entities" field enter script.office_fan_power_toggle ? Can you check the yaml for that script?

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I wonder if you have duplicate scripts (one with the office_fan_power_toggle entity_id and another with that as alias which you shared on the github issue)

true sail Jan 30, 2025, 8:40 PM

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gilded berry can you go to the Developer tools > States tab and on the "Filter entities" fiel...

If i search script.office_fan_power_toggle I get nothing but if i search just: office_fan_power_toggle I get only 1 result:

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Figured these might be useful too

gilded berry Jan 30, 2025, 10:24 PM

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oh, it seems that the entity id used on the template is wrong

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you need to use the one shown in blue there

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so script.officefan_powertoggle (you can just press the copy button next to it, just to be safe)

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can you try using that one on the actions of the fan template?

true sail Jan 30, 2025, 10:40 PM

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@gilded berry Yeah that was it.. the reason for that is I renamed them and I guess that doesnt change their entity id's.. which makes a lot of sense.

thanks for your help on this ill update and close the github

gilded berry Jan 30, 2025, 10:43 PM

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great!

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yeah, the alias does not change the entity_id

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the error message has a bug, though! it was inverted since it should say "Action fan.turn_on uses action script...... which was not found"

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