Hooking up preamp to HA via Broadcom IR in an elegant way | Home Assistant | Page 1

hasty garnet Nov 21, 2025, 10:10 AM

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Hi. I want to "connect" my preamp to Home Assistant using IR. The good thing is that the amp only has unistate (as opposite to toggle) IR commands. The thing is that i want to make it via UI and in an elegant way.
So far i have done template switches for power, mute and other on/off commands. Looks beautiful.
The problem is with multistate switches (for example preamp inputs or surround mode). I was hoping that i can template input select in the same way as i am templating switches in HA, but looking at the UI it is completely different and im not sure how to even start

worldly dagger Nov 21, 2025, 10:18 AM

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Template a list of options, template the state which should be one of the options, then use the proper actions for on select.

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Don’t use device actions as they are currently broken in template entities.

hasty garnet Nov 21, 2025, 3:54 PM

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so i need to create a script for each of the possible values?

worldly dagger Nov 21, 2025, 8:39 PM

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no, you can perform all the logic in the on select actions

hasty garnet Nov 23, 2025, 9:21 PM

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would you be able to share a screenshot of a working template select if you have one?

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i just cant wrap my head around it

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its probably some stupid assumption engraved in my mind

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