Broadlink Support

[Zoltan_Kiss]

Broadlink devices can be reached in Fibaro system. There is a quickApp that recignoizes all the Broaldink hubs in your network, and you can create a QuickApp that will send commands to Broadlink.
That QuickApp has a possibility to learn actual IR/RF commands and upon a button press you can send a command to broadlink to send that re-learnt IR/RF code. It works for me with many devices. I have all of them in HR as well, since they are devices of Fibaro already.
All of them i can use in scenes, or wherever i just want. Working rellay well.
All the devices also stayes in the original Broadlink hub, so there’s nothing to change. All of them are reachable by Google Assistant, or Siri or Alexa if you want.

[KalleVC (Kalle)]

Hi folks,
when I read along here, my heart bleeds for not having paid much attention to advertising our IR/RF transmitter. It works similarly to the GlobalCache devices, but supports many more IR formats and also RF433/315 MHz. The firmware has an open API interface to which HTTP requests can be sent.
Example IR Command for LG TV to toggle ON/OFF:
http://device_IP/sendIR?/n=1&p=NEC&code=0x8E740B
The GlobalCache codes can also be sent, just omit the initial code “senddir,1:1,40000,1,1,” and you have the RAW code.
This is then sent with http://device_IP/sendIR?n=1&l=2&f=38&code={GlobalCache RawCode}
I would be happy if someone can use such a device (I would provide the boards at cost price or the board layout and the firmware for free), can contact me here. The device works locally in the WiFi network (2.4GHz)
The documentation for the device can be found here in GoogleDocs:

Beam Documentation

Pictures and further information can be found here: BEAM documentation / news

I would like to clarify again - this device is not for sale, it is only to be made available to the THR community.

Kalle

[Abdelrahman_Ali]

@bill

There was a major detail that I missed during my initial research. For me to connect & authenticate with these devices, they’d have to be removed from your BroadLink account. That means that not only would you no longer be able to control them with the official BroadLink app, but you wouldn’t be able to control them with Alexa or Google Assistant either.

Do we need to choose between using this library or the official app exclusively? · Issue #377 · mjg59/python-broadlink · GitHub

In light of this new discovery, I think I’m going to postpone the direct integration. I feel there won’t be enough individuals that’d be willing to go through all these hurdles & lose voice support in the process.

Instead, I’m going to propose some indirect solutions:

1. I’ll add the ability to have Alexa send any voice command as text. Currently the Home Remote’s Alexa integration is all voice based & is done using the microphone. I’ll add support that’ll let you send Broadlink commands with text so you can link them to Buttons on any custom page.

2. I’ll add support for Home Assistant. As @deathwh1sper mentioned earlier, Home Assistant already supports BroadLink so we can control it through their integration. Yes, with HA you’ll also have to unpair your BroadLink devices from the official BroadLink apps, but HA has their own skills for Alexa & Google Assistant so you won’t have to worry about losing voice control.

I’ll work on this now. Not only will these solutions provide a way to control BroadLink from the Home Remote but they’ll be quicker for me to develop. I’m not saying no to a future “direct” BroadLink integration. I’m just saying I’m going to complete these 2 updates 1st.

Hi Bell
The Broadlink app now has a button to unlock the device. This issue no longer exists.