Unsupported compression method with Home Assistant

dk38 · November 11, 2021, 9:30am

I am using the Home Assistant device to call Broadlink remote actions. Until recently adding the Home Assistant device worked without trouble. Since I changed the IP address of the Home Assistant I deleted the existing entry to recreate a new one and this is failing now with the following message " the archive entry was compressed using an unsupported compression method". Any hint to overcome this issue?
Thanks

bill · November 11, 2021, 2:59pm

I’ve never seen that message before so I’m not really sure what would trigger it. Is this on all platforms: Android, iOS, & Windows?

dk38 · November 11, 2021, 8:17pm

It is in the Home remote Designer, when I try to add a new Device design, selecting Home Assistant. Then the interface asks for the URL, and after giving the URL I get the Home Assistant login screen. So far so good, after entering the credential, I get this error. I believe Home Assistant sends all the integrations in a compressed file that Home Remote is not able to uncompress.
I had several changes recently, I believe Home Assistant did update recently, but I also installed Windows 11. Before being able to run designer I had an error message saying that it required .NET to run, which I installed.

bill · November 11, 2021, 8:26pm

OK. I’m seeing the same thing. The Designer was updated to .NET 5 earlier this week & that must have triggered this. Working on it now.

bill · November 11, 2021, 9:13pm

It’s been fixed. I just finished uploading Designer version 4.4.2.0. Download the update & try again.

dk38 · November 12, 2021, 9:30am

This fixed it! Thanks Bill for your reactivity.

gustavofd · August 15, 2022, 2:58pm

Hi Daniel

Could you teach me how to call broadlink remote actions using home assistant device in HR? The message that I receive is “You need to specify a device". How the DataAction should be configured?

Thanks

bill · August 17, 2022, 3:03am

What’s the Home Remote Device Id for “Remote_BroadRemote”?

In order to send a command, the Id should be the [HA entity Id ]|[HA device id]

So if the entity id = 1 & the device id = a, the Home Remote Id would be 1|a

You may need to copy paste & manually edit those device objects. I don’t know if Home Remote will automatically generate device objects for every Broadlink controlled device. It may only do the main unit.