My seemingly never ending quest for a universal AV remote

[Sebastien]

You can assign commands to any of the keys, so as an example, you could set the « Red » button to 1, the « Green » to 2, etc. Or you could change the password to 1 1 1 1, and then just use the same button that you programmed to be « 1 ».

[ogiewon]

@Sebastien

You can assign commands to any of the keys, so as an example, you could set the « Red » button to 1

Interesting... Can you assign a sequence of numbers to a button on the remote? Like "1 2 3 4" instead of just "1"?

[marktheknife]

Yup!

If you edit an activity in the SofaBaton app, and then tap the “assign commands for remote keys” button, you should be able to create a “macro key” assignment, which will allow you to build out a series of commands.

[johnwill1]

@Sebastien

You can assign commands to any of the keys, so as an example, you could set the « Red » button to 1, the « Green » to 2, etc.

@marktheknife

If you edit an activity in the SofaBaton app, and then tap the “assign commands for remote keys” button, you should be able to create a “macro key” assignment, which will allow you to build out a series of commands

Cool Thanks all

It's only the PIN entry that's used quite frequently for me so either using a macro or assigning a single button/using a 1,1,1,1 PIN would both work well. On the rare occasion I need to use numbers, original remotes are never far away. Come to think of it , I've become accustomed to using the Virgin TV360 remote, as the voice commands for channel, show, actor, skip forward/backward are extremely convenient and reliable. It's likely we'll still be using two remotes.

[ts1234]

Ya, sorry for wasting your time on my confusion. While I'm not the brightest bulb in the box, I can easily see others making the jump to think it was more like a Harmony Hub app.

At some point, I'll probably come back and implement it to signal back to Hubitat. I just don't have those cycles right now.

[rcjordan]

TLDR; ESP32

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