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Remote	Instructions on how to setup your remotes with Home Assistant.	0.34

Keeps track which remotes are in your environment, their state and allows you to control them.

• Maintains a state per remote and a combined state all_remotes.
• Registers services remote/turn_on, remote/turn_off, remote/toggle, and remote/send_command to control remotes.

Use the services

Go to the Developer Tools, then to Call Service in the frontend, and choose remote/turn_on, remote/turn_off, or remote/toggle from the list of available services (Available services: on the left). Enter something like the sample below into the Service Data field and hit Call Service.

{"entity_id":"remote.family_room"}

Service data attribute	Optional	Description
entity_id	yes	Only act on a specific remote, else target all.

See the platform documentation for each type of remote for more detailed examples.