New all-in-one universal infrared remote platform integration with support for standard LIRC (Linux Infrared Remote Control) config files via the infrared building-block integration?

[Hedda]

Integration name

Infrared

Link to integration documentation on our website

https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/infrared/

Describe the enhancement

As an alternative to starting from scratch and creating seperate integration for each and every infrared device, could it be a good idea to also create a new all-in-one universal infrared remote platform integration what is based around standard LIRC (Linux Infrared Remote Control) config files and including their whole LIRC remotes database by default, thenthen have a picker in the UI that let users simply pick manufacturer or brand and model of remote control?

• https://www.lirc.org/

The already established LIRC (Linux Infrared Remote Control) project have a database with standardized structured config files for about 2500+ IR remote control devices in their remotes database with protocol-aware decoding and encoding that it meant to work with generic lirc drivers:

• http://lirc-remotes.sourceforge.net/remotes-table.html

Thier existing documentation does however not look great:

• https://www.lirc.org/html/index.html

Use cases

From the end-user point-of-view you would just configure a new device via this universal infrared remote integration, and under it you pick a manufacturer, pick a model, and the integration loads a LIRC config file of known codes for that remote control model.

Anything else?

Even if no one want an all-in-one universal infrared remote platform integration, the LIRC config file database could maybe still be a good source for codes to well-known remotes when building out the infrared-protocols project (with Python Infrared Protocols for Home Assistant)?

• https://github.com/home-assistant-libs/infrared-protocols/

SmartIR custom integration (and its forks like AR Smart IR) uses a similar apprach but does not specifically use standard LIRC config files:

• https://github.com/smartHomeHub/SmartIR

  • https://community.home-assistant.io/t/smartir-control-your-climate-tv-and-fan-devices-via-ir-rf-controllers/100798

• https://github.com/marsh4200/ar_smart_ir

  • https://community.home-assistant.io/t/ar-smart-ir-modern-ir-control-for-home-assistant-no-yaml-required/994042

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🏷️ I've automatically added the integration: infrared label to help categorize this feature request.

[bwarden]

This is also an extensive database of IR codes, although it's stored as device/command values that need to be translated via their respective protocols, vs. hex, pronto, or timing formats. But they could directly feed the protocols supported by esphome.

https://github.com/probonopd/irdb