Silent remote controls card for home assistant

• TV remote control
• AC remote control

The card was tested with Broadlink, but should work for any other device/service.

Feel free to request features / changes / issues report.

Demo

HACS Installation (Preferred option with updates)

HACS manual Installation

• In the HACS Frontend, click the 3 dots in the upper right
• Click 'Add Custom Repository'
• Fill in the repo url https://github.com/silentbil/silent-remotes-card and choose 'Lovelace' category.
• Install the custom card (should now appear in the Frontend)
• HACS should automatically add the following to your resources:

url: /hacsfiles/silent-remotes-card/silent-remotes-card.js
type: Javascript Module

Adding the Card to the Dashboard

Add a Manual card to the dashboard and enter the YAML to configure it as desired.

Options

Name	Description	Default	Required	Values
iconSize	Size of the buttons	25	No	number
remote	remote control name	None	Yes	string
commandsFilePath	path of the file with the commands	None	Yes	/folder/file-name.json
theme	Theme of style	light	No	light or dark
title	Title of the remote	None	No	string
remoteType	Type of remote control	None	Yes	tv or ac
callServiceProps	Service to call	None	Yes	Object with: domain and service
entity	Climate entity id	None	No	string

entity mode (NEW)

You can now simply use a climate entity (using smartIR) and skip the next steps of using external command file.
example:

type: custom:silent-remotes-card
theme: light
title: Electra
remoteType: ac
entity: climate.salon_ac

Command file structure

• The command file look like smartIr structure, meaning you can download the relevant commands from their device list and use as is.
• If not using smartIr, the file structre still need to fit the following

TV example file with custom buttons
TV command file example from smartIR
AC command file example from smartIR

Check out smartIR and find your device commands.

Add a command file:

create a json file somewhere inside your www folder. for example: www/my-remotes(create this folder)/tv.json, and paste the commands from the correct file from smartIR, or manually fill the commands yourself.
after that, in the card configuration use: commandsFilePath: /local/my-remotes/tv.json , note that www folder is equal to local
do not create the json file where this card is installed, because after updates it will be deleted

Examples

example1: AC remote

type: custom:silent-remotes-card
remote: remote.broadlink_remote
commandsFilePath: /local/my-remotes/1945.json
theme: light
title: Electra
remoteType: ac
callServiceProps:
  domain: remote
  service: send_command

In this example, AC remote control will be created. Remote device name is: remote.broadlink_remote and the service to send the command is: "remote.send_command". the file with the commands is taken from 1945.json found in the folder.

example2: TV remote

type: custom:silent-remotes-card
remote: remote.broadlink_remote
commandsFilePath: /local/my-remotes/1061.json
theme: dark
title: my samsung tv
remoteType: tv
iconSize: 25
callServiceProps:
  domain: remote
  service: send_command