Tag: hdmi-cec
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The TV Remote I Needed Was an Air Mouse
Updated:The Home Assistant pages replaced my Harmony, but not the feel of a hardware remote. I searched for a TV remote and found Zigbee buttons, ESP32 touchscreens and e-ink. What worked was a 2.4GHz air mouse that Home Assistant sees as a keyboard. Here is the search, the wrinkles, and why the TV's own on-screen toasts made it usable.
Replacing My Harmony Remote: HDMI-CEC, Home Assistant and Claude Code
A Logitech Harmony only knows what it last told each device to do, never what's actually happening. Over two days, Claude Code and I built something that listens to the HDMI-CEC bus and each device's own API instead, then wrapped it in a phone remote in Home Assistant, with no IR at all. Here is what we built, why, and every wrong turn on the way.