Event Triggers Unveiled: Control the Home Assistant Media Player with Your Remote Control!

In this video, we delve into the world of event triggers with Home Assistant, exploring how you can use them to create powerful remote control automation for your smart home devices. Whether you're a beginner looking to enhance your home automation setup or an experienced user wanting to take your system to the next level, this tutorial is for you. Learn how to set up event triggers, customize them to suit your specific needs, and master the art of automating tasks with ease. Join us on this journey towards a more efficient and connected home with Home Assistant. Stay tuned for more tips, tricks, and tutorials on maximizing the potential of your smart home setup. Don't forget to like, comment, and subscribe for more content on all things home automation!

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00:00:00 Introduction
00:00:38 How Events work in Home Assistant
00:01:25 Identifying Events
00:03:25 Installing Emulated Roku in Home Assistant
00:04:30 Developing the automation to control Home Assistant with a remote control

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[SmartHomeJunkie]

See the description of this video for links to the Blueprint and more info! Let me know what you think about using events.

[NoahM.Angell-sdez]

This channel gets better and better day by day

[chrisdixon]

Very nice tutorial not only for the remote control use case, but also using events in HA in general... Rock on!

[gnospanker]

Very cool! Thanks for informing me about the Roku Emulator and how I could use it.

[WoottonRivers]

Another good video! I've used events once or twice. Fortunately, it's rare you need to use them. For anyone new to Home Assistant, don't worry about this.

[Zignito]

Great information. May be you can a video where you can utilise old phones as smart display per room. Ie kitchen, living room can just have a old smart phone attached to a wall and only shows devices in that particular room. Now a day can buy cheap second hand phone and tablets. Also lots of people have old phones which are good enough as display.

[FibonacciK]

Another thing that is helpful is you can enter an asterisk for what to subscribe to. This will subscribe to everything.

[huube]

Very very Nice!
Thank a lot, this is what I was looking for😊

[nottabandaid]

i would love to see how to make an automation so that when my iphome connects to the network my porch light comes on i have been searching all over and experimenting to see if i could get this to happen

[shahidmahmood]

This is a great tutorial, thank you. PROBLEM: I have the Harmony Elite remote and Roku has to be included in a running Activity to work with hassio. However, Harmony requires TV as part of this activity also and so I included Roku as a device in my Apple TV activity but then remote controls don’t work with Apple TV. How to use the harmony remote buttons to work with roku emu (hassio) in any harmony activity. Or better without any Activity

[rhosk]

Are your remote examples RF, BT or IR?

[DanUpshaw]

This is brilliant! Having bought into Harmony for many years, it is great to see another great way to integrate it into HA! Thank you!
Do you know if there is a way to set up multiple emulated Roku's so that we can use one harmony remote to control multiple other things in HA?
Thanks again for this!

[julianm]

Zou het een leuk onderwerp zijn om een keer een video te maken over het splitsen van .yaml-files, zoals templates.yaml? Die worden bij mij wel heel erg groot, en zou deze graag willen splitsen over meerdere files.

[NOosterwijk]

Mooi uitgelegd! Ik heb echter een issue hiermee. Ik heb de HUE dimmer (type 1) in de HUE integratie en de events vang ik dan af voor de 4 buttons. Bij een restart van HA worden de events spontaan getriggerd op alle buttons, resultaat het licht gaat aan bij een HA restart. Hoe ondervang ik dat? is dan short_release op alle 4 de buttons)

[rolandrohde]

This is all very amazing, but I am currently flummoxed by the basics...
I have an Ikea remo switch and want to use it to play a certain web radio station and to stop that playback again when I press a different button.
I managed to get tht far with some difficulty (need to do a service call for stop, but a "media player" action to startfor some reason) but it stops working after a few hours. No clue why. Also...I have Music Assistant installed, but for ome reason can't acess that through automations...🤔

[koenkv]

its a pitty that Logitech stopped developing the harmony devices

[vinniev]

Is there a way to play spotify to all my speakers in house at the same time?

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