Remote
The Remote integrationIntegrations connect and integrate Home Assistant with your devices, services, and more. [Learn more] manages the state of the remote entities and allows you to control them.
- Maintains a state per remote and a combined state
all_remotes. - Registers actions
remote.turn_on,remote.turn_off,remote.toggle, andremote.send_commandto control remotes.
Building block integration
This remote is a building block integration that cannot be added to your Home Assistant directly but is used and provided by other integrations.
A building block integration differs from the typical integration that connects to a device or service. Instead, other integrations that do integrate a device or service into Home Assistant use this remote building block to provide entities, services, and other functionality that you can use in your automations or dashboards.
If one of your integrations features this building block, this page documents the functionality the remote building block offers.
The state of a remote entity
The state of a remote entity can be either On or Off.
In addition, the entity can have the following states:
- Unavailable: The entity is currently unavailable.
- Unknown: The state is not yet known.
Use the actions
Go to the Developer Tools and open the Actions tab. From the Actions dropdown, choose remote.turn_on, remote.turn_off, or remote.toggle. Under target, select the target device. If you are in YAML mode, enter something like the sample below into the Data field. Once you are done, select Perform action.
{"entity_id":"remote.family_room"}
| 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.