I Bought a $7 Zigbee IR Blaster

This video looks at the Tuya ZS06 Smart IR Blaster, a much cheaper Zigbee-based alternative to the popular Broadlink smart devices. I show you how to use this little black box to bring traditionally “dumb” devices into your smart home setup, particularly using Home Assistant.

CHAPTERS

0:00 Intro
0:31 - What is this device?
1:21 - Where can you buy it?
2:51 - Do you need a hub?
4:23 - Zigbee integration
5:25 - Adding it to Home Assistant
6:15 - Learning the IR codes
8:10 - Adding the IR codes
10:04 - Adding to Home Assistant dashboard
10:40 - Using in automations
11:06- Wrapping up

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LINKS

ZS06 on AliExpress: https://www.aliexpress.us/item/325680...

Switching to Zigbee2MQQT:    • Install Zigbee2MQTT THE RIGHT WAY in ...  

Custom quirk for ZHA: https://github.com/zigpy/zha-device-h...

COPY/PASTES

zigbee2mqtt/IR Blaster/set

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