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Enable control of IR devices using Home Assistant using a off-the-shelf product with minimal changes.

I have chosen Smart Universal Remote controller IR WiFi Intelligent Home Remote Suitable for Alexa Google Assistant as it was cheap £14.99, and used the TuyaSmart app which meant it’s probably based on esp8266.

This post is post 1, which will cover the product basic teardown.

Teardown

I have just received the product and it looks pretty good, i haven’t powered it up as there have ben reports of problems when using Tuya convert if you allow it to update.

Here are photos of the unit. The unit is screwed together by 4 phillips screws under the foam padding on the bottom.

box_front box_rear inside pcb_front pcb_front_closeup_1 pcb_front_closeup_2 pcb_rear a1_back pcb_rear_closeup_1 pcb_rear_closeup_2

next steps

Work out pin out for J11, so we can program it.