My wife is away this week - so I’ve been doing some experimenting!
I’m really liking these remote controls from IKEA. They talk over Zigbee, so it’s possible to use them in home assistant to control roon - without any extra IKEA infrastructure. You do need a Zigbee gateway in your home assistant of course.
They have 7 buttons -
- play/pause
- next track
- previous track
- volume up
- volume down
- one dot
- two dots
The one dot and two dot I have customised to start my favorite radio station, and to turn off the zone.
Of course there have been some challenges. Home Assistant has some blueprints for IKEA controllers, but not this one - so I’ve hacked one of the others. Plus I needed to upgrade the firmware of the controllers to a newer version (the firmware as supplied didn’t publish events for all the buttons.
Home assistant has at least three Zigbee integrations - which work slightly differently!
So a bit of a challenge to get working - but once working they are good and low cost.
If others are interested let me know and I can share the code / setup.