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HAIR

A full admin interface for infrared device management in Home Assistant.

Built on HA's native infrared platform (2026.4+), HAIR handles capturing, organizing, and controlling IR commands through a single sidebar panel at /hair. No YAML required.

What you get

  • Native receiver support (HA 2026.6+) - Captures IR via the new InfraredReceiverEntity API, hardware-agnostic. Falls back to the legacy ESPHome event-bus bridge automatically on 2026.4-2026.5.
  • HAIR Sniffer - Real-time IR signal monitor with fingerprinting, deduplication, and hit tracking. Find a mystery remote in seconds.
  • HAIR Clipper - Build virtual remotes by pasting Pronto hex codes, with live validation. For commands you have a code for but cannot sniff. The Create Remote dialog can also pick a known manufacturer and model from the device codes in your installed Home Assistant infrared library and pre-fill the buttons for you.
  • HAIR Plucker - Pull IR codes already learned into a vendor blaster into HAIR as native signals, without re-learning each one at a receiver. Works with integrations that can replay a stored code by name through a chosen emitter; Tuya Local is the first. No IR is broadcast during a pluck.
  • HAIR Mirror - A live audit of every IR command your house transmits, heard back or not: which command, through which blaster, and which room heard it. Any send a receiver hears is one Assign away from living in HAIR, and triggers never fire on the house's own sends.
  • Protocol-decoded transmit - When HAIR can read a captured signal as NEC, it sends clean re-encoded timings instead of replaying the captured ones, which fixes replay failures against destinations that expect undistorted timing. A per-command toggle keeps the captured timings when you want them.
  • Pronto editor - View or edit a signal's or command's raw Pronto in one editor, with live validation, protocol recognition, and a one-click snap of an off-standard carrier to the nearest IR standard.
  • Send N times - Give a command a send count so HAIR transmits it more than once per press, for a device that needs the repeat to register.
  • Command rename - Rename a device command inline on its row or in the editor; action mappings pointed at the old name follow it automatically.
  • Signal aliases - Name any signal by clicking its diamond pattern, in both the Sniffer and Clipper.
  • IR triggers - Captured signals become native HA event entities. Any automation can listen for them, and triggers know which receiver and room heard the press, so the same remote can do different things in different rooms.
  • Device Management - Create profiles for TVs, ACs, fans, lights, switches, screens, and more. One-click duplicate to clone a device's commands, mappings, and emitters.
  • Multi-Emitter TX - Broadcast commands to multiple IR emitters. Zone the IR across rooms; sends are staggered per emitter so two blasters never garble each other in the air.
  • Action Mapping - Bind captured IR commands to HA entity features via dropdown selection.
  • Auto Entities - Devices get native HA entities (media_player, climate, fan, light, switch, cover, remote, button).
  • Command Templates - Device-type-aware guided setup with predefined command names.
  • Ten languages - The panel and setup wizard ship in English, Spanish, French, Japanese, German, Polish, Portuguese, Dutch, Italian, and Russian, following your HA profile language automatically. Non-English translations are programming-assistant drafts; native-speaker reviewers are very welcome.
  • UX polish - Drag-to-reorder device cards, remotes, signals, and commands, NATIVE / BRIDGE badges to see migration state at a glance, Sniffer Test with an emitter picker, and a mobile-friendly nav button for phone users.

Requirements

  • Home Assistant 2026.4 or later
  • For capture: HA 2026.6+ with any integration exposing an InfraredReceiverEntity, or HA 2026.4-2026.5 with an ESPHome device running the remote_receiver component and an on_pronto: bridge action.
  • For send: any integration on HA's native infrared platform (ESPHome, Tuya Local, Broadlink, SMLIGHT, and any future adopter).