Home Assistant’s infrared library adds command formats for a much wider range of household equipment. The work covers air-conditioner families from manufacturers including Mitsubishi, Hitachi, Toshiba, Midea and Panasonic, alongside television and audio formats, Dyson fans and Hob2Hood extractors.
The library can read more captured remote signals and preserve appliance-specific settings such as fan levels, presets and vane positions when constructing a command. It also handles some air-conditioner messages that a receiver splits into several captures.
Integrations still need to select the correct remote layout and translate its settings, and most devices need hardware validation. Paulus Schoutsen’s implementations are checked against reference signals and recorded packets; the library work does not itself add every listed appliance to Home Assistant.