home-assistant.io/source/_integrations/remote.markdown

title, description, ha_release, ha_domain, ha_category, ha_quality_scale, ha_codeowners, ha_integration_type

title	description	ha_release	ha_domain	ha_category	ha_quality_scale	ha_codeowners	ha_integration_type
Remote	Instructions on how to setup your remotes with Home Assistant.	0.34	remote	Remote	internal	@home-assistant/core	entity

The Remote {% term integration%} manages the state of the remote entities and allows you to control them.

• Maintains a state per remote and a combined state all_remotes.
• Registers actions remote.turn_on, remote.turn_off, remote.toggle, and remote.send_command to control remotes.

{% include integrations/building_block_integration.md %}

The state of a remote entity

The state of a remote entity can be either On or Off.

In addition, the entity can have the following states:

• Unavailable: The entity is currently unavailable.
• Unknown: The state is not yet known.

Use the actions

Go to the Developer Tools and open the Actions tab. From the Actions dropdown, choose remote.turn_on, remote.turn_off, or remote.toggle. Under target, select the target device. If you are in YAML mode, enter something like the sample below into the Data field. Once you are done, select Perform action.

{"entity_id":"remote.family_room"}

Data attribute	Optional	Description
entity_id	yes	Only act on a specific remote, else target all.

See the platform documentation for each type of remote for more detailed examples.