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Keeps track which remotes are in your environment, their state and allows you to control them.

• Maintains a state per remote and a combined state all_remotes.
• Registers services remote/turn_on, remote/turn_off,remote/sync, and remote/send_command to control remotes.

{% linkable_title Use the services %}

Go the the Developer Tools, then to Call Service in the frontend, and choose remote/turn_on or remote/turn_off from the list of available services (Available services: on the left). Enter something like the sample below into the Service Data field and hit Call Service.

{"entity_id":"remote.family_room"}

Service data attribute	Optional	Description
entity_id	yes	Only act on specific remote. Else targets all.