Integration with Unified Remote Server

[jared-a-lloyd]

I am little confused as to the correct way to set up the integration with urserver. I have setup the hacs plugin for urserver as in this documentation up to the point of creating/editing remote.yaml.

Based on the code here and here, it looks like the card just needs the name of the server, and the actual remotes it is accessing are auto-filled. Is this correct?

Essentially I am asking in HA do I need to add remotes in remotes.yaml, if I have added unified_remote to configuration.yaml?

For reference here is the card I am trying out :

type: custom:android-tv-card
platform: Unified Remote
custom_actions: []
rows:
  - touchpad
  - keyboard
remote_id: HomeServer
keyboard_id: HomeServer

And this is the relevant HA configuration.yaml section:

unified_remote:
  hosts:
    - host: <ip-address>
    - port: <port>
    - name: HomeServer
  retry_delay: 60

[Nerwyn]

You do not have to add anything to remotes.yaml. That is only if you want to add your own Unified Remote shortcuts and is not used / ignored by this card.

Your configuration.yaml and remote card configurations look correct. Are they not working? Have you tried calling some Unified Remote commands with the actions developer tool? This file has all of the Unified Remote default keys used by the remote card.

[jared-a-lloyd]

Thanks for the quick feedback.

I tried the actions and was only able to get them to work with partial success. But then I switched over to using the raw IP address instead of the name as the identifier instead of "HomeServer" and suddenly everything works.

[Nerwyn]

That's weird and sounds like an issue with the integration. Have you tried restarting?

[jared-a-lloyd]

Yes. I tried reloading yaml, restarting HA, and rebuilding the container. The only thing that seemed to make a difference was directly supplying IP.

But now that I have, your card is working great. So thanks!