Support for "high level" IR sending interface like Tasmota?

[shirok1]

I'm working on infrared support for Tasmota.

They are using MQTT + JSON as control interface, thus not very good at processing long messages like raw timings (might even overflow buffer). Instead they integrated IRremoteESP8266 to do protocol package construct on the device (raw is still supported though).

JSON for sending IR look like these (grabbed from https://github.com/tasmota/docs/blob/master/docs/Codes-for-IR-Remotes.md):

{"Protocol":"SAMSUNG","Bits":32,"Data":"0xE0E040BF"}
{"Protocol":"NIKAI","Bits":24,"Data":"0xD5F2A","DataLSB":"0xB0FA54","Repeat":0}
{"Protocol":"PANASONIC","Bits":48,"Data":0x100BCBD}
{"Protocol":"SONY","Bits":12,"Data":"0xA50"}
{"Protocol":"NEC","Bits":32,"Data":"0x00FEA857"}
{"Protocol":"PANASONIC","Bits":48,"Data":"0x40040D00BCB1","DataLSB":"0x220B0003D8D","Repeat":0}

To achieve this, I come up with 2 paths:

• Make hatasmota lightweight proxy, do the complex type matching things on the homeassistant repo side, my preferred solution
• Use protocol_name = type(command).__name__-ish thing to do the matching in hatasmota, kind of dirty and I don't want depencency on infrared_protocols in hatasmota, but seems to more align with how currently esphome infrared integration works?

Also some work can be done in infrared_protocols to make such matching smoother and safer, love to hear your opinion.

[abmantis]

I would suggest implementing the new infrared HA platform in hatasmota, like esphome does. That way it becomes a first party IR device in HA (supporting integrations and all that).