Best IR Blaster for Smartthings and Kinetic (ZGP) Switch

As far as the IR devices, a few random thoughts:

  1. SwitchBot hubs do IR Learning pretty well, but the smartthings integration is limited to either on/off, or to activating scenes that you set up in SwitchBot. So it’s probably not what you were imagining.

  2. there is a community created integration with Wi-Fi devices that have been flashed with the Tasmota software and includes a bunch of different IR blasters, so you could look into that.

  1. there’s quite a good community built integration with the old harmony hub, so if you could find one of those, that might be another option:
  1. remotec does make some zwave IR blasters which used to work pretty well with smartthings under the old pre-2023 architecture, but I’m not sure if anyone has created an edge Driver for those yet. :thinking:

  2. as @Paul_Oliver noted above (we crossposted ) , some tuya WiFi IR blasters are included in the official Tuya/smart things “linked services” integration, but with only a limited set of features. But the good news is they won’t require a tuya hub or a smartthings/Aeotec hub, and they don’t require custom code.