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LG Infrared

The LG Infrared integrationIntegrations connect and integrate Home Assistant with your devices, services, and more. [Learn more] lets you control an LG TV using any infrared emitter previously configured in Home Assistant. It can also receive commands from an LG remote when you have an infrared receiver set up, allowing you to use the remote to trigger automations in Home Assistant.

Because the integration communicates over infrared, it operates in a one-way, fire-and-forget fashion: commands are sent to the TV but there is no feedback channel to confirm the current state of the TV. The integration therefore uses assumed states.

Prerequisites

Before setting up the LG Infrared integration, you need a working infrared emitter, an infrared receiver, or both, already set up in Home Assistant. Each must expose an Infrared entity. For example, you can use an ESPHome device with an IR LED pointed at your LG TV to send commands, and an IR receiver module to capture commands from your LG remote.

Configuration

To add the LG Infrared device to your Home Assistant instance, use this My button:

Manual configuration steps

If the above My button doesn’t work, you can also perform the following steps manually:

  • Browse to your Home Assistant instance.

  • Go to Settings > Devices & services.

  • In the bottom right corner, select the Add Integration button.

  • From the list, select LG Infrared.

  • Follow the instructions on screen to complete the setup.

Device type

The type of LG device to control. Currently, only TV is supported.

Infrared emitter

The infrared emitter entity to use for sending commands to your LG TV. This must be an entity provided by a hardware integration (such as ESPHome) that has already been set up with an IR emitter.

Infrared receiver

The infrared receiver entity to use for receiving commands from your LG remote. This must be an entity provided by a hardware integration (such as ESPHome) that has already been set up with an IR receiver.

At least one of Infrared emitter or Infrared receiver must be selected. Select both if you want to be able to send commands to the TV and react to commands from the remote.

Supported devices

The integration supports LG TVs that can be controlled via the standard LG infrared protocol.

Supported functionality

Entities

The LG Infrared integration provides the following entities.

Buttons

Button entities are created when an infrared emitter is configured. Each button sends the corresponding infrared command to the TV when pressed.

  • Power on, Power off
  • HDMI 1, HDMI 2, HDMI 3, HDMI 4
  • Input
  • Up, Down, Left, Right, OK
  • Back, Exit, Home, Menu
  • Info, Guide
  • 0 through 9

Events

An event entity is created when an infrared receiver is configured. It fires an event each time an LG TV remote command is received, so you can use the remote to trigger automations in Home Assistant.

  • Received command
    • Description: Fires when a command from an LG TV remote is decoded from the infrared receiver. The fired event type matches the button pressed on the remote.
    • Event types:
      • Navigation: back, exit, guide, home, info, list, menu, nav_down, nav_left, nav_right, nav_up, ok, settings
      • Inputs and channels: channel_down, channel_up, hdmi_1, hdmi_2, hdmi_3, hdmi_4, input
      • Playback: fast_forward, pause, play, rewind, stop
      • Volume and audio: mute, sap, subtitle, text, volume_down, volume_up
      • Power: power, power_off, power_on
      • Number keys: num_0 through num_9
      • Color buttons: blue, green, red, yellow
      • Other LG commands: aspect, ez_adjust, in_start
      • unknown for any LG command that is not recognized
    • Remarks: Only commands using the LG infrared address are processed. Signals from other remotes are ignored.

Media player

A media player entity is created when an infrared emitter is configured.

  • LG TV
    • Description: Represents the LG TV and allows you to control it via IR commands.
    • Supported features: Turn on, turn off, volume up, volume down, mute, channel up, channel down, play, pause, and stop.

Known limitations

  • The integration uses assumed state, meaning Home Assistant cannot read the actual state of the TV (for example, whether it is on or off, or what the current volume is). Commands received through the infrared receiver are exposed as events only; they do not update the state of the media player entity.
  • Turning on and turning off the TV both send the same IR power toggle command, as is standard with infrared remotes.
  • Volume control is step-based only; there is no way to set an absolute volume level.

Removing the integration

This integration follows standard integration removal.

To remove an integration instance from Home Assistant

  1. Go to Settings > Devices & services and select the integration card.
  2. From the list of devices, select the integration instance you want to remove.
  3. Next to the entry, select the three dots menu. Then, select Delete.