Infrared emitters in Home Assistant

[BHSPitMonkey]

Has there been any discussion yet around enabling the new infrared emitter entity type that landed in Home Assistant 2026.4?

It's not entirely clear to me how this would be implemented via MQTT, but it would be cool to finally make it easy to distribute and consume catalogs of IR codes this way without having to think about the vendor-specific formats as a user.

Blog post: https://developers.home-assistant.io/blog/2026/03/30/infrared-entity-platform/

[tuck-ski]

I am also interested in this. My setup with three remotes is working fine as-is but it would be neat if it could use the new built-in entity.

[chopper145]

I am also interested in this. I am using two IR Blasters with zigbee2mqtt.

A pull request is open in the feature discussions:

https://github.com/orgs/home-assistant/discussions/3783

[flubshi]

@Koenkk need infrared entities to be implemented in Home Assistant MQTT before z2m can start implementing them? In Home Assistant itself the entities are already implemented.