BroadlinkWiFi Smart Home Hub RM Mini 3 (2.4 GHz Wi-Fi Only) IR Automation Learning Universal Remote Control for TV Compatible with Alexa, Google Home, IFTTT

A little tricky to make it work but works very well, fast, easy to use, small and reaches all the blinds at my house

Very good IR device. You can make your own IR devices using any IR remote and integrate them into Alexa which is AMAZING. Very very small but works AMAZING. Very easy to control once paired.

Works. Got my Alexa to shut off my TVs when I leave the house. Too bad it's micro-usb and not USB-c

This device is definitely worth the money. It eliminates all your remotes, or at least it did mine. So far I have been able to control all my IR devices and WiFi devices. Works great with Alexa too. If you have a smart phone you won’t regret buying this. It’s a little tricky to set up but once you get it figured out it’s pretty simple. So far it seems to learn every IR remote that I have tried. It simply finds the Roku stuff.

#tldr This product is accompanied by not one, but confusingly two, poorly designed apps combined with a lack of well-translated documentation, which makes this product almost unusable by anyone other than the enthusiastic and stubborn. An investment of multiple hours and considerable online research and trial and error did not result in a win.The task: I am trying to add a legacy, not-very-smart RF controlled window shade to my smart home. It's a Smith and Noble Motivia shade which is a perfectly good product, except that they don't (yet) do any home automation integration, unlike their competitors. Their shades are controlled by a simple RF control T 433.93mHz. That's why I thought that the Broadlink would be perfect, because it would give me both scheduling/automation and voice control.Longer whine: The product is too hard to use. The printed instructions that come with it have been translated (I presume from Chinese) very poorly. There are also two compatible apps in the Apple app store, both of which work, but only one of which purports to integrate with Alexa (which I discovered having of course first invested time setting up the legacy app.) Once the app had detected and set up the hardware onto WiFi (which took several tries and hardware resets with bent paper clips ...) then the process of adding and configuring a remote control wasn't too awful. But for the device I am trying to control, I needed to set up a custom device because the particular remote model wasn't in their device library. That's OK, so I set up a custom device. Pretty quickly managed to teach the software the three button actions I wanted which is shade up, shade stop, shade down. Not an issue (a few re-prompts in the learning cycle to try again, but that is not out of the ordinary with learning IR and RF codes.) So now the correct app on my phone has a software remote device called Shades, the app talks to the hub, and the shades can OPEN, STOP and CLOSE. Just as one would wish.But in effect all I have created so far a bulkier replica of a small plastic remote control using my iPhone. One advantage though: scheduling. I can do that now and no further work is required. But my real killer app is Alexa integration, and that is where things started to go down the rabbit hole, and fast. Firstly, In my opinion the oAuth API integration between Alexa and Broadcom is pretty poor. I initially tried to set up the required Broadcom account in the app via an email address, which apparently requires a confirmation email, which never arrived in my inbox nor my SPAM folder. Meaning even though I appeared to have set up a Broadcom account successfully, and even though Alexa has a Broadcom skill, when I went to permission Alexa to connect to Broadcom, the Broadcom email/PW account credentials would not work. Like 3 times. Now, I drink another caffeine drink and turn up the music. I then restarted the account credential process by setting up my Broadcom account using Facebook, and then enabling the Broadcom API in the Alexa app with the FB credential. Finally works.So .... now I have my smartphone, with the correct app installed, the app is connected to a working Broadcom account credentialed with FB, and in turn Alexa has the Broadcom skill enabled. I'm pretty happy at this point, it's only taken around 2.5 hours so far, which is 2.5 hours of my life I'll never get back. I make an actual sandwich, which curiously just precedes a you-know-what-sandwich courtesy of the team of sadists who created this software/hardware integration. It seems that when Alexa does device discovery for this skill, that custom devices are not somehow discoverable. (See above where my solution required a custom device.) I found this information on a message board somewhere in the depths of the internet. And the suggested remedy from down in this dark place was to instead use what is apparently the only discoverable device in this skill ... which is one of the default TV remote configurations that's in the Broadcom remote control data set. You just take one of those, and then relearn some of the buttons in that config to what you want it to. Rename the buttons if needed, and then, behold ye, rename that TV device to whatever you wish e.g.maybe "Shades" I'm thinkin', and then re-do Alexa device discovery and finally, by power of The Force, your new device will magically show up in Alexa. And guess what? It did. By now, fireworks are going off and the maching band is playing. But, like much happiness, the moment is fleeting, as in short order the waves of desperate pain again come crashing down. I am by this stage quite exhausted, in need of some sort of mild sedative, and ready to self-immolate. Because ........ even though this hacked device is now available in Alexa, when Alexa sends a command, the shades do not respond. Alexa says "OK" and the LED on the hardware hub flashes, but them shades don't even a-flutter. So I grab the phone, open the app, press the button on the app to send the exact same command that Alexa sent, and to which the hub visually responded, and Lo and Behold the shades OPEN. I start to cry and finally realize that at this point of the game, I'm out of plays and ready to concede.Instead, I cheer myself up immensely by writing this review. (And if anyone has any good suggestions, I'm all ears. Otherwise, it's back to Broadcom with Mr Hub.)

Not worked as expected. The application and configuration if the device is not in default list is a PIT. I bought one to test if will be a good option for other 4 rooms, but dissapointed me. Only tv worked ok, but air conditioner did not.

Mi solucion a todo lo que quiero conectar a alexa pero no es compatible, super sencillo de usar, esteticamente muy bonito, su conectividad con alexa es inmediata y sin complicaciones, no tiene problema de espacio ni interferencias ni nada, que buen producto definitivamente!

This is a fantastic device for consolidating control over multiple appliances. It worked seamlessly to manage my TV, AC, and other IR-based devices. The remote itself is reliable and versatile, but the biggest downside is the app. While it was once intuitive and efficient, it no longer works well, leaving the device underutilized. If the app were updated, this would easily be a 5-star product.