Roku — enter the Roku IP (Settings → Network → About). Real photo remote, no setup.

Kodi — turn on Settings → Services → Control → "Allow HTTP" (port 8080).

VLC — in VLC turn on Preferences → All → Interface → Main interfaces → "Web", set a Lua HTTP password, restart. Username stays blank.

Philips — older/pre-Android Philips (JointSpace).

Enigma2 / VU+ — satellite & IPTV boxes (VU+, Dreambox, Zgemma…) via OpenWebif. Leave web user/password blank if your box has none.

DirecTV — turn on External Access on the box first: Menu → System Setup → Whole-Home → External Device → Allow (newer firmware: Menu → Settings → Whole-Home → External Device → Allow). Then enter the receiver IP. For a Genie client in another room, put its MAC (no colons) in Client address; leave it 0 for the main box.

Vizio SmartCast — the TV’s own local API. You need a token once: pyvizio --ip=YOUR_IP:7345 pair, read the PIN off the screen, then pair-finish with that PIN. Paste the token and it keeps working. This one is HTTPS on port 7345 (older sets used 9000) and the TV uses a self-signed certificate, so whether your phone accepts it is outside our control — worth knowing before you build.

WiiM — IP is in the WiiM Home app under Device → Info. The API is HTTPS on 443 with a self-signed certificate, so test one button before building a full remote. Volume is absolute (WiiM publishes no up/down command), so the buttons set a level.

Volumio — REST API, no setup (port 3000). Just the IP.

Bluesound / BluOS — Bluesound & NAD players, local HTTP (port 11000), no setup.

Squeezebox / LMS — enter the server IP + the player id (its MAC, Settings → Player).

Snapcast — synchronised multi-room audio, JSON-RPC on port 1780 with no login. Open Snapweb, click a client and a group, and copy the two ids from their detail panes. Volume is absolute, so each level button sets a percentage.

Denon / Marantz — network AVRs, HTTP, no setup (AVR-2010+). Enter the IP.

Yamaha MusicCast — receivers & soundbars, no setup.

Hue — press the bridge Link button, make an API user; enter bridge IP + username.

Elgato Key Light — port 9123, no login at all, so the IP is the only thing to enter. On / off, three brightness levels and the full 7000K–2900K colour range. Works on Key Light, Air, Mini, Light Strip and Ring Light.

Nanoleaf — hold power 5–7s to pair, get a token; enter IP + token.

WLED — no setup, just the IP.

Tasmota — flashed plugs/switches/bulbs, HTTP, no pairing.

Shelly Gen1 vs Gen2/Plus/Pro — try Gen2 first; if nothing fires, use Gen1. Reserve the plug IP in your router.

Bond Bridge blasts the RF/IR that ceiling fans, fireplaces & shades use.

Venstar thermostat — ColorTouch and Explorer, over your own network. Turn the API on once: Menu → Wi-Fi → Local API, and leave Screenlock off (the spec requires a PIN when it is on but never documents how to send one, so we do not guess). Port 80 for most units — if yours answers on 8080, enter 192.168.1.100:8080. You give it four temperatures because Venstar takes an absolute setpoint, never an up/down nudge: one comfort pair and one setback pair. For Auto, the cool number must sit at least 2° above the heat number.

Daikin air conditioner — the BRP069C4x WiFi module’s own local API. No account, no cloud, no password. Check yours first: open http://<your IP>/common/basic_info in a browser — a line of key=value text means you are in; nothing back means firmware 2.8.0 or newer, which dropped this API. Temperatures are Celsius (10–41). Every command has to carry all six settings, which is why it asks for fan speed and swing as well as the temperature.

Needs ① Local Token (Bond app → Bridge → gear) and ② a Device ID (device → Advanced, or GET /v2/devices). One remote per device.

Everything else on this tab talks straight to the device over HTTP. The four above do not: they speak raw TCP or UDP, which a remote button cannot send. They go through the READYWARE PC Bridge, which turns one HTTP call into one packet.

So there are two addresses. The IP box at the top is the bridge (the machine running the script). The device’s own IP goes in the field below it.

It does not have to be a PC. The Python bridge runs on anything — a Raspberry Pi on a shelf, a NAS, an old laptop. For these four that is the better host, because the relay only answers while that machine is awake, and a projector remote should not depend on your desktop being on.

Turn the relay on. It ships off. Open the bridge script and set ALLOW_RELAY = True ($AllowRelay = $true in the PowerShell one). It refuses any destination outside your own network, so it cannot be used as an open proxy — leave that guard alone.

PJLink is the one to notice. It is a published standard, so a single remote drives projectors from Epson, NEC, Sony, Panasonic, BenQ, Optoma, Christie and Barco alike.

Run the free READYWARE PC Bridge on the computer (no install on Windows), enter the IP it prints. Keyboard, mouse, and a launcher for apps/files/web/email/reboot. Windows · Mac · Linux.

Valetudo — cloud-free firmware for Roborock, Dreame and Viomi vacuums. No account and no vendor servers: enter the robot’s IP and you get start, pause, dock, locate and suction levels. This is the way to put a robot vacuum on a remote without handing anyone your map data.

OctoPrint — Settings → API → Global API Key. Default port 5000; if yours answers on 80, enter the address as 192.168.1.x:80.

Klipper / Moonraker — Mainsail and Fluidd printers. Port 7125, and no key needed while your phone is on the trusted LAN, which is Moonraker’s default.

Fully Kiosk Browser — Android wall tablets. Turn on Remote Administration in Fully and set a password. Wake the screen, jump to your dashboard, or restart it from a button.

OpenSprinkler — open-firmware irrigation, no account and no cloud. The password goes in as a lowercase MD5 hash, not as itself — the default opendoor is a6d82bced638de3def1e9bbb4983225c. Zones count from 0, so zone 1 on the box is 0 here. This is the only way to get sprinklers onto a remote: there are no infrared codes for them anywhere.

Home Assistant — make a Long-Lived token (Profile → Security). Point at one media_player, or paste your entity list for a whole-house remote.

Cloud-only gear (Tuya, SmartThings, Meross, Roborock…) — add to HA once, control here through HA.

Domoticz — enter the server IP + a device IDX (Setup → Devices), and your login if set.

AdGuard Home — turn network ad/tracker blocking on/off or pause it. Uses your AdGuard admin login.

Pi-hole — check your version first. v5 uses the API token from Settings → API. v6 deleted that token and replaced the whole API, so the v5 buttons cannot work on it — pick the v6 chip instead, and leave its session box blank if your Pi-hole has no web password (that is Pi-hole\'s own documented no-auth case, and the normal LAN setup).

qBittorrent — cookie login only, no API key. Turn on Options → Web UI → Bypass authentication for clients in whitelisted IP subnets and add your own subnet, then just the IP is needed. Build gives you both the v5.0 Stop/Start buttons and the v4.x Pause/Resume ones — keep the pair that matches your version.

Portainer — one remote per container. Token from My account → Access tokens, plus the environment id (usually 1) and the container name. HTTPS on 9443 with a self-signed certificate.

Proxmox VE — one remote per VM. Make an API token (Datacenter → Permissions → API Tokens) with VM.PowerMgmt and paste the whole PVEAPIToken=… value, plus the node name and VM id. HTTPS on 8006, self-signed.