DirecTV Remotes RC73x (Genie) / RC82v (Gemini) about ha-firemote HOT 1 CLOSED

Greetings @skybasemonkeyha!

THANK YOU for all of the effort you put into making such a detailed request! Simply amazing! I fully understand exactly how much work it takes to do all of that, so you've definitely earned my respect! 👍

To answer your "who ever makes the..." question, it's just me. There are two other one-time contributors to this project, but their contributions were simply app launcher button definitions (which I appreciate!), not full UI elements like what you are requesting.

So, here's the potentially bad news... I have a system in place to decide what gets added next. There is a discussion topic named Poll: Vote for what gets added next! #41 where I gauge user interest. So far, the Firemote project's direction has been 100% directed by the poll results from that topic. Additionally, I have a personal rule that I will only add support for hardware that I own. (yes, I literally own a stack of media players now) I did make one small compromise to that rule with issue #303, and because the requester of that issue was willing to work with me so closely, we were able to add that to the project. It was simply an Amazon Fire product that I didn't own, not a brand new family of devices, so most of the foundation was already there to begin with.

This is what we need to do first:

• I am going to move this issue to a discussion to stay in line with the project's organizational arrangements
• I would like for you to cast your vote in discussion #41 for this request

I know that you are savvy enough to have compiled such a detailed request. If I decide to work on this outside of the normal voting, I have some questions before we move further:

• How much time are you willing or able to contribute to working with me on this?
• Are you willing to do remote (remote) sessions with me if we go down this path since I do not own a DirecTV system?
• Do you know anybody else who uses DirecTV and Home Assistant who might be willing to do some testing after a beta is built?
• How willing are you to answer questions and possibly provide some support after DirecTV is added?

Again, THANK YOU! I'm excited to hear back.

-Doug

from ha-firemote.