Single-Tap Home Theater Orchestrator That Coordinates Projector, Receiver, Lights, Shades, and Phone DnD

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Smart home enthusiasts have stopped asking for individual integrations and started asking for one-button 'movie mode' that actually works across the whole stack: projector on, receiver to the right input, lights dim, shades close, phones to do-not-disturb. Home Assistant gets close but requires programmer-level setup. Consumer remotes (SofaBaton, FLIRC) handle IR but not phone or app states.

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The opportunity is the phone app + a $40 IR-Wi-Fi-BLE bridge. Consumer households will pay $200 once for hardware that works. The hard part isn't the protocols... it's onboarding: make the discovery flow good enough that a non-technical user can map 'movie' to seven actions in under 10 minutes. Win onboarding, win the market.

landscape (3 existing solutions)

Logitech Harmony's discontinuation left a $300 hole that nobody refilled. Home Assistant is the technical answer; the consumer answer doesn't exist.

SofaBaton X1S Hardware remote with IR + Bluetooth + Wi-Fi, but reviewed as inconsistent. Doesn't touch phone DnD or non-IR scene transitions.

FLIRC Skip 1s Cleaner UX than SofaBaton but still device-control only. No app-state awareness.

Home Assistant Can do all of this technically. Requires YAML, MQTT, custom integrations, and a homelab. Most households who want this aren't going to set it up.

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reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/homeautomation/comments/1syjjil/my_... "press one button, the room gets ready, and nobody has to think about it" 2026-04-29

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