Iguanaworks has closed and our products are no longer sold

Home Assistant* introduced support for infrared a few days ago. Not sure if it would be a good idea to stay in business for a bit longer and see if the Home Assistant community boost the sales.

I am personally interested in an IR Sender to make my old Hifi Setup smarter.

* https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2026/04/01/release-20264/

Well damn, I didn't know about this until now, and I could actually use one.

Is there any alternative?

Awww I have one of those. It still works after more than 10 years!

Maybe that's what happened, everyone who needed one bought and we don't need an upgrade

Sad to see someone’s small business close, but these products are in a difficult position of being both extremely niche and very simple. Someone went to some effort to source a nice dongle enclosure and do some printing on it, but beyond that the hardware is something that anyone with a little PCB experience could replicate it in a day. I wouldn’t be surprised if these were just sourced from a generic manufacturer in China and they asked for custom printing.

If there’s demand this would be a good project for someone to make and have ready to build PCBs you could order from OSH Park or even a fully project that you could have JLC build and populate.

Presumably there just isn't that much use for that anymore.

Most remotes seem to be RF not ir these days.

I’m guessing that modern hardware are all controlled by privacy-invading apps, communicating via the company’s servers.