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So I can turn it on/off using Home Assistant and my phone.

Why not use cheap $10 IR blaster for that? it will connect to home assistant in same manner.

Because it's one more thing that I have to own and maintain; versus a built-in feature?

What a useless feature. Reinventing a worse remote.

It is precisely so I _don't_ have to touch the actual TV remote ever.