Hello, can anyone give me some real-world examples on how to use the event trigger in an automation? I have these Philips Hue wall switch modules which unfortunately don't offer any switch or button entities but only fire events, so that's what I have to work with.
#How to use the event trigger
gloomy pike
languid socket
Same way you would with any state change automation.
fading edge
First thing to do would be to go to capture what event it actually fires, so you can design a trigger. You can do this in developer-tools/events.
gloomy pike
Same way you would with any state change automation.
There is no entity. Just the device and the event.
gloomy pike
First thing to do would be to go to capture what event it actually fires, so you...
I did get that far, what I don't yet understand is how what I see in the developer tools translates into an event trigger.
fading edge
Ok, well share what you see and we'll go from there.
gloomy pike
Ok, here's what the event monitor spits out: ```
event_type: zha_event
data:
device_ieee: 00:17:88:01:0c:c2:16:b7
unique_id: 00:17:88:01:0c:c2:16:b7:1:0xfc00
device_id: 5bda4e069a38a22a6eb82124ba7abe41
endpoint_id: 1
cluster_id: 64512
command: left_press
args:
button: left
press_type: press
command_id: 0
args:
- 1
- 3145728
- 0
- 33
- 0
- 0
params: {}
origin: LOCAL
time_fired: "2025-01-02T19:07:57.539800+00:00"
context:
id: 01JGM6NN73R1H9W6N8K5V1TK9S
parent_id: null
user_id: null
and: ```
event_type: zha_event
data:
device_ieee: 00:17:88:01:0c:c2:16:b7
unique_id: 00:17:88:01:0c:c2:16:b7:1:0xfc00
device_id: 5bda4e069a38a22a6eb82124ba7abe41
endpoint_id: 1
cluster_id: 64512
command: left_press_release
args:
button: left
press_type: press_release
command_id: 0
args:
- 1
- 3145728
- 2
- 33
- 1
- 0
params: {}
origin: LOCAL
time_fired: "2025-01-02T19:07:57.578276+00:00"
context:
id: 01JGM6NN8A59RZV4E7B0M6ZCDE
parent_id: null
user_id: null
I now need to translate that into a trigger statement.
Here's what I got so far:
trigger: event
event_type: zha_event
event_data:
data:
device_id: 5bda4e069a38a22a6eb82124ba7abe41
command: left_press_release
Might be this:
event_type: zha_event
event_data:
device_id: 5bda4e069a38a22a6eb82124ba7abe41
command: left_press_release