Trying to switch from IOBroker to Homeassistant / problems migrating automations/scripts

[strange schooner]

Hi,

i'm trying to switch from IOBroker to Homeassistant so i'm realy new to Homeassistant.

For a few years i am using IOBroker to control my smart devices. Mainly Ikea Zigbee devices. So i installes Zigbee2mqtt on a Kubernetes host besides Homeassistant and NodeRED.

But i can't find a way to have a system similar to the Javascript functions in IOBroker. In IOBroker one can completly write automations in Javascript.

So a small part of a script i'm trying to create in either NodeRED, pyscript or plain Homeassistant and i'm failing hard:

on({ id: idBrightStop, change: "ne" }, async function (obj) {
    if (obj.state.val) {
        if (DEBUG == true) console.log("Stoppe Timer");
        setState(idLevelMove, 0);
    }
});
 
on({ id: idBrightUp, change: "ne" }, async function (obj) {
    if (obj.state.val) {
         if (DEBUG == true) console.log("Starte Timer");
        setState(idLevelMove, 100);
    }
});

on({ id: idBrightDown, change: "ne" }, async function (obj) {
    if (obj.state.val) {
        if (DEBUG == true) console.log("Starte Timer");
        setState(idLevelMove, -100);
    }
});

This part of the script watches the Button on / off on the remote beeing held triggering the brightness_up / brightness_down actions and moving the brightness up untill brightness_stop is published.

is there some way i can do something like this in homeassistant? I realy dislike dragging blocks or IFTTT like logics...

pyscript has the problem that i can't figure out how i could trigger on actions from the remote.

[ancient shadow]

so this is an MQTT topic?

i'm not sure where I got topic from

ignore that

anyways, the remote needs to send this information to HA in order to action off it.

We'd need that info in order to show you what to do

[strange schooner]

that is one thing i can't realy figure out.. i tried to figure out the button action id's with develop -> events but with state_changed i can't get anything when i press a button, but a automation with the on action for the button seams to work..

[strange schooner]

i think i got something that somewhat does what i want, but it's realy choppy when changing the brightness by holding the button... and i can't understand why.

# pyscript: ikea_remote.py

light_mqtt_topic = "zigbee2mqtt/arbeitszimmer"
color_temp_min = 250
color_temp_max = 450
color_temp_step = 20

@event_trigger("arbeitszimmer_fernbedienung_action")
def ikea_remote_handler(**kwargs):
    action = kwargs.get("action")
    log.info(f"IKEA Remote Action: {action}")

    if action == "brightness_stop":
        log.info("Brightness STOP – sending MQTT brightness_stop")
        mqtt.publish(f"{light_mqtt_topic}/set", {"brightness_stop": True})

    elif action == "brightness_move_up":
        log.info("Brightness UP – sending MQTT brightness_move 100")
        mqtt.publish(f"{light_mqtt_topic}/set", {"brightness_move": 100})

    elif action == "brightness_move_down":
        log.info("Brightness DOWN – sending MQTT brightness_move -100")
        mqtt.publish(f"{light_mqtt_topic}/set", {"brightness_move": -100})

    elif action == "arrow_left_click":
        log.info("ColorTemp DOWN")
        ct = state.get(f"light.arbeitszimmer", attribute="color_temp")
        if ct is not None:
            if ct <= color_temp_min:
                log.warning("Min ColorTemp erreicht")
                mqtt.publish(f"{light_mqtt_topic}/set", {"effect": "blink", "color_temp": color_temp_min})
            else:
                mqtt.publish(f"{light_mqtt_topic}/set", {"color_temp": ct - color_temp_step})

    elif action == "arrow_right_click":
        log.info("ColorTemp UP")
        ct = state.get(f"light.arbeitszimmer", attribute="color_temp")
        if ct is not None:
            if ct >= color_temp_max:
                log.warning("Max ColorTemp erreicht")
                mqtt.publish(f"{light_mqtt_topic}/set", {"effect": "blink", "color_temp": color_temp_max})
            else:
                mqtt.publish(f"{light_mqtt_topic}/set", {"color_temp": ct + color_temp_step})

[ancient shadow]

state changed events only show you state changed events. This likely isnt' a state changed event

ah, it's a Z2M remote?

[strange schooner]

it's one of those ikea remotes that is connected through z2m. i tried with state_trigger, but i can't find a state for the remote in HA

[ancient shadow]

basically, there's a number of ways to do this

and it's not straightforward

nore easy

Go to your device in HA, there should be an MQTT integration. In the device page, you should see an event entity.

[strange schooner]

I can see those entities, so action is missing.. but i can't understand why.... oh. btw the script from above never worked... i just forgot that i had the nodered functions i created enabled too...

[ancient shadow]

that's not the right page

go to the MQTT integration, click on devices, then click the device.

don't go to the entities page

that will show you a list of active entities only, the device page shows you active and disabled entities

[strange schooner]

no action there either :/

[ancient shadow]

check your settings in Z2M, you likely need to turn on things on that side

[strange schooner]

i can't find anything that looks like it would make the action available to homeassistant...

[ancient shadow]

settings -> Home assistant integration?

should be 2 checkboxes, one for each potential event type

lastly, you can always watch the MQTT topic where the event stream is coming from

[strange schooner]

those are the settings for homeassistent in zigbee2mqtt

[ancient shadow]

right

you have both of them off

those enable event entities or legacy action sensors

both do what you'd expect. Also, there's the topic you can snoop too

[strange schooner]

gnarf... yeah enabling experimental event entities gives me the action in the device... hopefully i can go on from there... but for now i have to go to bed... many many thanks for your help!!!