Issues getting automations work with Bilresa buttons

[vapid plaza]

Hey all,

I'm trying to make a simple automation involving the Bilresa Dual Button and a Kajplats bulb, with the following configuration:

description: ""
triggers:
  - trigger: state
    entity_id:
      - event.bilresa_dual_button_button_1
    attribute: event_type
    to:
      - multi_press_1
conditions: []
actions:
  - action: light.turn_on
    metadata: {}
    data: {}
    target:
      entity_id: light.kajplats_e27_ws_g95_clear_806lm
mode: single```

The issue is that the automation only *sometimes* work, i.e. I can press the button (once) several times in a row and it will only trigger after multiple "Pressed once"-presses.

I can even follow along on the device page and see the button correctly showing "Pressed once" every time I press, but nothing happens, until that 1/10-chance that it does work, so it's not that it doesn't register the click, as also seen from the activity page in the image attached below (Even though I can't get it to show the actual event text in the log, they *are* pressed once events)

I also got into Developer tools and see them pop up by listening to state_changed events, though that's a bit spammy so hard to isolate only to the Bilresa.

Just to get the obvious hardware/software things out of the way:
```OS: HAOS 16.3 (x86_64)
Core: 2026.1.0
Home Assistant: 2026.1.0
Supervisor: 2026.01.0
Thread Radio: ZBT-2

Might be worth mentioning, even though unrelated to the automation, that I previously used one of the PoE Thread radios, with a couple of Matter-over-Thread devices, that started becoming unstable as I added more of the new IKEA devices. As a result I ordered a ZBT-2 which I migrated to before adding more IKEA devices, resolving the issues I were having up to that point. (Issues pairing, and also devices being "laggy")

So with all that out of the way, do any of you have any ideas on what I could try next to debug/troubleshoot this issue? I'm relatively technical and not new to HA, not used automations a lot but I'm about to change that

(I did see the other post on the Bilresa and automations, but figured I should create my own thread instead of going into that thread, apologies in advance if I shouldn't have)

[icy jewel]

because of how event entities work, doing a single press multiple times in a row will cause the "state" to change, but the event type "attribute" will stay the same

so you need to make sure that you trigger based on the state changing, and then check the event type afterwards (either on the trigger variable via a template, or by checking the attribute on the entity)

[vapid plaza]

Oh my gosh, that's exactly what they did in the other thread 😳 and that was it, guess I should've read better 😅

So just for the sake of everyone else, here's how it should look:

description: ""
triggers:
  - trigger: state
    entity_id:
      - event.bilresa_dual_button_button_1
conditions:
  - condition: state
    entity_id: event.bilresa_dual_button_button_1
    state:
      - multi_press_1
    attribute: event_type
actions:
  - action: light.turn_on
    metadata: {}
    data: {}
    target:
      entity_id: light.kajplats_e27_ws_g95_clear_806lm
mode: single

[hybrid drift]

Unfortunately HA still has no nice trigger to handle an event-entity all at once. Still hoping it will come. For now, you probably also want to not trigger on from/to unavailable. So you can make it:

alias: Turn on light
description: ""
triggers:
  - trigger: state
    entity_id:
      - event.bilresa_dual_button_button_1
    not_from:
      - unavailable
      - unknown
    not_to:
      - unavailable
      - unknown
conditions:
  - condition: state
    entity_id: event.bilresa_dual_button_button_1
    state:
      - multi_press_1
    attribute: event_type
actions:
  - action: light.turn_on
    metadata: {}
    data: {}
    target:
      entity_id: light.kajplats_e27_ws_g95_clear_806lm
mode: single

And unfortunately, also the not_from and not_to are still not in the UI...

[brittle gate]

I'm so glad I found this! I bought some Bilresa switches a couple of days and have been going crazy trying to work out why my automations weren't working when I could clearly see that HA was detecting the button presses.

I can understand what has been said as to why this is happening and will need to update my automations accordingly. However, I have a single "Choose" automation for each Bilresa device so I am a little confused as to where things need to go. I've attached the YAML for my existing automation which works fine as long as I do a different button press to the previous one.

Can anybody give me some guidance on what needs updating in the YAML to make this work please?

[hybrid drift]

@brittle gate
https://pastebin.com/j43qagnH

[brittle gate]

Thank you!!! I have just updated my automation with your code and it is working perfectly!!! I was almost on the right track with fixing it myself based on the original code you posted but I don't think I would have worked it out completely without your help.

This is for my wife's bedside. I have another one for my bedside but the lights are reversed. I will definitely be able to sort that out myself.

I hope that HA eventually supports this kind of setup in the Visual Editor as I am sure IKEA is going to sell a heap of these things.

Thank you again. I really appreciate your help with this!

[hybrid drift]

No problem 🙂

And yeah, this showcases two major shortcomings to the UI automations. Both the crappy event-entity support and the fact not_from and not_to are still not in the UI (even though I would say they can be a 1:1 copy of the state selector).

[brittle gate]

Hopefully that changes soon.

I just updated the automation for my device and it is also working fine. Now I just need to come up with ideas for the double press and hold press for button 2 on both switches but I will be fine to add those.

The other GREAT thing is I just explained the functionality to my wife and the WAF is high!!!