Lutron -How to create Automation with Entity trigger and access the same entities as Device trigger?

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I'm probably using some of the wrong terms and if so, I apologize for confusing things.
I'm trying to create a simple automation that will active Scene "A" when my Pico remote top button pressed and activate Scene "B" when the bottom button is pressed. I'm using what I believe are Best Practices by not using Device triggers so that I'm better positioned for the inevitable Pico replacement remote and using Entity triggers instead. (In case I'm not being clear, entity based automations are more durable to device replacement as you don't need to manually update YAML to replace the device and entity UUIDs, instead you simply give the replacement device the same entity ID and it all "just works")

Anyway, on the Device page for my remote, there is an On and Off control, each with a "Press" button. When I press them I can see in the activity log 3 things:

1. "Basement Sitting Area Theater Light Control On" followed by
2. "Basement Sitting Area Theater Light Control press on" and finally...
3. "Basement Sitting Area Theater Light Control release on"

However, when I press the button on the Pico remote I do NOT see item #1 from the above list in the Activity list. This leads me to my issue: My Automation uses Entity State Triggers of which I have two options: on and off and neither of which fire when I press the buttons on the remote. Argh! So I tried to create an entity trigger based on the "press" and "release" events but those aren't entities that seem available. I'm not confused, lost, scared, cold and alone...

Here you can see event group #1 when I press the UI button in HA, then above it group #2 when I press the remote button:

When I start a Device Trigger I see the various button event entities (is that what these are called??)

But my State trigger only has "Off" and "On" available, neither of which are useful for me

I hope I'm just missing something and not running into a limitation or anything. Any help will be appreciated.