Hi!
I am coming over from the Openhab camp and I am now re-evaluating HA to see if it will fit my needs better. I need some help in figuring out how to do things here.
Basically… most of the interactions with my home automation is done by somebody pushing a physical button somewhere and I would like to find the simplest way to configure those buttons… preferably through the UI. Because I kind off don’t want the repeat of the mess from OH where I had some automations configured in text rules, some in the UI, …
I’ve figured out how to do these things easily for common remotes - like Ikea tradfri stuff connected to deconz - by using “Awwesome HA blueprints”. More problematic are custom 433 MHz buttons and IR remotes. For both I am using Tasmota running on Sonof RF bridge and a few IR-Wifi bridges. All output MQTT. Now, I have used Pyscript to map those MQTT events into a helper text item in HA. NOw I would like to figure out what is the best way to handle those events.
What I would like is simple - when text item X changes to A do Y, when text item X changes to B do Z, …
Is there an existing blueprint that would allow me to do something like that? If not, what is the best way of doing this? Though creating automations, should I just stick to Pycode that I am using to decode those events and just write everything there? Other options?