Automation will not trigger on Topic, Listening to Topic does work

Configuration Zigbee
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Building an automation for a zigbee remote to control a light.
Looked up the Topic and what messages it sends, not the weirdest thing is that the automation will not react to the MQTT topic.

alias: Alex RGWB remote
description: ""
triggers:
  - trigger: mqtt
    topic: zigbee2mqtt/Alex Afstandsbediening

The rest is just an action to toggle a light. There is however no trace for when i smash the buttons and no colored bar at the trigger to indicate a trigger.

In the MQTT integration i do see the messages when i listen to that topic:

Message 14 received on zigbee2mqtt/Alex Afstandsbediening at 19:53:
{
    "action": "on",
    "action_group": 16388,
    "last_seen": "2025-01-04T18:53:12.493Z",
    "linkquality": 255
}

Same goes for MQTT Explorer. And sending any message to that topic from the explorer also does not trigger the automation.

2

Sometimes space can cause issues and need to be included in control codes, like quotes, double quotes, brackets or other characters.
I do not know if this is the case with MQTT and neither what the control codes might be, but you could try to replace the space with a minus or a underscore to avoid this completely.