Binary sensor as automation trigger

orcool · July 4, 2020, 10:23pm

Hi all,
I am using shelly 2.5 as roller shutter controller ,I would like to add automaiton the recognize how many times I click on the physical switch ( this is a monetary switch, that connected to the shelly).
I am receiving the switch state through mqtt topic ( true when the switch is pushed)
An example for my desirable automation : " if I click twice on the physical switch ( on off, on off) it will turn on my bed-light".
Thanks

truglodite · July 4, 2020, 11:08pm

There is an example of this exact idea, verbatim, right in the docs (on_double_click):

orcool · July 5, 2020, 4:30am

Thank you

orcool · July 8, 2020, 11:09am

how can I convert this syntax of ESPHome to a native home assistant sytax
for example this automation:

    on_multi_click:
    - timing:
        - ON for at most 1s
        - OFF for at most 1s
        - ON for 0.5s to 1s
        - OFF for at least 0.2s

https://esphome.io/components/binary_sensor/index.html

orcool · July 14, 2020, 9:02am

any idea?

Troon · July 14, 2020, 10:17am

This would, I think, be a tricky and unreliable mess of a state machine made up of automations and binary sensors / input booleans that probably wouldn’t work properly with such short timings.

You’d be better off, if possible, flashing ESPHome onto the Shelly, using that to detect the multi-click events and then send a single signal to HA.

orcool · July 14, 2020, 10:34am

But the “multi clicks” state machine in ESPHome are a software not in the firmware, am I wrong?

github.com

esphome/esphome/blob/6682c43dfaeb1c006943ae546145e5f22262cadb/esphome/components/binary_sensor/automation.cpp#L9


      
          #include "automation.h"
          #include "esphome/core/log.h"
          
          namespace esphome {
          namespace binary_sensor {
          
          static const char *TAG = "binary_sensor.automation";
          
          void binary_sensor::MultiClickTrigger::on_state_(bool state) {
            // Handle duplicate events
            if (state == this->last_state_) {
              return;
            }
            this->last_state_ = state;
          
            // Cooldown: Do not immediately try matching after having invalid timing
            if (this->is_in_cooldown_) {
              return;
            }

Troon · July 14, 2020, 10:39am

Not sure what you mean. on_multi_click is a feature of ESPHome, which is a system that generates firmware to be flashed to an ESP8266/ESP32 device.

My suggestion is a) work out how to flash ESPHome firmware on to your Shelly device; b) once successfully working to the same level as the Shelly original firmware, enhance it via the use of on_multi_click to detect the press sequences and send a single, simple trigger signal to HA.

orcool · July 14, 2020, 10:47am

I see , I thought its kind of plugin/integration for the HA that add some new abilities.
Thanks