Hello, i just installed HA today to replace an old installation from ~4 years or so ago.
I thought i would start fresh and i hit my first roadblock ![]()
So i am using Zigbee2MQTT as well as Mosquitto broker to be able to use my Sonoff Dongle and Zigbee devices with HA.
I paired all my devices without many issues on z2m and when i press buttons i can see they get registered on the “recent activity” feed.
All i want to do is very simple, i have a few IKEA Rodret switches around my room and i simply only want them to turn all the lights on/off.
When i go to automations and go to see my rodret i am not sure what i am supposed to do, if i select “button pressed” then select my rodret, there are 0 entities with it, so it doesn’t do anything if i try to use it like that, there is no way for me to add an action or a trigger or something along those lines to detect when i press a button ? i remember setting this up very easily in the past but somehow i manage to get stuck here.
All the youtube videos i watch seem to be from a year or so ago and all of them have a slightly different UI or do not seem to show how to make a simple automation that detects a button press, or i am bad at searching haha.
Here is a screenshot of what i am drying to do:
I would be very thankful for the help, for now i’m just gonna use the default toggles in the HA dashboard to turn my lights on and off !


