tl;dr - how to get a remote to control an entity that would set a state of off or on.
Hi there - I’m a novice and I’m trying to achieve something that’s a little more advanced than where I am at the minute, so I would be really grateful for any pointers. As I’ve been thinking about how I might achieve this it seems like there are multiple ways it could be done, but I have had a go at one or two but completely failed.
I’m trying to create an entity which would be the state of a mode - off or on. The point of this is to be able to check this state when running automations - the entity would have to be on for it to run.
The off or on mode would be changed by an IKEA Somrig remote in Z2M.
How can I do this? I have tried creating a blank entity and linking one of the button presses on the remote to it but that didn’t seem to work. I tried getting the Somrig bluebrint and tried to get it to do things using that - that didn’t work either. The remote is connected to HA - I’ve got it running a very simple automation to turn a light off and on right now, but I can’t seem to work out what to do to get this to do what I’m after.
Can anyone help? Thank you hopefully in advance!