Device shows activity in HA entity log but, not triggering automations - It was fine an hour ago

Configuration Zigbee
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I have an automation set up to control lights in my bed room with x2 remotes (lights and remotes connected over Zigbee through Z2M).
It had all been working flawlessly until just recently - now both remotes show the correct button press action in the log of Z2M and in the entity logs in HA but, will not trigger in any automation.

I made a super basic automation with just the remote in it as a trigger, the basic automation shows up under the ‘Automatons’ when looking at the remote entity in HA. Button press shows in entity log correctly but, will not show ‘triggered’ when in the automation.

The lights (and other sensors on Z2M) are working fine.

Looked in the HA Supervisor log and saw a list of repeating warnings about Z2M:

23-06-08 07:22:49 WARNING (MainThread) [supervisor.addons.options] Unknown option 'data_path' for Zigbee2MQTT (45df7312_zigbee2mqtt)
23-06-08 07:22:49 WARNING (MainThread) [supervisor.addons.options] Unknown option 'socat' for Zigbee2MQTT (45df7312_zigbee2mqtt)
23-06-08 07:22:49 WARNING (MainThread) [supervisor.addons.options] Unknown option 'mqtt' for Zigbee2MQTT (45df7312_zigbee2mqtt)
23-06-08 07:22:49 WARNING (MainThread) [supervisor.addons.options] Unknown option 'serial' for Zigbee2MQTT (45df7312_zigbee2mqtt)
23-06-08 07:22:49 WARNING (MainThread) [supervisor.addons.options] Unknown option 'base_topic' for Zigbee2MQTT (45df7312_zigbee2mqtt)
23-06-08 07:22:49 WARNING (MainThread) [supervisor.addons.options] Unknown option 'username' for Zigbee2MQTT (45df7312_zigbee2mqtt)
23-06-08 07:24:06 WARNING (MainThread) [supervisor.addons.options] Unknown option 'data_path' for Zigbee2MQTT (45df7312_zigbee2mqtt)
23-06-08 07:24:06 WARNING (MainThread) [supervisor.addons.options] Unknown option 'socat' for Zigbee2MQTT (45df7312_zigbee2mqtt)
23-06-08 07:24:06 WARNING (MainThread) [supervisor.addons.options] Unknown option 'mqtt' for Zigbee2MQTT (45df7312_zigbee2mqtt)
23-06-08 07:24:06 WARNING (MainThread) [supervisor.addons.options] Unknown option 'serial' for Zigbee2MQTT (45df7312_zigbee2mqtt)
23-06-08 07:24:06 WARNING (MainThread) [supervisor.addons.options] Unknown option 'base_topic' for Zigbee2MQTT (45df7312_zigbee2mqtt)
23-06-08 07:24:06 WARNING (MainThread) [supervisor.addons.options] Unknown option 'username' for Zigbee2MQTT (45df7312_zigbee2mqtt)

Not a clue what any of that means and all my other Zigbee devices seem to be working fine.

There were a couple of things that happened in between the time the remotes last worked (triggered automation):

  1. HA updated from last OS to most recent.

  2. Z2M also had an update

  3. I duplicated my remote control automation and removed all the triggers from the remotes (I was repurposing other parts of that automation for another - not to be using the remotes in duplicated one).

#3 To me seems to be what caused the issue as if it was 1 or 2, I would have expected other devices to be affected but, it’s only these remotes.

I have tried restarting HA and repairing the remote but, no change.

Short of trying to revert to a previous backup, I’m a bit at a loss on how to further troubleshoot or change things now, hoping some of you can spill some knowledge onto me… please.

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== Update == 18m later

I have just rolled back the Z2M update (from: 1.31.1-1 back to 1.31.0-1 ) and now the remotes seem to be working again…

The warnings in HA Supervisor log are still repeating the same as before.

Still not a clue as to why it was only these x2 remotes that broke with the latest Z2M update and all my other Zigbee lights and sensors were working fine.

Also don’t get how the remotes were correctly showing button presses in HA but, just not trigger automation?

I’ve disabled updates for Z2M currently and hopefully someone with more knowledge than I can help me out here.

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I have the same issue with ZigBee2mqtt. I see a switch action in the log but nothing happens.
I use node-red and I see that it’s trying but get a red dot instead of green. I have updated ZigBee2mqtt today.

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Release 1.31.2 · Koenkk/zigbee2mqtt · GitHub. This should fix it for me.
Not sure which devices the x2 remotes are.

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