Device trigger events - not in logbook

I successfully created a device trigger for button press via MQTT Discovery.

How can I find out that the device triggers events this way?
I cannot see button press events or other cues in HA (ie in the device logbook)

Thanks to NodeRed, I verified it does work. It offers a dedicated node for that, with a device selector and a picker of available events. Without that, how could I get an event name?

Hello maxym

Have to watch the event buss for events…
Open your Home Assistant instance and show your event developer tools.

Thank you. So you confirm that there is no visual representation of this event on the device page.

The page you advised doesn’t look helpful if all information I have is the name of the device I want to monitor.

Is it something that might change in the future? I mean it’s awkward to not see a device “feature” on device page.

Use event entity instead.

Interesting. Didn’t know about that. I was aware of device triggers only.
Is it currently the preferred way? What are the pros/cons when choosing one over another?

ChatGPT suggests that device triggers are supported by GUI (ie buttons) while event entities are more generic without GUI support.
If it’s true, why device triggers are not visible on device page.

Yes, event entities are preferred, they are the newer and better solution, that will keep getting improvements in the future. Stop using ChatGPT, it often lies.

Yeah… I wouldn’t… believe me. If only HA docs be more helpful.

Thank you for the help

Succeeded…
Thank you