Dingtian relay

[jtubby001]

Hi there

I’ve purchased a dingtian 4 channel relay which I’ve integrated using mqtt.

I now want HA assistant to trigger the relay when my door bell rings.

I’ve created the automation but the relay is a entity. But the automation will only trigger a device.

How do I turn an entity into a device? Or can the automation be adjusted to action an entity, not a device?

I’m sure I am being dumb but can’t see a fix to this simple problem. #beingdumb

Thanks

JT

[tom_l]

You want a state trigger instead of a device trigger.

You should also stop using device triggers.

What happens if I have to replace a device

It’s a big problem that you can avoid by not using device triggers, conditions or actions. There are always other triggers conditions and actions you can use instead. e.g. instead of a device turn on trigger use a state trigger. If you only ever use entity_ids in your triggers, conditions and actions then when you have to replace the device you can change the new entity id to match the old one in one place and all your automations keep working. If you use device ids you have to change all of …