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Hello everyone,

to close properly the thread, I completed my testing and I came up with the solution

I setup the gpio needed as a binary sensor and I check for actions with the on_multi_click automation, for now I tested single click, double click, long click and hold presses.

I tried the template sensor, but it wasn’t suitable for my need, since to work properly I would need to reset the value after each action, and Home Assistant has some issues with this, at least in my tests.

I worked out a good solution using the homessistant.event automation, which simply creates an event in the HA bus, the event id has to begin with esphome. and can have or have not some data in it, I chose to do it, for better readability.
Plus I don’t need to create sensors of any kind, and also the binary sensors attached to the GPIOs can be internal to esphome, so there is less communication to and from HA and they don’t need to show up in HA dashboard

Anyway now I can fire any automation on HA from the esphome device buttons.

Thank you all for helping out.

Ciao

Claudio

Here is a sample binary sensor setup

  - platform: gpio
    pin:
      number: GPIO25
      mode: INPUT_PULLUP
      inverted: True
    name: "Puls_32_01_25"
    on_multi_click:
    - timing:
      - ON for at most 1s
      - OFF for at most 1s
      - ON for at most 1s
      - OFF for at least 0.2s
      then:
        - logger.log: "Double Clicked"
        - homeassistant.event:
            event: esphome.puls_32_01_25
            data:
              title: dbl_click
    - timing:
      - ON for 1s to 2s
      - OFF for at least 0.5s
      then:
        - logger.log: "Single Long Clicked"
        - homeassistant.event:
            event: esphome.puls_32_01_25
            data:
              title: long_click
    - timing:
      - ON for at least 2.2s
      then:
        - logger.log: "Click and Hold"
        - homeassistant.event:
            event: esphome.puls_32_01_25
            data:
              title: hold
    - timing:
      - ON for at most 1s
      - OFF for at least 0.5s
      then:
        - logger.log: "Single Short Clicked"
        - homeassistant.event:
            event: esphome.puls_32_01_25
            data:
              title: single_click

And here is a sample automation triggered from this custom event:

alias: 'Tastiera Sala TV p1'
trigger:
  - platform: event
    event_type: esphome.puls_32_01_25
    event_data:
      title: dbl_click
action:
  service: script.turn_on
  entity_id: script.hue_scena1
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