Event actions OK but event type triggers not firing! 🤔

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1

I'm trying to use a zigbee battery powered switch to run multiple actions with a choose block.

It's a sonoff SNZB-01 button which supports short, long and double press.
So I have these 3 triggers in a single automation:

  - trigger: state
    entity_id:
      - event.bedroom_switch_action
    attribute: event_type
    to:
      - long
    id: long
  - trigger: state
    entity_id:
      - event.bedroom_switch_action
    attribute: event_type
    to:
      - single
    id: single
  - trigger: state
    entity_id:
      - event.bedroom_switch_action
    attribute: event_type
    to:
      - double
    id: double

I see that the device action happens for each type of button press but the automation does only run 'occasionally'.
Am I doing something wrong or what am I missing?

2

Ok, even though I have been looking for quite some time at this, just now I figured out what the solution is! :blush:

triggers:
  - trigger: state
    entity_id:
      - event.bedroom_switch_action
    not_from: unvavailable

....

actions:
  - choose:
      - conditions:
          - condition: template
            value_template: "{{trigger.to_state.attributes.event_type == 'long'}}"
3

Hi @Didgeridrew, it seemed as my first solution should work and I don't understand why it worked only sometimes.
Can you enlighten me by telling why it is like that?

4

The attribute doesn't change when the same event type happens in succession. So if you do a single press, but the last event was also a single press it doesn't cause a change that an attribute-focused State trigger recognizes.

5

Thanks for explaining! :person_bowing: