Event won't trigger automation

[yannick818 (Yannick)]

I recently got a Shelly Dimmer 2. Today I installed it and tried to automate the light. My problem now is that the event of the input buttons won’t trigger my automation based on event type. If I remove the event_type, it seems to work, but without filter for long presses.

These are the trigger of my automation

# Works
  - trigger: state
    entity_id:
      - event.shellydimmer2_kuche_channel_1
    id: bright
# Don't work
  - trigger: state
    entity_id:
      - event.shellydimmer2_kuche_channel_2
    id: dark
    attribute: event_type
    to: single
# Works
  - trigger: state
    entity_id:
      - event.shellydimmer2_kuche_channel_2
      - event.shellydimmer2_kuche_channel_1
    attribute: event_type
    to: long
    id: "off"

I can see the events fired in Logbook and Events section on the device page.

Is there a way to see more details of the events fired? Has anyone a clue whats going wrong here?

[Didgeridrew]

This is a known issue:

WTH are event entities not triggered a second time when using the attribute `event_type` in a state trigger?

The new event entities are meant to replace old school event triggers (and Z2M sensor’s). The problem is, the features are not 1 to 1. Old school events will always trigger when an event occurs, same with the legacy event sensors in z2m. The new event entities do not support this functionality though. If the same event comes through a second time, the event is essentially ignored because the event_type attribute does not change. It’s also not clear to users how to get around this issue. Yo…

[yannick818 (Yannick)]

I ended up using the pattern from the docs https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/event/#event-types

This is the final automation

alias: Dining Light
description: ""
triggers:
  - trigger: state
    entity_id:
      - event.shellydimmer2_dining_channel_1
    id: bright
  - trigger: state
    entity_id:
      - event.shellydimmer2_dining_channel_2
    id: dark
conditions: []
actions:
  - if:
      - condition: state
        entity_id: light.shellydimmer2_dining
        state: "off"
    then:
      - action: light.turn_on
        metadata: {}
        data: {}
        target:
          entity_id: light.shellydimmer2_dining
    else:
      - choose:
          - conditions:
              - condition: and
                conditions:
                  - condition: trigger
                    id:
                      - bright
                  - condition: state
                    entity_id: event.shellydimmer2_dining_channel_1
                    attribute: event_type
                    state: single
            sequence:
              - action: light.turn_on
                metadata: {}
                data:
                  brightness_step_pct: 20
                target:
                  entity_id: light.shellydimmer2_dining
            alias: Brighter
          - conditions:
              - condition: and
                conditions:
                  - condition: trigger
                    id:
                      - dark
                  - condition: state
                    entity_id: event.shellydimmer2_dining_channel_2
                    attribute: event_type
                    state: single
            sequence:
              - action: light.turn_on
                metadata: {}
                data:
                  brightness_step_pct: -20
                target:
                  entity_id: light.shellydimmer2_dining
            alias: Darker
          - conditions:
              - condition: or
                conditions:
                  - condition: and
                    conditions:
                      - condition: trigger
                        id:
                          - bright
                      - condition: state
                        entity_id: event.shellydimmer2_dining_channel_1
                        attribute: event_type
                        state: long
                  - condition: and
                    conditions:
                      - condition: trigger
                        id:
                          - dark
                      - condition: state
                        entity_id: event.shellydimmer2_dining_channel_2
                        attribute: event_type
                        state: long
            sequence:
              - action: light.turn_off
                metadata: {}
                data: {}
                target:
                  entity_id: light.shellydimmer2_dining
            alias: "Off"
mode: single