Fibaro FGD212 use Button s1 to activate scenes

Configuration Z-Wave
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Hi guys
I’m trying to use the event of S1 being pressed to activate a certain set of scenes to start. I don’t seem to get it to work because in automations I cannot extract the event of S1 being pressed. Do I first need to activate scenes? In automations I found something about parameter 28 having to be on but that doesn’t seem to change anything either.

I have fibaro FGD212.
It’s used to work fine in openhab but changing to home assistant seem to be an issue.
Also I have no comprehensive log system.
Any help would be appreciated. I cannot see anywhere where it actually says that S1 is pressed in the log file as a matter of fact I even have trouble finding the log file.
Please note that I’m very new to home assistant of though I was quite confident in using openhab2

Sorry for the very much noob question

Any help is appreciated thank you.

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Yes. You have to enable scenes using parameter 28. This gets the modules sending scene IDs. Then you need to capture the scene ID as a trigger in an automation. I use zwave js so for me this is Trigger on event type “zwave_js_value_notification”. The event data should be node_id: and value_raw:

Here is the yaml for my trigger. This is to trigger on a dimmer 2 sending scene id 22 which is S2 being held.

platform: event
event_type: zwave_js_value_notification
event_data:
node_id: 22
value_raw: 22
id: '722'
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Hey Simon,
thank you very much for your reply.
I got it working as far as the turning on process is concerned. Now I have to make sure that it only triggers when the light is actually turned from off to on. So I reckon it’s something with conditions when only the lights off off and not on. Where would I find that?

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Add that as a condition in your automation.

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Alright. so the complete automation would be as follows in my case:

alias: Bad Licht abend 60%
description: ''
trigger:
  - platform: event
    event_type: zwave_js_value_notification
    event_data:
      node_id: 4
      value_raw: 10
      id: '722'
condition:
  - condition: device
    type: is_off
    device_id: 2f41a2d45196721fdd3eb28249ececd5
    entity_id: light.badezimmer
    domain: light
  - condition: state
    entity_id: binary_sensor.abend
    state: 'ON'
action:
  - service: light.turn_on
    data:
      brightness_pct: 70
    target:
      entity_id: light.badezimmer
mode: single

I want the Bathroom light to be at brightness 70% when the binary sensor evening is on (from Sunset+30 until 23:00"
but as of now I have no luck.

Thank you

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Firstly, have you looked at the trace for the automation? I find it quite useful to see what’s going on.

I replicated your automation as best I could and noted that the state for the second condition was “on” rather than “ON”. I was using an input boolean rather than a binary sensor so yours maybe different but this is case sensitive. When I changed from “ON” to “on” the automation worked and set the light to 70%.

Just curious but is device id 4 light.bedezimmer? If so you might get some timing timing issues as S1 controls the light directly.

BTW, the trigger id is not needed. I use as as I have a number of triggers for my automation and do different things depending on which trigger was used. In your case its not needed.