For the love of gawd can we get a momentary switch already?

Feature Requests
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I know its not what your asking/looking for but after a year using HA I recently found/realized you can change the EXECUTE word into anything with:

          - action_name: AnyWordHere
            entity: script.blahblah
            name: Name of your entity

Might Help others.

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43

Problem is that there is no ‘release’ event. So you can’t do an action while the button is held and stop it when released.

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44

I see, like pressing on a Volume Up button on a TV remote? It may be possible to use the 3 Lovelace actions

  • tap_action: increase volume by one step
  • hold_action: start loop of step-wise increase, until either max is reached, or
  • double_tap_action: stop the previous process
45

i use the following :

platform: template
    switches: 
      test:
        value_template: > 
          {% if is_state('switch.test','on') %}
            false
          {% endif %}
        turn_on:
          
        turn_off:

So the template will turn the switch off when you turn it on. Since the value template will not trigger the switch when it turns off , you have a momentary switch that will only trigger on, and then will turn itself off

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Hi, for me this one works. But by default, it assumes the state as “On”. I want it to be off. How can we do that