Homeassistant.event how do you access data

ESPHome
1

Hi All,

Trying to work out how you access esphome event data in a HA automation.

So I’m triggering an event in esphome:

     - homeassistant.event:
        event: esphome.music_tag
        data:
          url: !lambda |-
            return id(url);

How do I access url value in home assistant? I’ve got an automation in home assistant with a trigger as follows:

    trigger: event
    event_type: esphome.music_tag
    event_data: {}

Which generates a trigger fine, but how do you access the url value in the action?

    data:
      media_content_id: '{{ trigger.event.data.url }}' 
      media_content_type: music
      enqueue: replace
    action: media_player.play_media
    target:
      entity_id: media_player.living_room

I’ve tried lots of variations of this but nothing gets the value I’m expecting. What should this look like?

2

Go to Developer Tools → Events and listen to the event. Share the event data here if you can’t work it out from the returned data.

3

Thanks, that event tool is really handy. So much easier being able to see whats being sent, or not sent (in this case!.