How to add this button press as trigger?

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That’s a separate issue and is due to ‘contact bounce’ caused by the physical button’s operation.

The usual “debouncing” technique is based on timing. You define a minimum time period between button presses such as 2 seconds and ignore all events that occur faster than 2 seconds.

For example, imagine after the first 1002 is received, more are generated every 0.25 seconds. We would ignore events 2 through 8 because they were all received within 2 seconds of the first one. We would accept only the one that arrives 2 (or more) seconds after the first one.

0.0 --- 0.25 --- 0.5 --- 0.75 --- 1.0 --- 1.25 --- 1.5 --- 1.75 --- 2.0
 1       2        3       4        5       6        7       8        9
YES------NO-------NO------NO-------NO------NO-------NO------NO------YES

The challenge is where to get the timing information? I would suggest using the automation’s own last_changed time but a fair bit of experimentation is needed to arrive at a working solution.

Another way to debounce it is to use a proxy such as an input_boolean

  • When the first 1002 is received, it turns on an input_boolean.
  • When additional 1002 events are received, each one also turns on the same input_boolean. However, the first time the input_boolean is turned on, additional attempts to turn it on effectively do nothing (the input_boolean has effectively debounced the stream of 1002 events).

Create the following input_boolean:

input_boolean.spot_midden

then try this automation:

- alias: 'Example 1'
  id: example_1
  mode: queued
  trigger:
  - platform: event
    event_type: deconz_event
    event_data:
      id: rc_ef_3_0_142
      event: 1002
  - platform: state
    entity_id: input_boolean.spot_midden
    to: 'on'
  - platform: state
    entity_id: input_boolean.spot_midden
    to: 'on'
    for: '00:00:02'
  action:
  - choose:
    - conditions: "{{ trigger.platform == 'event' and is_state('input_boolean.spot_midden', 'off') }}"
      - service: input_boolean.turn_on
        target:
          entity_id: input_boolean.spot_midden
    - conditions: "{{ trigger.for is defined and trigger.for != None }}"
      sequence:
      - service: input_boolean.turn_off
        target:
          entity_id: input_boolean.spot_midden
    default:
    - service: light.toggle
      target:
        entity_id: light.spot_midden

How it works:

  • When triggered by the first 1002 event, it turns on input_boolean.spot_midden. Any additional 1002 events received within 2 seconds will be ignored because the input_boolean’s state is already on.
  • When input_boolean.spot_midden turns on, it triggers the same automation which proceeds to toggle light.spot_midden.
  • After input_boolean.spot_midden is on for 2 seconds, the automation forces it back to off. Now it is ready to receive new 1002 events.
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