How to create a trigger when a device is turned on by its physical controls?

[_Mike]

I have several automations that turn on a desk lamp. See logbook below in red. What I want is to trigger an automation that fires when the lamp is turned on by the physical controls on that lamp. See below in green.

In other words, if the lamp turns on via some automation, I don’t want to do anything. But if I physically turn on the lamp by pressing the On button, I want to fire a trigger. Thoughts?

[Didgeridrew]

You need to use a State trigger then condition on the values contained in the context variable of the entity’s state object:

State objects

State.context to UI automation

This nugget was very useful, thank you! With this I can now differentiate the 3 ways a device’s state was changed. [Screenshot 2022-06-21 081430] Here is a sample implementation using the choose action: trigger: - platform: state entity_id: - switch.office condition: [] action: - choose: - conditions: - condition: template value_template: '{{ trigger.to_state.context.id != none }}' - condition: template value_template: '{{ trigge…

[_Mike]

Thank you @Didgeridrew! I will give this a try.