How to Instruct Assist to Press a Button?

Steven2025 · April 24, 2025, 7:47am

So, my question is how to define a custom intent to press a button since the built-in intents (HassTurnOn …) does not include HassPress ?

jackjourneyman · April 24, 2025, 10:53am

I’m not sure you can, because a button press is an event, not a switch. Your voice command would have to address whatever the button does.

Steven2025 · April 24, 2025, 2:48pm

A few moments later

After doing some homework, I have learnt some basic about intent_script from the reddit fellows. You can create a custom intent e.g. “HassPressButton” in configuration.yaml like:

intent_script:
  HassPressButton:
    speech:
      text: "Sure—pressing {{ domain[0] }} of {{ name }} now."
    slots:
      domain:
        type: domain
        domain:
          - input_button
          - button
      name:
        type: text
    action:
      - service: "{{ domain[0] }}.press"
        # this assume the target entity id follow convention of the name
        target:
          entity_id: "{{ domain[0] }}.{{ name | lower | replace(' ', '_') | replace('-', '_') }}"

This works as an add-on (or maybe I should pull a request there?) for firing button event for Assist developed by our fellow: GitHub - michelle-avery/openai-compatible-conversation: A copy of Home Assistant's built-in OpenAI Conversation Agent, with support for changing the base url.

good night