Hi! I’m using the Xiaomi Aqara platform / component. The xiaomi “smart button” (which is represented by a binary sensor internally) gives me events like this:
2017-10-14 16:34:49 INFO (MainThread) [homeassistant.core] Bus:Handling <Event click[L]: click_type=single, entity_id=binary_sensor.switch_xxxxxxxxxxxx>
(Xes replace the mac address)
I would like to forward events like these to MQTT, to generate MQTT messages like this:
some/topic/<entity_id> <click_type>
This automation is the closest I’ve come:
- alias: Forward clicks to MQTT
trigger:
platform: event
event_type: click
action:
service: mqtt.publish
data_template:
topic: >
some/topic/{{trigger.event.entity_id}}
payload: >
{{trigger.event.click_type}}
However, all I get on MQTT is:
some/topic/ (null)
It looks like I cannot access the attributes of the event in the template. However, I can access the event itself. If I change the template for the payload to {{trigger.event}}, I get these MQTT messages:
some/topic/ <Event click[L]: click_type=single, entity_id=binary_sensor.switch_xxxxxxxxxxx>
So, the event is part of the ‘trigger’ object, I just cannot access its attributes somehow. I also tried the syntax trigger['event']['entity_id'] or trigger['event'].entity_id, all to the same effect.
Does anyone have an idea how to solve this? Any help is appreciated!