How to show name of user who triggered event?

[parautenbach (Pieter Rautenbach)]

A few references:

Change user ID to Friendly name in Automation

Hi all, sorry if this has been previously covered. I couldn’t find anything on it. If it has, feel free to direct me. I have the following automation: My purpose is to send notifications to the companion app when my garage door is open. Some of the entities aren’t the final ones because I’m still testing it. Also, I’m really new to the native HA automation system, so this may not be the most elegant way of doing things. I’ve got the automation working the way I want it for the most part, b…

Work with "Triggered by" in automations

How can i determine (in an automation) what triggered e.g. a Light to turn on? In the Logbook i can see e.g. “turned on by userxyz/automationxyz” If i could set up an automation “trigger: light1 turned on // condition: turned on = empty / turned on = not by userxyz/automationxyz” i could assume that its been turned on by the regular Wallswitch, and set it to 100% brightness. I played around with Things like: alias: _Test with Trigger IDs trigger: - platform: state entity_id: light.colo…