Hello, I only just started using Home Assistant but already have something of a problem as the title suggests. I tried backing up and restoring my Home assistant instance, it is run on a home server via Docker. I have a bunch of Zigbee devices that are integrated via the ZHA integration and a Sono…

[image] horstschlaemmer: it seems I’ll need the button’s entity ID to set this up. My buttons don’t seem to expose one, though, just an entity ID for battery, firmware or “identify”. Am I missing something? Kinda. Battery devices don’t have an entity. They send zigbee events instead. Go to D…

[image] Why and how to avoid device_ids in automations and scripts Community Guides Background When you start writing automations, a device trigger seems the obvious choice. Everybody knows what a device is and it comes at the top of the UI dropdown list. [image] It wo…

Thanks for answering so quickly. I’m not sure if I understand this correctly but it seems I’ll need the button’s entity ID to set this up. My buttons don’t seem to expose one, though, just an entity ID for battery, firmware or “identify”. Am I missing something?

I already tried creating a button helper as a test but don’t know how I could link these to the physical buttons I have. I also tried using blueprints that make use of such helpers and are taylored for the buttons I have and ZHA but these also take a device as input that also uses the device ID in t…

I didn’t remember that. I bought a button quite a while ago. Indeed, it does not have entities for button presses and the automation I setup back then is using the device id.

Ah, this looks like what I need. Thanks, I’ll try it as soon as I can!

Ok, I was indeed able to set up an automation with an event trigger as descibed in the thread linked above. What I’m not quite sure about is what “device_ieee” and “unique_id” are. Are these identifiers for actual devices and if yes, are they permanent? I wasn’t able to find anything about it so far…

[image] horstschlaemmer: What I’m not quite sure about is what “device_ieee” and “unique_id” are. Are these identifiers for actual devices and if yes, are they permanent? Off the top of my head (there’s a possibility I’m wrong on one or more answers) device_ieee = MAC address. Baked into the…

l am also a Zigbee event noob, however when I look at the output from one of my switches: device_ieee: a4:c1:38:ef:72:f4:18:11 device_id: e57bd5f8067c1c19df75a0bea1dc7a90 unique_id: a4:c1:38:ef:72:f4:18:11:2:0x0006 endpoint_id: 2 cluster_id: 6 command: remote_button_short_press cluste…

Just had a look at the events fired when I press my buttons and indeed I see the same things. Thanks for explaining, I really appreciate it!

Working through your issue solved my issue too… :grinning: : [image] Simplify / Unify processing of MOES Scene Switches Configuration Another thread mentioned using ZHA Event Triggers to simplify the processing (as shown below). That solves my problem, as I only have to …

How to use Zigbee smart buttons without device ID?

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dtrott (David Trott) September 4, 2025, 8:18pm 12

Working through your issue solved my issue too… :