Identifying what turned a switch off?

[FutureTense]

I’m trying to write an automation to determine what turned a device off. Specifically I have switch.valve and I’m trying to determine what was responsible for it being turned off.

AFAIK a switch can be turned off by the actions switch.turn_off and switch.toggle. Additionally a switch can turn itself off as I’ve learned with my smart water valve, which does so after 30 minutes of being “on”.

Is there a way to catch when the switch actions are called? What about the last case where it’s turning itself off. Is there a way to catch that?

[tom_l]

That would be “physical device” here:

How to use context

By checking three conditions you can tell if it was an automation, a physical device or a person performing an action in a dashboard that changed an entity. This can be useful if you need to know if a person or an automation did something, e.g. were the lights turned on automatically or by a person operating a physical switch or dashboard control? The three context ids and how they relate to the three causes are: [9f58d4c26ecbf53ddbb35cca88956ede8502da41] User mbuscher provided this automatio…