Mqtt switch long AND short press

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Hi all,

I have an mqtt switch working on home assistant. The mqtt switch publishes a message with payload On and Off by watching a push button. So typically home assistant receives on immediately followed by off.

I’m now trying to do something on a long press AND short press. Is this possible? I know I can use an automation with a delay for the configuration of my long press but this will also trigger my short press even if I only want to trigger the long press.

Thanks,
Ronald

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I do this but I get ESPeasy to work out the long or short press, then send mqtt to Home Assistant.

Basically the initial press starts a timer.
If after the timer has finished, the button is no longer pressed : short press.
If the button is still pressed : long press.

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The thing is, I do not have control over the mqtt messages that are send…

I’m using the following hardware: http://denkovi.com/smartden-notifier-iot-module-mqtt-email-alerts-xml-json-api

So, ideally the logic to determine long and short press would be in home-assistant,

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The solution would be to create an automation with the trigger being that mqtt topic with payload ‘on’.

Your first action would be a 1 second delay ( so any press greater than 1 second is long ), then probably a templated ‘if’ looking to see if the payload is still ‘on’.

Sorry I can’t give you a better example but I’m away from my laptop ATM.

PS : That IOT module looks like a very fancy AND expensive piece of equipment. Any reason you are using that instead of something like a Wemos ?

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This isn’t TASMOTA by any chance is it? By setting the following commands in my TASMOTA console, I got it to work: You have to have a “fire-on-release” type of push button rather than “fire-on-press”. All these commands are detailed here: https://github.com/arendst/Sonoff-Tasmota/wiki/Commands

switchtopic 0
switchmode 5
setoption1 1
setoption11 1
setoption32 20
rule on switch1#state=3 do publish [HOLD_MQTT_TOPIC] [HOLD_PAYLOAD] endon
rule 1

Then you can do whatever you want in HA with that new MQTT topic.

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I don’t think the IoT module is a Tasmota (does Tasmota have something like the IoT module I posted? I could be wrong).

And @jivesinger: yes, it may be a bit pricey but I like the fact that it is a DIN module and that it’s wired by ethernet. Also, I still need to get my electricity certified, and I think the authorities will give me a hard time if I use a custom Wemos with some relays.

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I’m thinking about buying a Denkovi module. Did you find any solution for the long press? And what are your impressions so far?

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Very happy with it.

The notifier was easily integrated thanks to mqtt. For the relay module I had to create a custom component to control it but that was easy and I’m happy to share it if you want.

For the long press: it works but the short press is also fired.

Cheers

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Sounds good. :slight_smile: I will seek you as I get one, if you don’t mind. Thank you in advance!