Multi click actions for wall switch with ESPhome

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Hi

First contribution from long-time lurker.

I have searched high and low for solutions to having shelly 1 and 2.5 wall switches in my walls for a guest-and-SO-friendly approach to lights.
We live in Denmark in an older, rented house, so options are limited. I have installed Shelly 1 and 2.5 switches behind the rocker switches in the walls flashed with ESPhome. I was annoyed that the contacts weren’t consistently up or down dependent on light on/off status, so I converted them to spring loaded click switches. Now I had the possibility of using multi click actions.
In ESPhome-devices.io, there is an example for this use case using HomeAssistant.events. Could not get that to work.
Found an example of implementing a text_sensor in stead (https://gist.github.com/albertnis/f33066b0b3623a9839a3429c8f19f4d4). I modified this and added a blueprint for easy configuration of automations for each action.

Long story short:
EPShome configuration example: https://gist.github.com/agdamsbo/819c27a5b986c38327d4b19057cbfb6d
Accompanying blueprint: https://gist.github.com/agdamsbo/f49277bd8dd9bbada055c49600bea9e2

Feel free to use and copy, and thank you for feedback.

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Hello, how do I add this blueprint, when trying to add it, Homeassistant complains about the fact that the filename does not contain .yaml

Regards
Dirk

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‘Solved’ it by copying it to my own account and edit it, the name and the url inside the file, then add it via the ‘add blueprint’ in home assistant.

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Glad you got it working. I’ll have a look at making it easier.