Need help with an automation for a wireless button press

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I’m using Zigbee2MQTT, and just paired a wireless Xiaomi dual button. It automatically created a sensor. The state of the sensor changes to Left, right, left_double, right_double, etc, based on which button I press/double press. How can I make it so that a light toggles when a button is pressed. I don’t think the ‘state_changed’ event will work for the times where I press the left button, and then press it again a minute later, since I’m guessing that wouldn’t actually change the state.

Here’s what I have tried, but it’s not working:

- id: MasterButtonLeftClick
  alias: Master Button Left Click
  initial_state: true
  hide_entity: true
  trigger:
    - platform: event
      event_type: click
      event_data:
        entity_id: sensor.0x00158d0002f07928_click
        click_type: left
  action: 
    service: light.toggle
    entity_id: light.0xb0ce181400012763
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I had done that, but it did not work right either. I edited my comment. And it just left aligned everything. I used the BBCode and it is working now.

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Here my config:

automation:
  - alias: sz_schalter_eingang
    hide_entity: true
    trigger:
    - platform: mqtt
      topic: 'zigbee2mqtt/sz_schalter_eingang'
#    - platform: mqtt
#      topic: zigbee2mqtt/0x00137b0002f07120 #old device name - I changed the friendly name
    condition:
      condition: or
      conditions:
        - condition: template
          value_template: "{{ 'left' == trigger.payload_json.click }}"
        - condition: template
          value_template: "{{ 'right' == trigger.payload_json.click }}"
        - condition: template
          value_template: "{{ 'both' == trigger.payload_json.click }}"
    action:
    - service: scene.turn_on
      data_template:
        entity_id: >-
          {%- set scene_map = {'left':'scene.sz_max',
                         'right':'scene.sz_lesen',
                              'both':'scene.sz_aus'} -%}
          {{ scene_map[trigger.payload_json.click] }}

or here the cube with a single thing to trigger and listen to:

  - alias: pc_cube
    hide_entity: true
    initial_state: 'on'
    trigger:
      platform: mqtt
      topic: 'zigbee2mqtt/sz_cube_pc'
    condition:
      - condition: template
        value_template: "{{ 'rotate_right' == trigger.payload_json.action }}"
    action:
    - service: script.turn_on
      entity_id: script.dash_pc_hochfahren

It’s always the same afterwards - look at the payload and define the trigger & In condition comes the part when you realy want it to trigger. so for example
like 'zigbee2mqtt/sz_cube_pc', payload '{"battery":37,"voltage":2975,"linkquality":89,"action":"rotate_right","angle":23.12}'

For the sake of the argument it sould only trigger when I put in a supernew battery.
the condition would be then
value_template: "{{ '100' == trigger.payload_json.battery}}"
and change the automation to the things you want
same with right click, left click and so on

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Ah. I didn’t even think about looking at MQTT. I was just looking at the sensor. I got something working using State_change on the sensor, but it didn’t work right, and then our lights came on randomly in the middle of the night last night for no reason, and I had to wake up to shut them off. So I’m going to try out what you said. Thanks for your help with this.

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Just in case anyone else needs it, what @Underknowledge posted worked perfectly.