Not a valid value for dictionary value

Third party integrations Node-RED
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New, fresh install of HAOS, as VM in proxmox. Zigbee via ZHA and Sonoff “P” USB dongle passed through. A while back, I decided I didn’t like my first configuration of HA, so I decided to start from scratch. Before, I could set a “device trigger (zigbee remote button press)” to trigger a device action (zigbee bulb action). No problem. I even had Node Red use a separate trigger to do the same action!

Sometime during the move, I am no longer able to get Node-Red to activate a node. I am getting an error,

"code: "invalid_format"
message: "not a valid value for dictionary value @ data['entity_id']. Got None"

It only happens in Node-Red, I can play with the bulbs in HA all day long, they do what I expect.

I have HACS, I’ve installed the Node-Red Companion, and searched ed 'til my eyes bled.

What am I doing wrong!???!?

Thanks!, Bwahaha

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Check that the entity_id is correct and that there is no extra characters, like a space in the end.
Maybe delete the value and write it again manually.
If the entity_id is provided in a message, then put a debug on the previous nodes output and set it to view the entire message and not only just the payload, because the entity_id might be included in the message and therefore overwrite the value set in the node config.