I just installed the latest Home assistant on raspberry pi 4. I have a conbee 2 attached. I used the system until recently but a few months old HA version and everything worked fine. Now i moved to a different place and am starting fresh. Ive added a light bulb, ok. Then ive tried adding 3 different remotes, ikea and philips, but they dont show any actions like btton pressed like before, only battery and a binary sensor. I wonder what has changed. I am using ZHA.
I am trying to.do automations like before.
Not sure I understand. Was the function to simply choose an trigger as button pressed removed from automations?
I also notice that for a ceiling lamp there is only the choice to turn it on and off but not select what brightness level i would want to set it to. This is also missing.
This is an example of what i want to do in an automation:
A button is pressed on a remote, that should trigger a lamp to turn on. But i cant find the button pressed any more.
Please provide a, properly-formatted, example automation configuration of what you mean as well as any related log errors or debug traces you have from failed runs of the automations.
No, but some devices may now provide event entities instead of button entities.
Some things to try:
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Check the Device summary for each of you devices to see if they now include event entities. If they do, you can use the “Event Received” trigger. ZHA hasn’t fully incorporated event entities yet, so this likely won’t be an option for you.
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If your device has neither event nor button entities, you can try using a Device trigger (as shown in the linked thread).
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Finally, if the Device trigger does not list any of the desired trigger events, then you may have to go old-school and use a Manual Event trigger.
I am sorry I do not understand. I am using the same remotes and devices that I used previously in a little older version of Home assistant where I was able to created automations with triggers that were called something like “up button pressed” or “dim down pressed”. Now those triggers are not visible since I installed the latest version of Home assistant and added the remotes.
I can not provide a yaml of my automation because i never get so far as to make one, and the triggers are not available. Sorry for not understanding. Ive been using Home assistant for years but only updated to some version in august 2025 so major changes must have happened after that.
It is very hard to help if you can’t provide details… without more information we can’t tell if the source of your issue is just misunderstanding the new Trigger selector, an integration issue, or a device issue.
Did you check the device summary for event or button entities…?
Did you try a Device trigger…?
Thank you so much! When I type Device and select my remotes i see all the triggers like “turn on oressed”. You made my day!
