Service call light entites from HA

ESPHome
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I want to trigger HA light services. esphome compiles my yaml but nothing is happening, i guess the service call is wrong. how does it work?

I have (indentation lost by copy paste):

  • platform: touchscreen
    name: “Red Touch Area”
    id: red_touch_area
    x_min: 160 # Adjust to start from the middle of the screen
    x_max: 320 # Adjust to the screen width
    y_min: 0
    y_max: 240 # Adjust to the screen height
    on_press:
    then:
    - homeassistant.service:
    service: light.turn_off
    data:
    entity_id: light.essen

Pressing is recogized in the logs but as I said nothing happens. Finally I want to change colors, dim, etc. Is that possible?

Thanks you and cheers
Volker

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on_press:
  then:
    - homeassistant.service:
        service: "light.turn_off"
        data:
          entity_id: "light.essen"

does not work as well :o(

3

You have to enable service calls now for each esphome device. This was added in a recent update. You need to ho to devices/services - esphome - configure. You gotta check the box to enable service calls.

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4

Thanks, indeed this esp was missing (others registered (strange)! Now it’s working :slight_smile:

5

Ya, idk why they did this, i assume its for security but if you arent aware of the change it will definitely have you banging your head trying to figure out why service calls wont work.