"Triggered by" In Automation Context

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Hello!

I have a generic thermostat hooked up to a switch and thermostat in each room. I would like the button on the thermostat to turn off/on the generic thermostat. However, I also want to be able to control the thermostat from my phone.

Ideally, I would be able to find out what changed the state of the switch, check if it was done with a manual change to the switch, and then update the climate entity. In the Lovelace UI, it tells exactly what triggered the change, so I assumed this was possible.

However, the context of the trigger doesn’t provide the platform that triggered the change. I did search around the forums and found a bunch of people talking about the using the user_id of the context to determine if it was done by manual change or not. However, changes in Homekit also register with no user_id. So I wouldn’t be able to determine if HomeKit switched it off or a manual button press.

Here is an example of the trigger context from a switch done via the climate entity in the lovelace ui:

variables:
  trigger:
    id: "0"
    idx: "0"
    alias: null
    platform: state
    entity_id: switch.office_heater_switch
    from_state:
      entity_id: switch.office_heater_switch
      state: "on"
      attributes:
        friendly_name: Office Heater Switch
      last_changed: "2022-12-20T17:03:43.256959+00:00"
      last_updated: "2022-12-20T17:03:43.256959+00:00"
      context:
        id: 01GMR7VDMRC0T8HS8WZN8N2SW0
        parent_id: null
        user_id: null
    to_state:
      entity_id: switch.office_heater_switch
      state: "off"
      attributes:
        friendly_name: Office Heater Switch
      last_changed: "2022-12-20T17:04:39.300917+00:00"
      last_updated: "2022-12-20T17:04:39.300917+00:00"
      context:
        id: 01GMR7X495NVMZK3SZBZ39GHQV
        parent_id: null
        user_id: <REDACTED>
    for: null
    attribute: null
    description: state of switch.office_heater_switch
context:
  id: 01GMR7X495NVMZK3SZBZ39GHQV
  parent_id: null
  user_id: <REDACTED>

And here is what it looks like if triggered by homekit or with a manual button press:

variables:
  trigger:
    id: "0"
    idx: "0"
    alias: null
    platform: state
    entity_id: switch.office_heater_switch
    from_state:
      entity_id: switch.office_heater_switch
      state: "off"
      attributes:
        friendly_name: Office Heater Switch
      last_changed: "2022-12-20T17:04:39.300917+00:00"
      last_updated: "2022-12-20T17:04:39.300917+00:00"
      context:
        id: 01GMR7X495NVMZK3SZBZ39GHQV
        parent_id: null
        user_id: 376150e426224c31926af03641ae2490
    to_state:
      entity_id: switch.office_heater_switch
      state: "on"
      attributes:
        friendly_name: Office Heater Switch
      last_changed: "2022-12-20T17:05:14.385719+00:00"
      last_updated: "2022-12-20T17:05:14.385719+00:00"
      context:
        id: 01GMR7Y6MHS6KQ5WFFRRWYMEGX
        parent_id: null
        user_id: null
    for: null
    attribute: null
    description: state of switch.office_heater_switch
context:
  id: 01GMR7Y6MHS6KQ5WFFRRWYMEGX
  parent_id: null
  user_id: null

The User ID is “null” in both situations so I can’t use that.

I was hoping someone might have an idea.

Also, why would the context not contain the platform that triggered it if Home Assistant is already gathering that information?