WTH can't we easily create an entity out of an event?

Archive Month of "What the heck?!" (2020)
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If would be amazing to be able to trap an event and create an entity out of it, such as a Zigbee button. Currently adding a button tends to create an entity for it’s battery but nothing for the button press.
How hard would it be for HA to detect the button press and automatically create a boolean with say a 1s back to off time!
I want to be able to reference the boolean (switch) in Nodered without resorting to automations within HA…

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All of my Zigbee buttons had a binary_sensor created when added to HA… not sure where you are going with this

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Sonoff Zigbee button (Little square white one) when linked to the new Sonoff Zigbee USB stick only registered as a battery, no binary sensor. Apparently you can ‘sniff’ the button presses as an event, but I’ve no idea how to turn this into an actual binary variable that I can then use in NodeRed for automations…?

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Can you not use events in node red directly? I don’t use node red, but I would be more than sjrprised if node red wouldn’t support this.

FWIW, In my opinion its better to work with events for stateless switches.

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I use node red and trigger flows from events from xiaomi zigbee wall buttons/switches.

Check out the node red HA event node.

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How do I find the event type name?

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Go to Developer Tools->Events -> in the “Listen to events” enter * and press “START LISTENING”. Now press a button on the remote and you should see the event type, data etc.

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Could this be considered a duplicate of WTH don’t we have Event Binary Sensors

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Hi,
Did as you said and got the below:

{
    "event_type": "zha_event",
    "data": {
        "device_ieee": "00:12:4b:00:1f:67:45:ec",
        "unique_id": "00:12:4b:00:1f:67:45:ec:1:0x0006",
        "endpoint_id": 1,
        "cluster_id": 6,
        "command": "on",
        "args": []
    },
    "origin": "LOCAL",
    "time_fired": "2020-08-27T10:40:09.498730+00:00",
    "context": {
        "id": "adda6812e85111eab44f85b73d831132",
        "parent_id": null,
        "user_id": null
    }
}

How do I pull an id from this to use in NodeRed?

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Duplicate of

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