WTH: in an automation be able to trigger a trigger

[blindguynar (Jeremy Tingler)]

I want to right click on a trigger and choose to trigger it similar to how i can choise to run an action in the actions area. This is for testing purposes of the rest of the automation.

[jeffcrum]

So, the trigger is …
‘something state’ > 51

Whatcha gonna trigger for testing with a click? Didjya go to Developer Tools | State and set it?

What if the trigger is …

trigger: state
entity_id:
  - lock.back_door_lock
  - lock.front_door_lock
  - lock.basement_door_lock
to: unavailable

What does the ‘right click’ do?

Or, if the triggers are:

triggers:
  - trigger: state
    entity_id:
      - cover.big_garage_door
      - cover.small_garage_door
    for:
      hours: 0
      minutes: 0
      seconds: 5
    to: closed
    id: closed
  - trigger: state
    entity_id:
      - cover.big_garage_door
      - cover.small_garage_door
    for:
      hours: 0
      minutes: 0
      seconds: 5
    to: open
    id: open
  - trigger: state
    entity_id:
      - input_boolean.notify_garage_open
    to: "off"
    id: "off"

What are you expecting the ‘right click trigger’ to do?

[Jon123 (Jon)]

I think this may be a duplicate?

WTH I can’t test the trigger of the automation?

When building an automation with many triggers I would like to simulate / test how it runs on specific trigger to see how the automation will flow through multiple “choose”. Now I have to go to Developer tools, find the entity and change it’s value so the trigger in automation is evaluated and starts the automation. But that can trigger also other automations which I don’t want and also it’s recorded to history. And it’s time consuming because on phone in the app (which is where I love to creat…

[Pronown (sudoxnym)]

this is built in on a different page. use the set state feature in developer tools on a separate window and you can watch your automation trigger and then trace it… too many variables for a button, which is why you type it in in the dev tools.