WTH Trigger on state updates without state changes

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WTH are event entities not triggered a second time when using the attribute `event_type` in a state trigger?

The new event entities are meant to replace old school event triggers (and Z2M sensor’s). The problem is, the features are not 1 to 1. Old school events will always trigger when an event occurs, same with the legacy event sensors in z2m. The new event entities do not support this functionality though. If the same event comes through a second time, the event is essentially ignored because the event_type attribute does not change. It’s also not clear to users how to get around this issue. Yo…

I’m also for this proposal. I don’t see event entities going anywhere if they don’t become less cumbersome.