ZIgbee wall switch with controllable light

Hardware
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I have now purchased 2 zigbee switches to use as a remote to switch my water heater on from another room

Sadly, neither shows up as a controllable device where i can have HA update the light when the water heater switch is on (via some other means)
Nor are they listed in Node Red as Entity (eg in the event:all, event:state: or trigger:state nodes

Both seem to only be usable as trigger for an automation

Are there any (battery operated (CR2032 or AAA) wall switches (1 or 2-gang) which can act as a. proper entity, ie I can

  • distinguish the buttons and trigger based on then in Node-Red)
  • have some automation/No-Red node update their button lights (or have them automatically mirror the light status of my 220v Möve wall switch which directly controls the water heater)?

Any suggestion welcome

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Hi, which light?
Are you referring to the card icon on your dashboard?

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I am referring to the actual LED light on the physical (bettery operated) switch, which should mimc the status of the water heater (switch), which has its own LED but is located in a different location.

I am aware that a battery operated switch with LED which may be on for hours a day may have higher usage, but where i want to install that there is no external power I could use

and by ‘switch’ i mean not a device that switches a circuit, but a paddle switch to activate some automations. I think ‘button’ would be the wrong term. Is there a better one to distinguish this from an actual electric switch (relais/relay)?

(that said, I would also be interested in such a button/,… which takes 220V external power and thus would not have the battery-drain issues, but for this application I need a battery operated one)

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All battery powered Zigbee buttons / remote controls I know of are pretty much “one way traffic”: they send a signal when you push a button, but they don’t have any means to report state back. When they do have a LED, that’s usually only used to indicated that a signal has been sent.

Actually, this also goes for the mains-powered Zigbee buttons that I know of. But, using the Zigbee2MQTT device database, you can search for what entities are exposed by different devices. I see some devices expose things like indicator or led_indicator. Glancing over those docs, it seems for some of those devices it would be possible to set the indicator light independent of the switch itself.