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Adding support for Home Assistant event entity
Describe the problem you have/What new integration you would like
The Event entity was introduced in Home Assistant 2023.8. ESPhome should introduce support for this type of entity
Please describe your use case for this integration and alternatives you've tried:
The doorbell is a good example. I am currently operating it as a binary_sensor with the PRESENCE class, and the event is dedicated to this type of device.
Additional context
Home Assistant documentation:
- Integration: https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/event/
- Developer: https://developers.home-assistant.io/docs/core/entity/event/
Thinking along with https://github.com/esphome/feature-requests/issues/2282, all components supporting interrupts, should support configuring event entities.
No button events in ESP Home yet ? I would like to fire some events on a button press like e.g 'Single Click' 'Double Click' 'Long Click' This could become very handy since my entire house uses ESP Home to read all buttons for the lights. Currently I have some magic in a blueprint in order to determine the click type (single double, ....) of a binary sensor. But since this feels rather trickery, it would be well received to have these events implemented.
I got inspired by the shelly integration since smart switches with a push button as input, will use the event entity to report "single push", "double push", ...
Same goes for my Philips Hue remote.
Kind regards, Robbe
For now the only known workaround to me is to use binary sensors. Obviously you create a lot of redundant yaml code and chattery in the event bus.
Yup, I completely agree that is is needed. Currently the only events that are natively sent are "pressed" and "released" as state changes for each binary sensor (as far as I understand the problem)
It would be so useful to be able to neatly send "double_clicked" and others into HA's events-list without creating lots of other bloating binary sensors.
(A screenshot of the logbook mock how it should look like)
Can't believe this is actually happening => https://github.com/esphome/esphome/pull/6451 @nohat, thank you for all these efforts, I hope this can get merged soon.