How to automate with switch events?

[nrenner73]

Probably not an issue but more a problem with understanding switch events.

I have a f@h switch in my bathroom, that is not connected to a f@h actuator. In HA I want to have an automation that switches on a Shelly plug s to start warm water circulation. I just want to switch it on, regardless of where I press the button. Switching it off is done by a timer.

I get the switch event in HA whenever I press top or bottom of the switch, regardless of the state.
I tried implementing my automation, but with the example from the description, I can only trigger my automation whenever I have a state change.
This means when the state is off and I press on, the automation is triggered. Also when the state is on and I press off it is triggered as well.

But when the state is off and I press off, nothing happens. The same is with on state and pressing on.

Is there a way to just react to the event regardless of the state? Could you maybe point me in the right direction?

Thanks a lot!

[kingsleyadam]

A heads up, I converted this to a discussion.

[derjoerg]

Have you tried it without the `To``

trigger: state
entity_id:
  - event.sensoreinheit_1_fach_licht_dimm_ereignis_ch0000

[kingsleyadam]

Even though the documentation says to set to or from to null to record all events.

To trigger on all state changes, but not on changed attributes, set at least one of from, to, not_from, or not_to to null.

That actually doesn't seem to work for me.

This did work for me.

alias: Rocker Pressed On
description: Do something when the rocker is pressed on.
triggers:
  - trigger: event
    event_type: state_changed
    event_data:
      entity_id: event.office_rocker_switch_event_ch0000
conditions: []
actions:
  - condition: template
    value_template: "{{ trigger.event.data.new_state.attributes.event_type == \"on\" }}"
  - action: switch.turn_on
    metadata: {}
    data: {}
    target:
      entity_id: switch.3rd_floor_landing_light
mode: single

[nrenner73]

  - trigger: event
    event_type: state_changed

This works, perfect!

[nrenner73]

FYI, I just noticed a theoretical issue with above solution:
Reloading the integration also triggers the automation. Not something that happens too often, so I can live with that.