All set up and connected - How to setup buttons/switches

[Apok1]

Hi,

In short - how the heck do I make pressing a button on my TS0043 do a thing, like turn a S26R2ZB to ON?!

A while ago I setup Home assistant on a pi3B+. I used ZHA as it was there and got everything set up very easily, I could set pressing/double clicking any button to toggle,/turnon etc any other device by (using device/automations in HA). However the TS0043 light switch battery dies after 3-4 weeks and is not very responsive either.

Under advise I have added a USB extension, removed ZHA completely and installed zigbee2mqtt + Mosquitto broker. They work fine, all devices connected and showing in the HA devices. I can add them to a HA dashboard and turn them on and off. I love that I can see the LQI and have even discovered a dead-ish behind an old chimney zone - great!

What I cannot do is set the button clicks to trigger the same actions as before. Going to the device/automations in HA i only have "3_single" action as a trigger under that device, not each button option as before (1_single, 1_double, 1_hold, 2_single, 2_double, 2_hold, 3_single, 3_double, 3_hold).

I see binding as an option under the zigbee2mqtt web ui, but this seems to relate to clusters (?) which I see mapped (copy below) - this doesn't seem to be what I want.

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Endpoint 1
Output clusters
genOta
genTime
Input clusters
genBasic
genPowerCfg
genOnOff
Endpoint 2
Input clusters
genPowerCfg
genOnOff
Endpoint 3
Input clusters
genPowerCfg
genOnOff

I read the support device page and can see the actions I want, but no way to configure them.

I have read through the zigbee2mqtt guide again and found this;
https://www.zigbee2mqtt.io/guide/usage/integrations/home_assistant.html#customizing-discovery

But that leads you off to this in HA
https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/device_trigger.mqtt/

Which leads me off to this...
https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/button.mqtt/

I can see there is a MQTT option in the HA/Device/Automations asking for 'topics' (?). I found a page on topics, which seems to assume you already know all about them - https://www.zigbee2mqtt.io/guide/usage/mqtt_topics_and_messages.html.

After all this I am no further to knowing what I should do and I'm feeling a bit like Alice, tumbling down the rabbit hole - am I zoning in on the solution off way off the beaten path? I see other posts about connections, seem you are writing the commands, do I need to do this if using HA? Where does it go and what is the syntax?

I would appreciate any assistance, I'm learning as I go here, but this is still all new to me and I feel like I might have missed something obvious.

Many Thanks,

[forsberg72]

I have just this same feeling. How to define button actions? I have a dimmer switch and two Ikea Troådfri on/off buttons. I would like to know how to define actions for buttons. I think there's no good documentation.

[Apok1]

Hi, my issue was the button options were not showing up. not sure that is the same but to any one who wants it, my solution was:

1. Press the actual buttons you want to use, this somehow remind the device it has the buttons, I could then go to the device/automations in HA and set the automations.
2. One button would still not appear, i tried some things but it was only after going back the next day it suddenly showed - give it some time

Is your issue more about generally setting automations or that the specifc buttons do not show within the automations section? If it's the latter check this guy out

Hope that helps