Custom Events in Home Assistant
Looking for a quick and easy way to fire custom events and subscribe to them in Home Assistant? Check out the following code…
Home Assistant Custom Events
The following two automations shows you how you can raise an event with [additional] data and catch that event and the corresponding data.
automation:
- alias: Fire Event
trigger:
platform: state
entity_id: switch.kitchen
action:
event: my_test_event
event_data:
foo: "bar"
- alias: Capture Event
trigger:
platform: event
event_type: my_test_event
action:
- service: script.notify_me
data_template:
message: "Test Event Captured with data foo: {{ trigger.event.data.foo }}"
