When the “events: state” node “hears” the state change for the Helper Button Entity (when the Dashboard Button is clicked), it sends the payload to the next node in your Node Red flow.Ħ. Once the “events: state” node is set up, it will hear the fact that your Dashboard Button has been clicked and its state changed (i.e., when the Helper Button Entity records the time the Dashboard Button was clicked as the state of the entity).ĥ. The server is “Home Assistant”, the entity is your Helper Button Entity, the msg.payload output property is the information you want the “events: state” node to pass to the next node in your Node Red flow.Ĥ. The first node in the flow is the “events: state” node. When the Dashboard Button is clicked, the state of the Helper Button Entity changes to the new/current time of the click, and the Node-Red “events: state” node hears that state change.ģ. The link between the Dashboard Button/Helper Button Entity and your Node-Red flow is the “events: state” node.Ģ. Each time it is clicked, the “state” changes.ġ. The only thing the Dashboard button does is record the time it is clicked. The Helper Button is now linked with your Dashboard Button.Ħ. Click done to finishing editing your Dashboard.ĥ. Your Dashboard button should now be complete and show up on your Dashboard. There are three option switches for the Dashboard Button. Set up the Dashboard Button by selecting the Helper Button entity you created above (using your helper button Entity ID) and give the Dashboard Button a name.ģ. Click “Create” to finish creating the Helper Button.ġ. Choose the Button type Helper and give it a meaningful name. Go to Settings > Devices & Services > Helpers > Create Helper.Ģ.
Create a Helper Button in Lovelace of Home Assistant using the Helpers config UI.ġ.
I wanted to summarize this process I used with the steps to go from nothing to triggering a node in node-red because there is a lot of confusing information that comes up when searching for this topic on the internet.Ī.
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