How to get state of automation triggers?

[DennisGaida]

I am using Home Assistant MQTT device triggers such as explained here: https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/device_trigger.mqtt/

I can create HA-automations using these triggers, i.e. I can select these MQTT device triggers when creating/modifying a HA automation and it works flawlessly.

I don't know how to "catch" these automation triggers in Node-Red using this integration. The state of the entity doesn't seem to change. I also don't quite understand these automation triggers, just know that they work in HA and are the "best practice" to use right now. I actually tried finding the event using the events: all action, but that only showed my automation that uses the trigger, not the trigger itself.

Is there any way to use or read these HA automation triggers from Node-RED with this integration?

[zachowj]

https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/device_trigger.mqtt/#left-arrow-click-configuration

Using the above example wouldn't you use an MQTT node to listen on zigbee2mqtt/0x90fd9ffffedf1266/action?

[DennisGaida]

Oh yes, of course I could use an MQTT node in Node-Red. I‘m wondering whether I can make use of this integration - using homeassistant.

[zachowj]

If you install the Node-RED companion component in HA. You can use the device node for device triggers.

[DennisGaida]

device trigger! thank you! I had pretty much tried all actions like events: all, events: state, current state, trigger: state... haven't tried device.