svc2evnt

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A Home Assistant integration that implements a simple way of triggering a generic event through a service call.

Installation

The integration can be installed from HACS or by copying the files under custom_components into the config directory.

Configuration

To use the component you will need to add the following to your configuration.yaml file.

The component has no configuration options.

svc2evnt:

Usage

Name	Type	Requried	Supported options	Description
action	string	yes	call-service	Action to perform
service	string	yes	svc2evnt.fire_event	Service to call
service_data	string	yes	Se below

Service data

Name	Type	Requried	Supported options	Description
event_type	string	yes	Any event type, ex custom_event	Event type
data	string	yes		Any data to send with event

Example

This example uses the custom component "button-card"

Send a custom event with event type custom_event and with data domain: media and id: playpause.

  type: 'custom:button-card'
  tap_action:
    action: call-service
    service: svc2evnt.fire_event
    service_data:
      event_type: custom_event
      data:
        domain: media
        id: playpause
  show_icon: true
  icon: 'mdi:play-pause'