Double Click Physical Buttons - New Feature

[rudgej]

The buttons currently support press and long press.

I uses these for scene section ( Off / Room Low/ Room Mid / Room Hi) across all panels and rarely use the actual display.

Could this be expended to allow for double click, and whilst you are at it triple click?

Double click for me would be blinds open / close and triple click would be air con on/off.

The displays are great but for most actions standard button presses across all panels is simpler for everyone in the house.

[deejaybeam]

https://github.com/Blackymas/NSPanel_HA_Blueprint/issues/259

[rudgej]

Ok thank you - so the answer is no but there is a work around if I can figure it out!

[edwardtfn]

As you can see in the discussion pointed by @deejaybeam, it's a bit hard to find the one solution which fits all on this, but you probably can achieve this as a customization to your system without big effort.

One example to send a command to toggle a blind with a double click on left button will be like this:

binary_sensor:
  - id: !extend left_button
    on_multi_click:
      #Double Click
      - timing:
          - ON for at most 0.5s
          - OFF for at most 0.3s
          - ON for at most 0.5s
          - OFF for at least 0.2s
        then:
          - script.execute:
              id: ha_call_service
              service: "cover.toggle"
              entity: "cover.the_cover_to_toggle"
              key: ""
              value: ""

I haven't tested, but please let me know if you have issues implementing this and I probably can help a bit.

[edwardtfn]

@rudgej, have you had a chance to try the customization I've proposed?

Should we close this?

[rudgej]

I am so sorry for my slow reply. I just did this and it worked - thank you.

I assume to customise for a light I could do

service: "cover.toggle"

service: "light.toggle"

service: "Light.off"

Etc

[rudgej]

I tried to add another one for the right button but I got a duplicate error

The code and reply is below

How do I allow a second action please?

INFO ESPHome 2023.11.6 INFO Reading configuration /config/esphome/topstairsfirst.yaml... ERROR Error while reading config: Invalid YAML syntax:

Duplicate key "binary_sensor" in "/config/esphome/topstairsfirst.yaml", line 48, column 1: binary_sensor: ^ NOTE: Previous declaration here: in "/config/esphome/topstairsfirst.yaml", line 31, column 1: binary_sensor: ^

binary_sensor:

• id: !extend right_button on_multi_click:

  Double Click

  • timing:
    • ON for at most 0.5s
    • OFF for at most 0.3s
    • ON for at most 0.5s
    • OFF for at least 0.2s then:
    • script.execute: id: ha_call_service service: "cover.toggle" entity: "cover.landing_dimout" key: "" value: ""

binary_sensor:

• id: !extend left_button on_multi_click:

  Double Click

  • timing:
    • ON for at most 0.5s
    • OFF for at most 0.3s
    • ON for at most 0.5s
    • OFF for at least 0.2s then:
    • script.execute: id: ha_call_service service: "cover.toggle" entity: "cover.landing_blackout" key: "" value: ""

[edwardtfn]

Do you wanna have two actions executed when you double click?

[edwardtfn]

Please try this:

binary_sensor:
  - id: !extend left_button
    on_multi_click:
      #Double Click
      - timing:
          - ON for at most 0.5s
          - OFF for at most 0.3s
          - ON for at most 0.5s
          - OFF for at least 0.2s
        then:
          - script.execute:
              id: ha_call_service
              service: "cover.toggle"
              entity: "cover.landing_dimout"
              key: ""
              value: ""
          - script.execute:
              id: ha_call_service
              service: "cover.toggle"
              entity: "cover.landing_blackout"
              key: ""
              value: ""

[edwardtfn]

I assume to customise for a light I could do service: "cover.toggle" service: "light.toggle" service: "Light.off" Etc

Yes! Is should work in most of those services.0, however, that is using an implementation of a service call used by this Blueprint (which will be executing it).

Maybe you should use the native service call:

binary_sensor:
  - id: !extend left_button
    on_multi_click:
      #Double Click
      - timing:
          - ON for at most 0.5s
          - OFF for at most 0.3s
          - ON for at most 0.5s
          - OFF for at least 0.2s
        then:
          - homeassistant.service:
              service: cover.toggle
              data:
                entity_id: cover.landing_dimout
          - homeassistant.service:
              service: cover.toggle
              data:
                entity_id: cover.landing_blackout

It's probably less resources dependant and easier to read the code. 😉

[rudgej]

Thank you - the aim was to have a function for the right hand button also - hence I assumed I could just duplicate it and change left to right. Clearly not!

[edwardtfn]

Try this:

binary_sensor:
  - id: !extend left_button
    on_multi_click:
      #Double Click
      - timing: &hw_btn_double_click
          - ON for at most 0.5s
          - OFF for at most 0.3s
          - ON for at most 0.5s
          - OFF for at least 0.2s
        then:
          - homeassistant.service:
              service: cover.toggle
              data:
                entity_id: cover.landing_blackout

  - id: !extend right_button
    on_multi_click:
      #Double Click
      - timing: *hw_btn_double_click
        then:
          - homeassistant.service:
              service: cover.toggle
              data:
                entity_id: cover.landing_dimout

[rudgej]

Thank you.

The double function works as intended but the unintended consequence is is is also recognising a single click at the sure

The left click on my system is Lights OFF - so I suspect when I last tested it they were indeed off so the issue was not highlighted.

To stop this then I assume a single click would need to be edited so that it was more than 0.5s in which case this script would win.

Is there are way of changing the single click time in the script please?

Thank you

[edwardtfn]

Is there are way of changing the single click time in the script please?

That is probably a bit harder, and will also come with consequences... As mentioned in #259, this will require the one click function to wait longer and make sure a second click didn't come, driving to a less responsive system.

[edwardtfn]

You can, however, don't assign anything to your button, then control the clicks in your own automatiin on Home Assistant. You have the button ststus as a sensor, so it's all you need. 😉 If you wanna keep the blue bar indicating status on Home Assistant, assign a helper to that, so you also control that helper from Home Assistant side.