ikea-bilresa-scroll-wheel.yaml

blueprint:
  name: "IKEA Bilresa – Live & Unlocked (Custom)"
  description: "Requires modified event.py! Triggers on every 'multi_press_ongoing' event to provide smooth, unlimited scrolling."
  domain: automation
  input:
    scrollwheel_right_event_entity:
      name: "Scroll Wheel – Right (Button 1)"
      description: "Entity that fires when rotating right"
      selector:
        entity:
          domain: event
    
    scrollwheel_left_event_entity:
      name: "Scroll Wheel – Left (Button 2)"
      description: "Entity that fires when rotating left"
      selector:
        entity:
          domain: event
    
    target_light:
      name: "Target Light"
      selector:
        entity:
          domain: light
    
    step_percentage:
      name: "Brightness Step per Tick (%)"
      description: "Amount to change brightness for every detected rotation tick."
      default: 5
      selector:
        number:
          min: 1
          max: 20

trigger:
  # With force_update=True, this triggers on every packet received
  - platform: state
    entity_id: !input scrollwheel_right_event_entity
    id: "right"
  
  - platform: state
    entity_id: !input scrollwheel_left_event_entity
    id: "left"

condition:
  # This is the magic check. It only works because you modified event.py
  # to allow "multi_press_ongoing" through.
  - condition: template
    value_template: "{{ trigger.to_state.attributes.event_type == 'multi_press_ongoing' }}"

action:
  - variables:
      step: !input step_percentage
      is_right: "{{ trigger.id == 'right' }}"
      
      # Direction Logic: Right = +1 (Brighten), Left = -1 (Dim)
      # (You can swap the 1 and -1 below if your wheel is inverted)
      direction_sign: "{{ 1 if is_right else -1 }}"
      
      final_change: "{{ step * direction_sign }}"

  # Apply the change
  - if:
      - condition: state
        entity_id: !input target_light
        state: "on"
    then:
      - service: light.turn_on
        target:
          entity_id: !input target_light
        data:
          brightness_step_pct: "{{ final_change }}"
    else:
      # If light is OFF, only turn ON if we are brightening (Right)
      - if:
          - condition: template
            value_template: "{{ direction_sign > 0 }}"
        then:
          - service: light.turn_on
            target:
              entity_id: !input target_light
            data:
              brightness_pct: "{{ step }}"

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