[QUESTION] Bilresa Scrolling wheel and event integration

[swesharkie]

Question

I've tried a few things here but seem stuck regarding action_templates and nested data.
First, the setup..
The Bilresa when paired creates a hole heap of event-entities, one for the button, one for scrolling in one direction and another for scrolling the other direction multiplied by 3 for it's different modes.
It also create an equal amount of sensor-entities for momentary data (these are 1 while a thing are happening and 0 in rest. Why not a binary_sensor? I have no idea.. ..)

Right now we are focusing on button-press in mode 1 so we can ignore the others.
The event for this looks like this:

event_type: state_changed
data:
  entity_id: event.bilresa_2_mode1_press_or_hold
  old_state:
    entity_id: event.bilresa_2_mode1_press_or_hold
    state: "2026-02-17T13:51:11.049+00:00"
    attributes:
      event_types:
        - multi_press_1
        - multi_press_2
        - multi_press_3
        - long_press
        - long_release
      event_type: multi_press_1
      previousPosition: 1
      totalNumberOfPressesCounted: 1
      device_class: button
      icon: fluent:radio-button-16-filled
      friendly_name: Mode 1 - Press or Hold
    last_changed: "2026-02-17T13:51:11.049203+00:00"
    last_reported: "2026-02-17T13:51:11.049203+00:00"
    last_updated: "2026-02-17T13:51:11.049203+00:00"
    context:
      id: 01KHNXX1696MFH33AD0V0PZ5F0
      parent_id: null
      user_id: null
  new_state:
    entity_id: event.bilresa_2_mode1_press_or_hold
    state: "2026-02-17T13:51:41.309+00:00"
    attributes:
      event_types:
        - multi_press_1
        - multi_press_2
        - multi_press_3
        - long_press
        - long_release
      event_type: multi_press_1
      previousPosition: 1
      totalNumberOfPressesCounted: 1
      device_class: button
      icon: fluent:radio-button-16-filled
      friendly_name: Mode 1 - Press or Hold
    last_changed: "2026-02-17T13:51:41.309890+00:00"
    last_reported: "2026-02-17T13:51:41.309890+00:00"
    last_updated: "2026-02-17T13:51:41.309890+00:00"
    context:
      id: 01KHNXXYQXGMF44WKZ3P99RNRK
      parent_id: null
      user_id: null
origin: LOCAL
time_fired: "2026-02-17T13:51:41.309890+00:00"
context:
  id: 01KHNXXYQXGMF44WKZ3P99RNRK
  parent_id: null
  user_id: null

I'm looking at the event "state_changed" with controller_key "entity_id" and controller "event.bilresa_2_mode1_press_or_hold".

Now, the mapping in action_template..
I need to go down the nested data into "new_state" and then "attributes" and grab "event_type".
I have no issue grabbing "{new_state[entity_id]}" and then set mapping to the entity_id for toggle, it toggles the light just fine but I do need the multi_press_2 and long_press too.
However, I cannot for the life of me find any reference or figure out with trial and error the syntax for nested data. I even went through AppDaemons documentation and your source-code for hints..

I've also tried the state-integration however this controller is being weird there too.
If I map it to the event-entity I need to double-click for it to register a single-click, but that's fair, the attribute doesn't change if I do repeated single-clicks.
However, if I map it to the sensor-entities and in mapping I just map it to 1 (it flips between 1 and 0), nothing happens. I do find this odd and it will be an issue later but I haven't looked to deeply into that right now, one issue at a time :).

Additional information

• Devices involved:

  • Model: BILRESA scroll wheel (32768) as Controller

• Integration: Event

• AppDaemon version: 4.5.13

• ControllerX version: v5.0.0

• HACS version (if installed from there): 2.0.5

• Home Assistant Core version: 2026.2.2

AppDaemon app configuration

bilresa_2_test_app_event:
  module: controllerx
  class: LightController
  controller: event.bilresa_2_mode1_press_or_hold
  light: light.martins_desk_neon
  integration:
    name: event
    event_type: state_changed
    controller_key: entity_id
    action_template: ??
  mapping:
    multi_press_1: toggle

Logs

Too many logs of it not matching my attempts at templating to the event, it does however list the event in data={} so it finds it. And it works as long as I don't do nested matching. It's down to me not finding the correct syntax to match the data.
I will however provide if it's needed of course :)

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