Visual Trigger Editor like in Switch Manager Integration

[Strizzi74]

Describe the feature

Currently there is a HACS integration which has a large number of users and is featured in many HA youtube channels:
Switch Manager (https://github.com/Sian-Lee-SA/Home-Assistant-Switch-Manager)
Actually it's more an independent automation editor than an integration (so i am raising this feature request here).

Switch Manager seems no longer maintained and lacks of some major adaptions due to HA core updates 2025.10 and later.

In fact the solution currently provides 2 main features which i would suggest to add to the HA core automation editor:

• Visual assignment of the automation steps to the physical button events of the switch
• Blueprints for easily creating definitions for new devices (without programming knowledge)

It would be nice to see this functionality integrated into the HA core automation editor,
so you have both, the full power of the new HA automation editor functions and the visual assignment of the triggers to your different switches and their different button events.

I would suggest to place it somewhere in the trigger part of the editor, so you can select your switch device/entity there and the editor automatically creates trigger IDs to the different button events (once, twice, triple press, long press). Optionally the editor could automatically generate an option select case for the different IDs so you just have to create the action steps and you are all set.

The ability to easily provide own switch blueprints should be also adopted, so users without any programming knowledge can easily create a blueprint for a new switch device, you just have to discover the event that gets fired when a button is pressed.

Use cases

Usecase is when you have plenty of switches or remotes placed in your home and you want to assign functions to all of their button actions. This will usually bloat your list of automations and it's also hard to debug and monitor.

A Visual Editor feature for triggers would let you have only one automation for each switch, regardless of the number of press events. A scene switch with 4 buttons can have 12 events or more (single, double, tripple press, long press, release,...) depending on the device.
Currently the switch manager integration highlights the button event item when the button is pressed physically, so it's easy to identify.

Defining Actions for your scene buttons, remotes, etc. is one of the first actions that new HA users will need in a new HA setup scenario.
That usually leads to dozens of automations with only one or a few steps leaving them in a mess of automations.

Current workarounds

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Anything else?

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