Fire Event

home_assistant.fire_event

ActionBusiness appsconnection required

Calls the Home Assistant API with the connection's credentials.

Fire an event on the Home Assistant event bus.

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Connection

Required: Yes — the node will not save without one
Auth type: Bearer token
Providers: Home Assistant
Secret shape: the long-lived access token, or {"access_token": "…"}
Config it needs: base_url
Resolved by: config.connection_id, else node.connection_id

Configuration

2 fields, 1 required. A dotted path is a nested object and name[] an array of objects — the editor renders the same tree.

Field	Type	Required	Default	Constraints	Example
event_type The event type to fire, for example 'mantle_deploy_finished'.	string	Yes	—	—	mantle_deploy_finished
event_data The event data as a JSON object; automations read it as trigger.event.data.	object	No	—	—	{"status":"ok"}

Example configuration

Every value below is the contract’s own example or default — nothing invented.

{
  "event_data": {
    "status": "ok"
  },
  "event_type": "mantle_deploy_finished"
}

Output

One shape.

result

Field	Type	Example
event_type The event type that was fired.	string	—
fired True — Home Assistant accepted the event.	boolean	—
message Home Assistant's own confirmation message.	string	—

{
  "event_type": "",
  "fired": false,
  "message": ""
}

Related Home Assistant nodes

See Fire Event run in a workflow.

In a technical demo we add the Home Assistant connection, drop the node on the canvas and let Workflow Health pre-flight it before the first real run.

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