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As I have been messing around with this for a bit and found it rather hard to fin proper and complete information on to do, I figured post something here.
So the idea is that I want a button on my Dashboard which triggers a flow in Node-RED.
I've seen many options by now, but this one made the most sense to me and was very easy to implement.
Step 1 - Make a helper button
Step 2 - Add a button card to your dashboard
** I used a simple button card for testing, you can obviously use whatever card you think is suitable.
Step 3 - Create a flow in Node-RED that responds to clicking your button
Sounds complicated, but it really isn't once you know what you need (as often is the case).
** If you cannot find the name of your helper button, then you may need to restart Home Assistant.
Maybe a bug in my setup, but that ended up the only effective way to get the name to show up.
No you can connect the output of this node to whatever nodes you'd like, for example a debug node to test and see if it works.
Hope this is helpful for someone - I know its a nice reference for myself now 😊
