# Fire Event
Fire an event to Home Assistants event bus
# Configuration
# Event required
- Type:
string
Event name to fire
# data
- Type:
Object
JSON object to pass along
# Inputs
If the incoming message has a payload property with event set it will override any config values if set.
If the incoming message has a payload.data that is an object or parsable into an object these properties will be merged with any config values set.
If the node has a property value in its config for Merge Context then the flow and global contexts will
be checked for this property which should be an object that will also be merged
into the data payload.
# payload.event
- Type:
string
Event to fire
# payload.data
- Type:
Object
Event data to send
# Outputs
# payload.event_type
- Type:
string
Event Type that was fired
# payload.data
- Type:
Object
The event data sent if one was used