Aqara tilt sensor tracking garage door zigbee2mqtt

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Hey everyone,

I am attempting to use an Aqara Tilt Sensor to track when my garage door opens and closes. I would like to have a separate entity (aka binary_sensor) that has the current state of the Garage Door (Open, Closed).

How do I go about creating a trigger event (for zigbee2mqtt) so that when the Tilt sensor z state > X my binary_sensor sets itself to Open and when its <= X it set itself to closed?

I can find various posts on how to do this with ZHA, but not with zigbee2mqtt.

I know there is probably a couple different options here, I have tried a few , but haven’t been able to get it working yet.

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When you say ‘tilt sensor’ are you referring to the Aqara Vibration Sensor (DJT11LM) which is only useful as a tilt sensor?

Did you see the example for the trigger in this thread?

I tried to use the tilt functionality to detect, if my garage door is open, opening, closing, or closed but did not react quickly enough for my use case.

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Yes, the DJT11LM. That example looks just about what I want, but the “action” I want that numeric_state to do is set another entity to Open or Closed. So for example I can create a card on the homepage to view the garage status at all times.

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Template binary_sensor triggered by the Z2M event?

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So, you create the ‘other entity’ as a helper, e.g. a binary sensor/toggle, and use the trigger to switch it on and off. You can then display the binary_sensor e.g. in a glance card that can automatically color the icon according to the on/off/ status.

Or you can use a template to define a binary sensor to achieve the status change and then show the state in a card - this is how I show it in a custom button card:

type: custom:button-card
show_entity_picture: true
state:
  - value: Open
    icon: mdi:garage-open
    color: red
  - value: Closed
    icon: mdi:garage-lock
    color: green
  - value: Opening
    icon: mdi:garage-alert
    color: orange
  - value: Closing
    icon: mdi:garage-alert
    color: orange
tap_action:
  action: call-service
  service: input_text.set_value
  data:
    value: Closed
  target:
    entity_id: input_text.garage_door_status
entity: input_text.garage_door_status
show_state: false
show_label: true
name: Garage is
size: 40%
label: |
  [[[
    if (states['input_text.garage_door_status'].state === "Closed")
      return "closed";
    else if (states['input_text.garage_door_status'].state === "Opening")
      return "opening";
    else if (states['input_text.garage_door_status'].state === "Closing")
      return "closing";
    else if (states['input_text.garage_door_status'].state === "Open")
      return "open";
  ]]]

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Note that the last bit for the label is only to convert the upper case state info to the lower case in the button - mine is obviously NOT a real binary sensor because I want/need to show the opening and closing states as well.