Aqara window sensor displays `on` instead of `Open`

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Hi there,

On my lovelace UI, there are two things that I’d like to change:

  1. For the device_tracker it displays home or not_home. I would like it to show Home and Not Home in the selected language (currently it’s the same for all languages)
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  2. My xiaomi aqara door/window sensors show me on and off instead of Open and Closed.
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    In the detailed view it shows me the history of open and closed, but the status is on.
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How can I change the sensors to show the right value?

2

You need to customize the entity with an opening device class. When the entity is ‘on’ it will show as open and vice-versa.

3

Look under DEVICE CLASS

4

Hi,
Good question!
You could use a template to create new sensors of each sensor for which you like to change the state names, see my example below:

sensor:
  - platform: template
    sensors:
      wall_switch_left:
        value_template: >-
          {% if is_state('binary_sensor.wall_switch_left_158d00027c19e9','off') %}
             SOMETHING
          {% else %} 
             SOMETHINGSELSE
          {% endif %}
      wall_switch_right:
        value_template: >-
          {% if is_state('binary_sensor.wall_switch_right_158d00027c19e9','on') %}
             SOMETHING
          {% else %}
              SOMETHINGSELSE
          {% endif %}

My initial binary sensors (binary_sensor.wall_switch_left_158d00027c19e9 and binary_sensor.wall_switch_rigth_158d00027c19e9) have either the state on or off.

The template creates two new sensors (wall_switch_left and wall_switch_right) which can either have the state SOMETHING and SOMETHINGSELSE.

You can use those in your lovelace.yaml like this:

title: My Awesome Home
views:
  - icon: mdi:home-assistant
    title: Second view
    background: radial-gradient(crimson, skyblue)
    cards:
      - type: entities
        title: Woonkamer
        entities:
          - sensor.wall_switch_left
          - sensor.wall_switch_right

Then you get this:

template

B.t.w. Did you know Home assistant supports lots of languages. If you change the language (for example to German) in the GUI (account settings) the statuses of a binairy sensors will change in an and aus.

I hope this is helpful!

5

Weird, I’ve kind of the same question. Is this changed in 0.84? In 0.83 I was getting the “friendly names” already… after updating open/closed is changed to on/off for example with the door sensors…

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It’s a bug! See: https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant-polymer/issues/2354, the “friendly names” should be visible by default. Probably fixed in the next release 0.84.4 with this PR: https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant-polymer/pull/2356

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