Basic set and binary sensor report

Configuration Z-Wave
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I’ve bought a couple Monoprice Z-wave garage door tilt sensors. Each device creates a binary sensor in HA but the binary sensors never change state. It also creates an “alarm_level” sensor which is either 0 or 255 depending on the tilt position. If I understand correctly, this means the sensor is sending a “basic set” value when the sensor trips. I’ve got other sensors that do this also. I’ve seen references to changing some devices to a “binary sensor report”. Is this what would make the binary sensor work as expected? I’m not finding a setting in the the Hassio Zwave config section that would change this for the garage door sensors. Is this device dependent?

So what’s the best way to handle this if I want a binary sensor? Do I just create a new one based on the value of the alarm level and ignore the ones created by the device?

2

Did you ever find a solution to using the created binary sensors? I ended up creating new ones and naming the automatically created ones “do_not_use”

3

Sadly, no I did not. I seem to get different results from different types of devices. Sometimes the built-in binary sensor works, sometimes it doesn’t. When it does not, I have to create a separate binary sensor based on some other attribute of the device.

4

Are you referring to the Monoprice 11987 (aka Vision ZG8101)?