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?