Binary sensor state after restart

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I have just set up some door and window sensors but every time I restart HA they revert to ‘Closed’. I understand that this is expected behaviour i.e. their state is not saved in the same way as input_booleans for example.

Is there a way around this other than the horrible kludge of saving the binary sensor state into an input boolean every time it changes?

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Why would they be changing to Closed if the door/window isn’t closed? If the sensor hasn’t updated yet, it should be ‘unknown’ after restart, not ‘Closed’. Maybe you could share your sensor code.

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Thanks for looking.
The sensors are all 433MHz connected to a Tasmotized Sonoff RF Bridge.

binary_sensor:
  # Door - SensorID 01
  - platform: mqtt
    name: "Door1"
    state_topic: "tele/sonoff_rf01/RESULT"
    value_template: '{{value_json.RfReceived.Data}}'
    payload_on: "AC860A"
    payload_off: "AC860B"
    device_class: Door
    qos: 1
    retain: true

and the actual MQTT message is in the form

{"RfReceived":{"Sync":14060,"Low":460,"High":1370,"Data":"AC860A","RfKey":"None"}}

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Interesting. Well, I don’t use MQTT (you should probably use that tag when creating a topic that involves MQTT), and I haven’t looked at the code, but I would think that the binary_sensor’s state would be ‘unknown’ until it receives the first message from the broker. Are you sure the state is ‘off’, or is it just not ‘on’?

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Well, all I can say is that when HA restarts my binary_sensors which have a type of ‘door’ or ‘window’ all show as ‘Closed’ irrespective of their state at that time.

Now that this seems to be ‘surprising’ behaviour I will create a new thread with the MQTT tag.

Thanks for your input.

On the original point, even when sensors show as ‘Unavailable’ do you have a way that you reset them to their original state at system start which doesn’t involve a ‘kludge’?

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Did you find any solution? I have similar problem.

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Look at this topic :

and use the retain flag

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