Change words in Logbook

Configuration
1

Is there a way to change the wording of events in the Logbook?

When the lights turn on, it says “kitchen lights turned on” which is what it should be.

But when I have a binary sensor trigger it says “front door turned on” when I really want it to say “front door opened”. How can I accomplish this?

2

make a template sensor that returns opened / closed. Then exclude the original binary sensor from the logbook.

Or (easier solution) in the customize section, add a device_class: opening property to the binary_sensor.

homeassistant:
  name: Home
  unit_system: metric
  # etc

  customize:
    # Add an entry for each entity that you want to overwrite.
    binary_sensor.living_room_door:
      device_class: opening
3

I know this is an old post, but unless I’m missing something this does not change the words in Logbook. I have several open/close sensors. They are set up as device_class: opening, they show as open/closed in history, but in logbook they still show on/off. I’ve just grown to live with it, but it would be nice if logbook respected the states properly. I like the logbook for it’s simplicity. For me I just have presence, open/close, locks, and a few other sensors in the list. a quick look at what’s going on

4

Just wanted to bump this. Not sure why, other than it still bugs me, haha. I’d think by now that they’d have made these changes to respect the device class. I could create the template sensor, but just seems like a pain for the number of devices I have.

5

Seems like a bug. Logbook should translate based on the device_class. There is a chance that the dev’s will shut it down if you make it into an issue. Your other options is to wrap each binary_sensor into a sensor with the words open/close.

sensor:
  - platform: template
    sensors:
      blah:
        value_template: "{{ 'Open' if is_state('binary_sensor.blah','on') else 'Closed' }}"