Changing names of state for sensor

[SoCalDave]

Hi all,

I hacked an Aqara Door sensor to check the water level in my pool. When low, it triggers a valve to turn on to fill the pool.

My question is: since I am using a door sensor, the states are OPEN and CLOSED. I would like to rename those states so that OPEN displays FULL and CLOSED displays LOW.

Also, on the hose valve (a wifi B-Hyve hose timer), I would like on to show as FILLING and OFF can display OFF.

Is that possible in HA? If so, I don’t know how to change state labels.

Thank you!

-David

[tom_l]

These are the available device classes for the binary sensor domain that change the translated state value in the frontend: Binary sensor - Home Assistant

You can apply one of them to your door sensor using manual customisation. Customizing entities - Home Assistant

If you are not happy with the available choices consider voting for this feature request:

Custom device classes

Rather than maintaining an ever growing list of binary type device classes to support things like people having windows that open horizontally or gates or mailboxes, etc… Could a custom device class option be implemented that would be defined something like this: device_class: - binary_sensor: - <device_class_name>: state_off: <off state word> state_on: <on state word> icon_off: <mdi icon for off state> icon_on: <mdi icon for on state> All optio…

You don’t mention what domain your valve is, but assuming it is a switch your device class choices are even slimmer: Switch - Home Assistant