"Deprecation: Window/door is open W/2026.4 Update

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I’ve looked around and don’t see any mention of this deprecation notice for the 2026.4 update.

I’ve got a bunch of these notices

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I got the same, but the notification makes it easy to fix.
Should have been mentioned thogh.

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This just popped up on my instance. It appears to be a deprecation due to changes in Z-Wave JS, not in Home Assistant itself.

From the Z-Wave JS changelog entry for 15.22.0 (PR link added by me):

Add a new synthetic “Opening state” variable with 3 states to represent door/window state: Closed/Open/Tilt; deprecate all old ones (#8676)

It looks like there was also some work done in HA to support this change: Core PR.

I’m glad they’re cleaning up the duplicate “door state” sensors - one of my devices has 6!

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What exactly is this asking? I’ve looked at the automation for this and the only items with those names are z-wave Entities.

Is it really asking me to change the name of all these z-wave door sensors?

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It’s asking you to update your dashboards and automations to use the new non-deprecated door/window entity.

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While dealing with this (and my long-not-addressed "rationalized door entities" todo, since I knew this was troubled), I have a few questions:

  1. Is there any way to reset the entity name to what it would have been on fresh add (without remove/add)?
  2. Is the new entity a "binary sensor"? It seems not if it can have 3 states, but what I want is a binary sensor that is true/on when the door is open and false/off when it is shut.
  3. In the zwavejs-ui web view, I see the zwave entities, but I don't see the synthetic sensor. Do people think it's there, and if not should it be? Probably in a new section "synthetic" at the end. I find the zwavejs-ui web view very helpful for debugging and unconfusing.
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Open the entity's settings and click the refresh button next to the entity ID.

There are two new entities, a sensor with three states open/close/tilted, and a binary_sensor for open/close.

The new Z-Wave JS value ID (which map to HA entities) is under Notification CC and is called "Opening state", e.g. [261-113-0-Access Control-Opening state] Opening state.