GE Enbrighten Z-Wave Plus Portable Smart Motion Sensor

I figured this out and I am detailing my solution to help anyone else in the same situation.

Apparently it’s a common problem that door and motion sensors produce a non-existent binary sensor and so the “Jasco Products ZW6302 Portable Smart Motion Sensor” that I can see cannot be used as a trigger.

When I go into Z wave configuration (under integrations), reviewing the OZW log shows the motion sensor is triggering events as shown below.

No Motion Detected
Received Alarm report: type=0, level=0, sensorSrcID=0, type:Burglar event:0, status=255

Motion Detected
Received Alarm report: type=0, level=0, sensorSrcID=0, type:Burglar event:8, status=255

Reference - https://www.home-assistant.io/docs/z-wave/entities#burglar-entity

And when i looked under Developer Tools -> States, I found “sensor.jasco_products_zw6302_portable_smart_motion_sensor_burglar”. This is the burglar notification sensor created by the motion sensor. It is set to 8 for motion and 0 for no motion and on the Developer Tools -> States page I can watch the state change as motion occurs.

This allows me to create an automation with a trigger from a state as shown below.

Trigger

The automation triggers when there has been no motion detected for one hour - it works perfectly.

My next step is to make this an “on/off” sensor and this will be created as a binary_sensor template.

David
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