Insteon open close sensor initial communication

I am having a weird issue with my open/close sensors. if they sit for a while and one is activated by a door, it does nothing. If I then open and close it a couple times, it starts talking all the time perfectly until it sits for a while again and repeats over again. Long story is the first initial trigger does nothing but it seems after that it starts sending commands to HA and it works great continuously until it sits for a while. Any ideas on how to make sure the first initial trigger sends info to HA? Like make it send its position multiple times to make sure HA got it?