Magnet door switch customization

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Hi,

This is the second of my long term niggles I’ve not been able to sort, I’m hoping someone could possibly point me in the right direction with…

I have an RF magnetic door sensor configured with an automation and basic script to turn on a light when the door is opened - all good, works well. But in HA, the magnetic door sensor shows with the standard switch icon and allows it to be turned on and off - clearly as its a door, it can’t remotely be turned on and off, so I’ve been trying to find a way of making it show either ‘read-only’ so it can’t be switched or, even better, its status displayed as open or closed, not appearing as switchable from the frontend.

I’ve fiddled with using a customization and mdi icon, but it still displays the switch as something that can be ‘switched’.

Thanks for any help.

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How about just hiding it using customization/not showing in a group? You can create a template sensor to show the status instead. That takes care of it being ‘read only’.

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Ah, OK, thanks. Not used template sensors before.

Sounds like thats what I need to be looking at.

Thanks for the pointer.

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Something like this might work:

-  platform: template
   sensors:
     magnetic_door_status:
       value_template: "{% if is_state('switch.yourdoorentity', 'on') %}closed{% else %}open{% endif %}"
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Perfect!!! Many thanks for that.:smiley:

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