Motion Sensor issues after switching to Z-Wave JS

Configuration Z-Wave
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I’ve just upgraded Home Assistant and, since the deprecated zwave integration is now gone, moved across to Z-Wave JS. Everything seems fine after reconfiguring except for the multisensor in my kitchen. It used to work fine on the old integration, detecting motion and then clearing after 60 seconds as per the config on the device. This now no longer happens, and the motion sensor is only being cleared after several minutes (between 5 and 10 usually).

The multisensor is a ZW074 by Aeon Labs and is powered via USB, so should always be available and reporting/routing. I haven’t tried removing and pairing the device again, this may be my next step if I can’t find any other sensible solutions.

Here’s my diagnostics for the device if it helps (I’ve currently set the timeout to 10 seconds instead of 60).

SIDENOTE: I’ve just notice that the On/Off colours are backwards on the motion sensor entity, surely green should be On and Red should be Off?
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Enable the binary sensor motion report and enable the disabled entity in the device. That should hopefully help, as the behavior changed between ZWave versions.

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Binary sensor reporting is already configured and the motion sensor entity has never been disabled.

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Have you already trued to manually wake the battery device?

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If you mean pressing the button on the multisensor to wake it up then yes, I’ve tried that already and nothing different happens. The multisensor is powered via USB shouldn’t go to sleep.

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Not sure what and how you did. But if you excluded and included again, the default blind time is 4 minutes.

Also, waking up the device is not pressing the button. But pressing it 3 secs.

Start with these 2 things before proceeding.

Please post a screenshot of the configure device page (parameters)

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Yup, default is 4 minutes but I’ve had it set to 60 seconds for several years now. I’ve set it down to 10 seconds to try and debug this issue. And you don’t have to wake the multisensor up when it’s powered via USB, it’s just always awake (because it doesn’t need to conserve power).

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It seems that somehow the multisensor didn’t set the entities correctly when it was added to the Z-Wave JS integration, I’ve found the motion sensor under a completely unrelated name. Now that I’ve renamed entities my motion sensor is updating correctly and triggering the correct automations.

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