Re-use of old Wink Door Sensors

Hardware
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Longtime lurker here, now getting more serious about home automation. A long time ago I bought into the Wink infrastructure, and among other things bought door/window sensors, and they worked quite well.

Years later(now), I have shutdown wink, and have HA on a Raspberry Pi5 humming along nicely (thanks Home Assistant - awesome product). From my research, I see that the Wink door sensors are Zigbee based, and in theory should work with my Zigbee2MQTT setup. I just can’t get the bl**dy sensors to factory reset so I can add them. I’m supposed to hold down “SW1” (tamper switch and hold for 5 seconds after inserting the battery, but SW1 isn’t really a switch. SW1 is a little metal rectangle that doesn’t do anything even when pressed.

Has anyone else tried to do this and can lend clarification? How do I reset these things?

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Model number, and maybe a link or photo, of such door sensor you have got…?

I’m asking because I used to have one, but that one was not zigbee, and that was ~ a decade ago, so I’m confused… Maybe Wink had multiple types / generations of the door sensor over the years…?

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Thanks for the reply. To clarify, it was with my Wink, but labeled “Quirky Door Sensor” - Model PTRPP-WH01 and PTRPP-WH02 (FCC ID is 2AAAH-ZIGWDS01). - Identifies as the SZ-DWS04.

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Instructions tell to press and hold the switch, insert battery, wait LED illuminates, release switch.
Maybe sw is broken? Bad battery?

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Google the phrase “SZ-DWS04 zigbee reset”
2 seconds later you could even find an youtube video

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Good thoughts - battery is brand new. Switch may be broken. I have 2 others I can check too.

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Thanks, thats basically what I’ve been doing (via ChatGPT), but was directed to SW1, and the video seems to indicate SW2… I’ll try when back home.

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Let us know how that goes.

Another example where ChatGPT is lying / giving you misdirections… which is unfortunately not surprising because, if you think about it - how would/could ChatGPT even know?

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Same way we do, trying to separate unreliable/incorrect information from reliable… With a difference that we can try, experiment and measure outcome, AI can’t…

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I found the documentation for the switches in a new box, and had to add the switches as unsupported sensors. Reset was hit the reset with the battery on, remove battery, and reinsert battery all the time holding SW2.

ChatGPT is good at scanning the interwebs for answers to questions, but it’s advice is only as good as it’s sources (GIGO).