I have a xiaomi aqara leak sensor I use it to detect when my dog’s water bowl is empty (wet=full/dry=empty) The problem is the initial state of the sensor which is ‘dry’ so I have to manually change it I looked up how to set ‘initial_state’ for binary sensor but didn’t find any documentation for …

Setting initial state for binary_sensor

jparthum (Jason Parthum) April 18, 2019, 9:31pm 8

Oh OK, I wasn’t aware of set_state.py. Very cool!

Did you put it in your HA config folder?

EDIT: Nevermind, I spotted it…

Thanks again.

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