What do the sensors look in in Developer Tools / States? Or do they just send events?
A standard binary_sensor will be 'on' or 'off' despite what the front end might say about open / closed. Safest way is to use a State Trigger (not a Device Trigger) using the entity (e.g. binary_sensor.front_door or some hideous alphanumeric identifier) and checking its state.
So are you saying you can’t read your sensors or operate your switches?!