Z-wave stick seeing devices, Node-Red unable to get state

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I’m running a Pi 3B+ with a Z-wave Stick for the z-wave devices
Letting Hass do the z-wave, then will use Node-Red to read state and share with my central server via MQTT.

The part I cannot get going is seeing my entities in node-red. I can do other things from node like mqtt message to sonoff, tuya switches but I cannot seem to get the entitites I want into node-red.

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Either of these do nothing when testing events Up/Down

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When attempting to get all the entity names, I get this… Nothing looks familiar

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Ok. I found my problem and keep this here to help others…

Two things I made a mistake with. First off, my HA server was wrong in the state monitoring…

Second, it appears that the state change is using the real entity_id and not the name I have given it.

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So my question goes

  1. Should I go with 20 state change objects that monitor each sensor to an MQTT output.
  2. Or capture all events, use a regex to parse the Friendly name out then take action based on that?

1 Is easy to get going once I know the entity names, and there is maybe 10-15 total
2 will be easier to visualize but harder to set up