@jwl173305361 wrote:
This is less of a cry for specific help, but more of a general “what is your experience?” post.
In the process of migrating from Wink > zwave stick for the second time, and am just as discouraged this time as last. Last time I moved everything back to Wink after I couldn’t get my garage door or locks to come over. This time I’m going to settle for just my doors, lights, and motion sensors. I’m convinced I’m doing something wrong as I do not hear, or see on this forum, about people having the same issues.
- I’m not getting consistent updates from sensor devices… I’ll open a door and 4 or 5 entities will show in the logs, but none of them seem to be the one tied to something like “open” or “closed”. Same goes for motion sensors.
- Not sure which entity is the best/most reliable, do not see obvious / human readable results like “open”, “detected”, “closed”, etc… I know there are different states like 1 or 255 that mean the same as open/closed. Mapping/templating things like 0 to “open” is possible, but between vendors it seems like a nightmare with my 50 or so sensors that are from 10 or so vendors. Because of #1 though, I’m not sure with entity I should actually be using because not all the entities for the device seems to be updating each time. For example, the binary_sensor will maintain “on” or “off” while some of the other sensors for the device will change when activity occurs.
I have a lot of zwave plus devices, like lights, throughout the home so I assumed that my coverage to all sensors were good.
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