Hello,
I have this sensor that seems to work fine but once it sits for an indetermined amount of time it seems to not wake? I have it on a pantry door to just turn on the light inside. Overnight seems to make it not wake in the morning when I open the door. I had it in SmartThings doing the same task for years without issue. However, I joined it with S2 to HA and I'm wondering if that's part of the problem? I had an issue with S2 with SmartThings but after reading the firmware patch notes I went with S2 to try again. It's running the latest firmware 1.6.1. Anyone having luck with S2 with this device? Or if yours is working how is it joined?
Thanks!
#Aeotec Recessed Door Sensor 7 S2?
faint bloom
faint bloom
Aeotec Recessed Door Sensor 7 S2?
ebon stump
Which Z-Wave controller are you using? Have you had a look at the connection strength?
faint bloom
I'm using the ZWA-2. It's only about 15 feet or so away with direct line of sight to the door. I just turned on the signal strength diagnostic and it shows -72 dBm. Seems pretty poor for how close the controller is?
ebon stump
-72 is pretty good.
Goes down to -110, so you got about 30-40 dBm margin
You could try recording some Z-Wave logs and see if there are dropped commands around the time you're missing a report. Maybe it's something with the device after all
Also, maybe it's time for a new battery?
faint bloom
Ah ok. I'm used to looking at Wifi and looking for -30dB.
Ok I'll look into how to do that.
It's a brand new battery showing 100%. I changed it when I moved over from SmartThings to HA as it was spent.
faint bloom
Side note. Is it normal for a door sensor to have so many sensors added? It feels like I did something wrong. And the wording for the entities was quite awkward in the automations. Open opened and Open closed?
ebon stump
This is a known issue with Z-Wave door sensors in HA. I've never seen 6 sensors though, Only 4
faint bloom
Quick fix is to just disable a bunch of them and leave the one or two on I want to use?
faint bloom
Can I rename one too to just be "Status" or "Open/Close"? The open open thing makes it tough. Sorry still getting up to speed on this whole entity thing after coming from SmartThings land.
cursive lintel
You can name them whatever you want
If you post the Device Diagnostic file we could see why there are extra sensors. A re-interview might remove them.
faint bloom
Ah ok.
Can I upload here? Anything I should redact from it? It seems pretty benign from a quick glance.
cursive lintel
It's fine to post it here.
faint bloom
cursive lintel
There was some refactoring of notification sensor entities a couple releases ago, I think that broke things.
Now it's creating duplicate sensors for "open" and "closed", that was prevented years ago.
Yeah, I have some new duplicate sensors created upgrading to 2025.9.
Also addition of sensors for Idle notification states. Maybe you can let the team know Al.
faint bloom
Well at least I didn't do it wrong. 😛
Thanks for looking at that.
cursive lintel
I would use binary_sensor.pantry_door_sensor_window_door_is_open or binary_sensor.pantry_door_sensor_window_door_is_open_2
The is_closed ones should not be there.
I don't think your recessed sensor reports tilt positions (I think the other door sensor can).
faint bloom
Ok sounds good. I got lucky and that's the one I used for the automation. Heh. It made the most sense.
Ya this one doesn't have tilt just open/close.
cursive lintel
That was the known issue Al was referring to. The "simple" sensor (your is_open_2) is one that reports open or closed, including tilt. The is_open one would report "off" in HA if the device reported tilt.