Change Edge device to driver with a different capability?

It’s because the capabilities don’t match.

You didn’t give the brand and model of the sensor you want to change. If it happens to be zwave, there is a zwave edge driver that will let one type of simple sensor pretend to be a different type. (The topic title is a clickable link.)

You have to subscribe to that channel, download the masquerade Driver, and then switch to it.

I don’t think there’s anything similar for Zigbee devices. One workaround would be to create a virtual sensor of the type you do want that also has a switch capability, then use routines to turn the virtual sensor on and off as the real sensor’s state changes.

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