Ecolink Door & Window Sensor Close/Open Status

Devices & Integrations
1

Is there a way to reverse the status on this sensor from normally closed to normally open?

I intend to wire this to a pump alarm that is in a normally open state.

2

Hi, @Geewiz
Is your device currently using a SmartThings driver or a custom one?

By default, a configuration to “reverse” the values isn’t exposed. So, you would need to create a custom driver for this purpose. Do you have some knowledge related to development? This means you can use a code editor, console commands, etc. I would help you step by step, but I don’t want you to be uncomfortable.

You could also take a look at the Custom Drivers here in the forum to check if they expose a setting to do this, but I haven’t seen this before.
The ones that most people have chosen are in the channel shared in this post:

3

And here is the driver for the Z-Wave version of the Ecolink Door/Window sensor:

No preferences for reverse though:

4

A few options.

  1. Why not just reverse the rule for when the alarm triggers?
  2. Create a virtual switch that is opened when the physical one is closed, and use that as your alarm trigger.
  3. You might be able to use the Masquerade zwave driver to invert the inputs.

I would just do #1.

5

I have a couple interior doors (e.g. bathroom doors) that are normally open. On the dashboard of the SmartThings App, these doors are always listed as 2 open doors. For me, I like looking at the dashboard at night just to verify if all the windows and doors are closed, but I have to mentally subtract these 2 doors.

The solution was to use option 3 (Masquerade Edge driver) to create them as a reversed state contact sensor. Now they no longer appear on the dashboard.

So I can say #3 is a good choice that will work and it is the only one that will affect the dashboard. If there was a way to exclude certain door sensors from the dashboard, I’d be even happier, but this works as a workaround.

6

You know that you can deselect individual devices in the home insight settings?

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7

That takes the doors and windows completely off the dashboard. I want to keep the exterior doors and windows still reporting on dashboard but remove the interior doors from the list. Do you know a way to do that?

Edit: Aha! If you hold down on the option then you get a list!

Thank you!