Ecolink window/door sensor (DWZWAVE2) as button device controller?

[matrix]

I needed simple and cheap battery operated (rental house) buttons so I got a couple of Ecolink window/door sensor (DWZWAVE2) and added a small momentary button to them. Smartthings found them easily and I can detect a button press using “sensor closed” and base my events/automation on that. This all functionally works.

The problem is that is shows up as door/window sensor and I have to do automations around sensor closed event, it participates in security triggers automatically. Not a huge inconvenience but still… Is there any way to use a device controller/smartapp that will make this device a “zwave button” which translates “sensor closed” to “button pressed” with a button icon?

Regards,

[JDRoberts]

Mike Maxwell has a very cool universal device type which can make one device report as a different kind:

[OBSOLETE] Universal Virtual Device Type and Translator

This has got to be the sickest DTH ever… The uDTH Ever wished you could turn on a presence sensor with a switch?, or maybe take a lock command and send a motion event? Basically this bad boy accepts these commands: on off open close lock unlock and can turn them into these attribute states: open closed present not present active inactive The following capabilities are presented on the command side: switch door control garage door control lock The following devices are presented on the attribute side: Contact Motion Presence Door Acceleration Illuminance Smoke Water Sound You wire up an instance of this device to two separate apps, and off you go. Add to your repo, and select the device MikeMaxwell : uDTH the repo is owner: MikeMaxwell name: dth [image] [image] [image…

So your open/close sensor can instead report as an on/off switch.