Help to modify the default DH for Z-wave Door/Window Sensor

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Im also interested in changing the code so that the capability “Tamper Alert” will instead be closed/open or even better locked/unlocked instead of tamper clear/tampered but that may cause other devices or functions in smartthings to break I guess so I don’t dare?

Up to now, you cannot edit the options that belong to a standard Capability.
You can use the capabilities Contact Sensor or Lock instead, but you will have to:

• Add the capability to your custom DTH (in metadata)
  • Here you have to change the events that belong to tamper to send them to the new capability
• Create a device-config to get a VID (device presentation)
  • This device-config generator can help you out. (it only provides the structure)
• To avoid cache issues, you need to create a new DTH and assign the new VID. Eg:

 definition(name: "DTH 2", ... , vid: "xxxx-xxxx-xxxx", mnmn: "SmartThingsCommunity") {

You can also create a custom capability to custom the capability states. Here’s a tutorial on how to create them:

Custom Capability and CLI Developer Preview

Overview At SmartThings we want to provide tooling to allow developers to get their device integrations working in the SmartThings app. These changes will allow an integrator to move from using custom commands and attributes to custom capabilities. DTH Migration For Custom Capabilities In order to follow along with the example set forth in this guide, you will want to have the CLI set up, so make sure that you take this step first. You can download the CLI here from the releases tab and read more about it in the README. It is also recommended that you familiarize yourself with the concepts: Custom Capabilities Capability Presentations Walkthrough We are going to walk through a simple example of updating our Device Type Handler (DTH) so that devices installed with the DTH will be …

Let me know if you have any questions.