Fibaro door sensor status on Openhab restart

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@SimonB27

or perhaps I’m missing a setting that can persuade it

If a different setting does not help you may send a refresh command to your item:

Is it possible to force a LUX sensor to update?

Because of the device you’re using, I think there is a much simpler way to achieve this. Your device has a LOT of configuration parameters for tuning it, so you shouldn’t need to use a timer, the Expire binding, or persistence. If you are using the default settings, it looks like you would want to set parameter 6 to 50 (default 30s + 20s). Also, setting parameter 8 to 2 will allow the motion sensor to only trigger during the night, and setting parameter 9 to 60 should set the lux level for the …

Actually, if you send the command RefreshType.REFRESH to an item, the ZWave binding will request the current value from the device.