It’s been been over a year since this topic was begun and it’s still a problem for my setup but I solved it using @rlkoshak’s advice. I needed a way to see a count of how many doors were open in my house and provide my wife with an alert (my toddler escapes on occasion to visit a local construction site). I decided to use 2 aeon ZW120 contact sensors and a monoprice ZD2105 recessed door contact sensor. The aeon sensors report ON/OFF (since they are binary sensors) and the ZD2105 reports OPEN/CLOSED. All sensors monitor whether their respective door is open or closed. My solution was to create the logical/proxy items and associated rules below:
.items file
Contact BasementDoorSensorProxy “Basement Door Sensor” (Doors)
Contact DeckDoorSensorProxy “Deck Door Sensor” (Doors)
.rules entry
//Proxy rules for aeon contact sensors that behave as switches
rule "update Basement proxy door sensor1"
when
Item Door_Sensor_Basement received update OFF
then
sendCommand(BasementDoorSensorProxy, CLOSED)
end
rule "update Basement proxy door sensor2"
when
Item Door_Sensor_Basement received update ON
then
sendCommand(BasementDoorSensorProxy, OPEN)
end
rule "update Deck proxy door sensor1"
when
Item Door_Sensor_Deck received update OFF
then
sendCommand(DeckDoorSensorProxy, CLOSED)
end
rule "update Deck proxy door sensor2"
when
Item Door_Sensor_Deck received update ON
then
sendCommand(DeckDoorSensorProxy, OPEN)
end
//end proxy rules
the solution works but is a total hack. I’m hoping for a cleaner solution in the future. I hope this helps someone else.