Some sensor enities have been changed to buttons

[Dust-E]

The problem

Some sensor enities have been changed to buttons in the Z-Wave intergration

Currently, I see this with the according devices:

Carbon monoxide FireAngel
Heat Detector FireAngel
Smoke Detectors FireAngel ZST-630
Fibaro Dimmer 2
Fibaro Motion Sensor

When this happened I dare not say but I suspect 1 to 2 months ago

Below some screenshots as an example of:
Smoke Detector Attic hall

sensor.smoke_detector_attic_hall_smoke_alarm_alarm_status
I am now missing the Atrributes of the sensor enitities

button.smoke_detector_attic_hall_idle_alarm_status

What version of Home Assistant Core has the issue?

core-2024.10.3

What was the last working version of Home Assistant Core?

core-2024.7.0 I think

What type of installation are you running?

Home Assistant OS

Integration causing the issue

Z-Wave JS

Link to integration documentation on our website

https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/zwave_js

Diagnostics information

No response

Example YAML snippet

No response

Anything in the logs that might be useful for us?

No response

Additional information

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[AlCalzone]

The buttons reset the corresponding sensor back to idle. They are not a replacement for sensors, and they have existed for months.

[kpine]

Those notification sensors were removed in 2024.10 (#125326), but it was not announced.

You can migrate to using the binary_sensors which are actually quite visible in the screenshot. There should be a couple of others in the Diagnostics panel, like for the cover removed sensor.

[Dust-E]

2 of them are indeed in the Diagnostics panel

[patrick-reijnen]

Same here, since update from core-2024.09.x to core 2024.10.4 yesterday. For me at least for Fibaro CO and Smoke sensors. Haven't checked others yet.

The lack of notification of this change is painful, as is the apparent lack of documentation how to solve issues. A bunch of automations, based on attribute values simply do not work anymore, and the buttons to be pressed result in litterally nothing? At least nothing I can detect visuallly or by looking up status of sensors .....

[Dust-E]

@patrick-reijnen
I feel the same pain but in the end I think this is better because you can make automations easier without having to write those attributes in your automation. So you no longer have attributes but an 'OK' or 'Problem'.
It is indeed some work to do it all over again.

[AlCalzone]

I don't know why the change wasn't announced, but I can at least clear up this confusion:

the buttons to be pressed result in litterally nothing

If the corresponding sensor is not idle, then pressing the button will reset it back to idle. This can be useful if the sensor got stuck in a wrong state, e.g. because the device didn't send the idle command itself.
For example if the smoke alarm claims there is smoke when there is clearly none, pressing the "Idle Smoke Alarm - Alarm Status" button will reset the sensor back to "no smoke".

[patrick-reijnen]

I don't know why the change wasn't announced, but I can at least clear up this confusion:

the buttons to be pressed result in litterally nothing

If the corresponding sensor is not idle, then pressing the button will reset it back to idle. This can be useful if the sensor got stuck in a wrong state, e.g. because the device didn't send the idle command itself. For example if the smoke alarm claims there is smoke when there is clearly none, pressing the "Idle Smoke Alarm - Alarm Status" button will reset the sensor back to "no smoke".

I'll get that point.

What I'm bumping my head into now, is that I have used the test attributes of Fibaro CO and Smoke sensors to automate and test a setup in which, at the moment one of the sensors fires, lights go on and music in house starts as additional visible and audible alarms to wake up everybody.

For production setup (real fire or CO) the attributes are still available and seem to work, but my test setup is no longer working and I'm trying to find out, at no success sofar, what I should replace "binary_sensor.overloop_1ste_co_sensor_co_alarm_carbon_monoxide_test" (for the CO sensor as example) with to find out that I somewhere manually initiated a test of a CO or Smoke sensor, thus getting lights and music started again.
It looks like there is no replacement for the test attributes ... ??

[AlCalzone]

Can you share the node diagnostics?

[kpine]

The integration provides a "test" binary_sensor entity, which is shown in the OP's screenshot. The change mentioned here does not remove that. If you don't have a test binary entity then you have a different issue. I'd suggest posting the Device diagnostic in that case.

[patrick-reijnen]

Right ... Was able to go one step forward. As I wasn't seeing the binary_sensor test_status, using the Zwave Control Panel I've re-interviewed the CO node, which actually resulted in the binary sensor test_status popping up in HA.
It being a binary sensor still s..ks though. When I manually trigger the CO sensor for a test by pushing its button, state of the binary sensor nicely switches to On / Detected, which I can use to fire off the automation. The CO node itself hoewever never automatically returns the state to Off / Undetected and there is no button in HA to reset the test_status to Idle / Off / Undetected. As it seems not possible to create an automation to switch state of a binary sensor, I'm not stuck to going into UI mode (Development Tools) to switch its status to off everytime I run a test. Sofar for real automation of my test setup.
Any ideas to solve this, as I'm not expecting the former sensor entities to return?