Wyze sense always reporting wrong status

[Newshound]

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i’ll probably try and move the base closer

I also decided to mount the sensor on top of the door to eliminate the “surrounded by metal” effect of being behind the rails.

Wyze Contact Sensor Garage Door Placement?

I did mine a little differently. My first instinct was to mount the contact sensor on the side of the door, but my bridge was far enough away that it couldn’t receive the ‘closed’ signal. ‘Open’ was no problem once the sending unit cleared the rail, but ‘closed’ was never received because the sending unit was surrounded by metal when it got into that position. It had a metal door on one side and a metal rail on the other. So – I moved my bridge much closer, and mounted the sensor on TOP of t…