You can definitely change a sensor’s type, but my recommendation is to change it as close to the sensor as possible.

I use zigbee2mqtt (so I don’t know if this applies to z-wave), but to change the 1 or 2 devices that were wrongly detected on my system, I changed them in zigbee2mqtt first and then HA will use the corrected data.

If I corrected HA, then corrected zigbee2mqtt I’d have to do this twice, plus I presume HA wouldn’t automatically pick up any other changes I made to that sensor because it had been overridden.

Thanks. I did finally figure it out. But it’s still pretty weird to have to hide these “basic” “Lights” from the rest of the UI.

FYI to my knowledge there’s no MQTT involved either directly or optionally with z-wave.

Sorry, I don’t really understand your question. They’re just simply is no MQTT involved in Z wave.

From my perspective, the “solution” would be for Home Assistant to properly recognize the device type.

@Mpeach45

My question was how you did manage to adjust the entity type. (As I don’t have zwave)

By the way:
Homeassistant simply works with the entities provided by the various integrations. So in this case the Zwave integration (Happens to be also maintained by the Homeassistant project) has to learn to report your device correctly to Homeassistant.