# Use Fibaro UBS inputs

**URL:** <https://community.homey.app/t/use-fibaro-ubs-inputs/150558>\
**Category:** Devices\
**Created:** [February 3, 2026, 8:26pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/use-fibaro-ubs-inputs/150558 "2026-02-03T20:26:56Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Gezon](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/gezon/32/12805_2.png) [@Gezon](https://community.homey.app/u/Gezon)\
**Post date:** [February 3, 2026, 8:26pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/use-fibaro-ubs-inputs/150558/1 "2026-02-03T20:26:56Z")

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I’ve got a Fibaro Universal Binary Sensor hooked up to a simple magnet switch and a temp sensor. I want to create a virtual device that gets it values from the universal sensor.

As a virtual device I’ve chosen a garagedoor and I can get the temperature value to update according to the Fibaro sensor, I can’t get the state of the input one from Fibaro sensor to carry over to the virtual device. The fault I get can be seen in the screenshot.

 ![IMG_8231](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/uploads/athom/original/3X/3/c/3cc3a0a9feae6f53a6c3bf0ce3e599c10a0e5353.jpeg)

As I understand it the virtual device expects a boolean input but the Fibaro sensor is outputting a string value, am I correct? How might I solve it? 🙂

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**Author:** ![smarthomesven](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/smarthomesven/32/79712_2.png) [@smarthomesven](https://community.homey.app/u/smarthomesven)\
**Post date:** [February 3, 2026, 9:29pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/use-fibaro-ubs-inputs/150558/2 "2026-02-03T21:29:52Z")

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That’s strange, the Flow looks correct. Are you sure that there are no spaces/other characters in the value (other than the tag)?

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**Author:** ![Gezon](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/gezon/32/12805_2.png) [@Gezon](https://community.homey.app/u/Gezon)\
**Post date:** [February 4, 2026, 4:32am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/use-fibaro-ubs-inputs/150558/3 "2026-02-04T04:32:59Z")

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I just checked and there is no spaces or anything else.

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**Author:** ![Gezon](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/gezon/32/12805_2.png) [@Gezon](https://community.homey.app/u/Gezon)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2026, 7:57pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/use-fibaro-ubs-inputs/150558/4 "2026-02-14T19:57:57Z")

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Is there something else I can check or do? How should I interpret the fault?