One of the models has a tilt feature that just reports on/off based on it's position, but that feature is poorly designed which is probably why the related settings and capability isn't implemented in the Hubitat driver...
I had trouble getting it to report tilt while writing a DTH, but I was able to get these instructions from someone at Aeotec:
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Hold DW Sensor vertically with the arrow pointing right and the magnet sensor on the right side (magnet in right hand, DW Sensor in left).
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Pull your left hand forward and at the same time tilt it about 30 - 40 degrees towards your body and hold it that way for a few seconds.
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DW Sensor will report open first, then after a 2-3 seconds, Binary Sensor should report if triggered a tilt report.
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You can now move them as you see fit, when you put the magnet near the DW Sensor, both tilt sensor and contact sensor should report CLOSED or OFF.
I was able to get the device to send the tilt report by following those instructions, but the way it's designed prevents you from using it on a garage door.
I went back and forth with them a few times about that feature and here's the final rant I ended up sending:
Based on my testing, it won't report that it's been tilted until after the open notification has been sent and it won't report not tilted until the closed notification is sent so since it's already reporting open and closed there's not point in reporting tilt.
Let's say I'm wrong and you're able to crack the window enough to trigger tilt, but not open enough to trigger contact open, that still won't work because when you close the window nothing will happen because the contact is already closed. The only way to get it to report that it's not tilted would be to open the window enough for it to trigger contact open, wait 3 seconds, and then close it all the way.
Closing the window has the same problem because if you close the window almost all the way so that the notification report is closed, but it's still tilted then when you close the window nothing will happen so it will be stuck showing tilted until you re-open it like mentioned above.
To make the problem even worse, when the contact closes the sensor binary report gets sent immediately so if you're slowly closing your window it might report that it's tilted even though you closed it completely a couple seconds later. If that happens you'll have to re-open it again like mentioned above and hope that you close it fast enough the next time so that the problem doesn't happen again.
I'm pretty sure there are no use cases where the tilt functionality will be usable because of the magnet.
The magnet shouldn't be required for tilt and if the tilt value changes it should immediately report it...
The tilt reporting is dependent on the contact sensor's state, but not the other way around so the open/close reporting should always work.
The magnet is really tiny so the lines have to be lined up almost perfectly and while holding the device to test it I sometimes had a hard getting it to stay closed because the magnet kept slipping out of alignment.
If your magnet was slightly out of alignment when you mounted it then it wouldn't surprise me if opening and closing the door a few times knocked it completely out which would explain why it stopped reporting closed. That could also explain why re-mounting the sensor solved the problem.
