No the Configuration button is an option for the device driver author. It can be used to manually update or the author can decide to have the configuration updated with any change to the Preferences.
It's been OK for a bit now. I think it got confused when the sensor was moved to a back bedroom and may have taken awhile to get a "good Z-wave path" back to the Hubitat. Can't be sure of that -- had done a lot of things -- changing driver, Z-wave repair, and re-pairing it, etc, etc -- but it's behaving fine now for several days