I have encountered the same situation trying to use a switch to control some blinds.
Has there been any update on this issue from either Home Assistant or MySensors, or any workaround developed?
Thanks for the response. Can you be more specific about how to request the status from the node?
My understanding is the request format is:
request (Child_ID, VariableType);
But if the Home Assistant entity that I want to request the status of is not a MySensors entity it will not have a Child_ID. So how do I format the request statement?