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title: "Template Cover"
description: "Instructions how to integrate Template covers into Home Assistant."
date: 2017-06-19 20:32
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ha_category: Cover
ha_release: 0.48
ha_iot_class: "Local Push"
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---

The `template` platform can create covers that combine components and provides the ability to run scripts or invoke services for each of the open, close, stop, position, and tilt commands of a cover.

To enable Template covers in your installation, add the following to your `configuration.yaml` file:

```yaml
# Example configuration.yaml entry
cover:
  - platform: template
    covers:
      garage_door:
        friendly_name: "Garage Door"
        value_template: "{% raw %}{{is_state('sensor.garage_door > 0'}}{% endraw %}"
        open_cover:
          service: script.open_garage_door
        close_cover:
          service: script.close_garage_door
        stop_cover:
          service: script.stop_garage_door
```

Configuration variables:

- **covers** array (*Required*): List of your coverss.
  - **open_cover** (*Optional*): Defines an [action](/getting-started/automation/) to run when the cover is opened.  If `open_cover` is specified, `close_cover` must also be specified.  At least one of `open_cover` and `set_cover_position` must be specified.
  - **close_cover** (*Optional*): Defines an [action](/getting-started/automation/) to run when the cover is closed.
  - **stop_cover** (*Optional*): Defines an [action](/getting-started/automation/) to run when the cover is stopped.
  - **set_cover_position** (*Optional*): Defines an [action](/getting-started/automation/) to run when the cover is set to a specific value (between 0 and 100).
  - **set_cover_tilt_position** (*Optional*): Defines an [action](/getting-started/automation/) to run when the cover tilt is set to a specific value (between 0 and 100).
  - **friendly_name** (*Optional*): Name to use in the frontend.
  - **value_template** (*Optional*): Defines a [template](/topics/templating/) to get the state of the cover. Valid values are open/true or closed/false. Either `value_template` or `position_template` must be specified.
  - **position_template** (*Optional*): Defines a [template](/topics/templating/) to get the state of the cover. Legal values are numbers between 0 (closed) and 100 (open). Either `value_template` or `position_template` must be specified.
  - **icon_template** (*Optional*): Defines a [template](/topics/templating/) to specify which icon to use. Either `value_template` or `position_template` must be specified.
  - **entity_id** (*Optional*): Add a list of entity IDs so the switch only reacts to state changes of these entities. This will reduce the number of times the cover will try to update it's state.


## {% linkable_title Examples %}

In this section you will find some real life examples of how to use this cover.

### {% linkable_title Garage Door %}

This example converts a garage door with a controllable switch and position sensor into a cover.

```yaml
cover:
  - platform: template
    covers:
      garage_door:
        friendly_name: 'Garage Door'
        value_template: "{% raw %}{{ sensor.garage_door }}{% endraw %}"
        open_cover:
          service: switch.turn_on
          entity_id: switch.garage_door
        close_cover:
          service: switch.turn_off
          entity_id: switch.garage_door
        stop_cover:
          service: switch.turn_on
          entity_id: switch.garage_door
        icon_template: "{% raw %}{% if not is_state('sensor.garage_door', 'on') %}mdi:garage-open{% else %}mdi:garage{% endif %}{% endraw %}"

```