Home Assistant

Covers

Home Assistant can give you an interface to control covers such as rollershutters, blinds, and garage doors.

Services

Cover control services

Available services: cover.open_cover, cover.close_cover, cover.stop_cover, cover.open_cover_tilt, cover.close_cover_tilt, cover.stop_cover_tilt

Service data attribute Optional Description
entity_id yes String or list of strings that point at entity_id’s of covers. Else targets all.

Service cover.set_cover_position

Set cover position of one or multiple covers.

Service data attribute Optional Description
entity_id yes String or list of strings that point at entity_id’s of covers. Else targets all.
position no Integer between 0 and 100.

Automation example

automation:
  trigger:
    platform: time
    after: "07:15:00"
  action:
    - service: cover.set_cover_position
      data:
        entity_id: cover.demo
        position: 50

Service cover.set_cover_tilt_position

Set cover tilt position of one or multiple covers.

Service data attribute Optional Description
entity_id yes String or list of strings that point at entity_id’s of covers. Else targets all.
position no Integer between 0 and 100.

Automation example

automation:
  trigger:
    platform: time
    after: "07:15:00"
  action:
    - service: cover.set_cover_tilt_position
      data:
        entity_id: cover.demo
        position: 50