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Cover

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

Note

Building block integration

This cover is a building block integration that cannot be added to your Home Assistant directly but is used and provided by other integrations.

A building block integration differs from the typical integration that connects to a device or service. Instead, other integrations that do integrate a device or service into Home Assistant use this cover building block to provide entities, services, and other functionality that you can use in your automations or dashboards.

If one of your integrations features this building block, this page documents the functionality the cover building block offers.

The state of a cover

A cover can have the following states:

  • Opening: The cover is in the process of opening to reach a set position.
  • Open: The cover has reached the open position.
  • Closing: The cover is in the process of closing to reach a set position.
  • Closed: The cover has reached the closed position.
  • Unavailable: The entity is currently unavailable.
  • Unknown: The state is not yet known.

How the state of a cover is represented in the frontend depends on the device class.

Device class

A device class is a measurement categorization in Home Assistant. It influences how the entity is represented in the dashboard. This can be modified in the customize section. For example, different states may be represented by different icons, colors, or text.

The screenshot shows different icons representing different device classes for covers:

List of cover examples.

Example of various device classes icons in open and closed state. The open image in this example has state_color: true specified in the Entities card configuration to receive the icon coloring.

The following device classes are supported for covers.

  • None: Generic cover. This is the default and doesn’t need to be set.
  • awning: Control of an awning, such as an exterior retractable window, door, or patio cover.
  • blind: Control of blinds, which are linked slats that expand or collapse to cover an opening or may be tilted to partially covering an opening, such as window blinds.
  • curtain: Control of curtains or drapes, which is often fabric hung above a window or door that can be drawn open.
  • damper: Control of a mechanical damper that reduces airflow, sound, or light.
  • door: Control of a door or gate that provides access to an area.
  • garage: Control of a garage door that provides access to a garage.
  • gate: Control of a gate. Gates are found outside of a structure and are typically part of a fence.
  • shade: Control of shades, which are a continuous plane of material or connected cells that expanded or collapsed over an opening, such as window shades.
  • shutter: Control of shutters, which are linked slats that swing out/in to covering an opening or may be tilted to partially cover an opening, such as indoor or exterior window shutters.
  • window: Control of a physical window that opens and closes or may tilt.

Actions

Cover control actions

Available actions: cover.open_cover, cover.close_cover, cover.stop_cover, cover.toggle, cover.open_cover_tilt, cover.close_cover_tilt, cover.stop_cover_tilt, cover.toggle_tilt

Data attribute Optional Description
entity_id yes String or list of strings that point at entity_id’s of covers. Use entity_id: all to target all.

Automation example 

automation:
  triggers:
    - trigger: time
      at: "07:15:00"
  actions:
    - action: cover.open_cover
      target:
        entity_id: cover.demo

Action cover.set_cover_position

Set cover position of one or multiple covers.

Data attribute Optional Description
entity_id yes String or list of strings that point at entity_id’s of covers. Use entity_id: all to target all.
position no Integer between 0 and 100.

Automation example 

automation:
  triggers:
    - trigger: time
      at: "07:15:00"
  actions:
    - action: cover.set_cover_position
      target:
        entity_id: cover.demo
      data:
        position: 50

Action cover.set_cover_tilt_position

Set cover tilt position of one or multiple covers.

Data attribute Optional Description
entity_id yes String or list of strings that point at entity_id’s of covers. Use entity_id: all to target all.
tilt_position no Integer between 0 and 100.

Automation example 

automation:
  triggers:
    - trigger: time
      at: "07:15:00"
  actions:
    - action: cover.set_cover_tilt_position
      target:
        entity_id: cover.demo
      data:
        tilt_position: 50

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