Adaptive Cover Pro — intelligent blind control with companion Lovelace card

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Hi all — sharing two paired projects for sun-aware cover automation in Home Assistant.

Adaptive Cover Pro is a custom integration that controls vertical blinds, horizontal awnings, and venetian (tilt) blinds based on sun position. It filters direct sunlight while maximizing natural light, with climate-aware operation (winter heat-gain vs. summer shading) and a 10-handler override pipeline for force-overrides, weather safety, manual override, motion, and more.

Adaptive Cover Pro Card is the companion Lovelace card. One glance tells you what the integration is doing, why it decided that, and how to take over.

Repositories

Integration — what it does

  • Three cover types: vertical blinds, horizontal awnings, venetian (tilt)
  • Basic and Climate modes: geometric sun tracking, plus a temperature-aware strategy for winter, summer, and intermediate seasons
  • 10-handler override pipeline: force override → weather → manual → custom position → motion → cloud suppression → climate → glare zones → solar → default
  • Safety overrides: force override (rain/wind/fire), weather safety (wind/rain), manual override that pauses on physical, app, or voice moves
  • Always-on diagnostics: decision trace, sun position, position verification; debug mode without touching YAML
  • 15 runtime services: change any setting from automations and scripts without opening the Options UI
  • Current stable: v2.21.5 · Current beta: v2.22.0-beta.3 · Requires: HA 2026.3.0+

Card — what it shows

  • Sky compass — live sun position vs. window FOV and blind spot, rendered as an SVG polar plot
  • Decision strip — all 10 pipeline handlers with matched/skipped state and reasons; winning handler highlighted
  • Cover positions — live actual position per cover, target marker, mismatch warnings; click the track to set position
  • Overrides panel — manual override countdown, force-override status, motion timeout, one-click reset
  • Standalone Sky Compass card in the bundle accepts multiple integration entries and overlays them on one compass

Install

  • Integration (HACS): search "Adaptive Cover Pro" in HACS → Integrations
  • Card (HACS): add https://github.com/jrhubott/adaptive-cover-pro-card as a custom repository (category: Lovelace), then install "Adaptive Cover Pro Card"
  • Full steps: Installation · First-Time Setup

Where to start in the docs

Support & discussion

For bug reports and feature requests, please use GitHub so they don't get lost:

This thread is a fine place to share setups, screenshots, and general questions, but actionable bugs and feature requests are tracked on GitHub.

Credits

Inspired by and originally forked from Adaptive Cover by Bas Brussee (@basbruss). ACP has since grown into a substantially different codebase with a new architecture and feature set.

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v2.21.5 (stable) is out — the latest in the 2.21 line of small reliability fixes.

Highlights

  • The managed cover entity now mirrors transient opening/closing state from the underlying physical cover, so dashboards and automations that read state from the proxy entity no longer see it stuck at open/closed during movement.
  • Venetian blinds with a custom-position or default/sunset handler tilt configured in v2.21.3 now apply that tilt correctly on non-SOLAR control methods — a logic-order bug was stripping handler-supplied tilt on every cycle.

Full release notes — v2.21.5

Also available for testing — v2.22.0 beta

v2.22.0-beta.3 wraps a nine-phase internal refactor (coordinator responsibility distributed into managers/, state/, pipeline/, and cover_types/ — ~640 lines lighter in the coordinator alone), a post-settle cap-grace fix that eliminates false manual-override on KNX, Shelly 2PM, FGR223 and similar actuators, config-flow plumbing consolidated, and an options-flow fix for the "Is Sunny" sensor that wouldn't clear.

Full beta notes — v2.22.0-beta.3

All releases: Releases · jrhubott/adaptive-cover-pro · GitHub

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Just found this integration this morning, and looks like a great evolution from the original Adaptive Cover integration. With the original, I still had to maintain automations to control turning automation on/off because of certain conditions. This seems to cover every configuration option I could think of, and much more! I've set up 1 blind as a test, and envision moving all my blind control over.

My only question, derived from having the terribly unreliable Fyrtur blinds, does the integration have a check/retry system built in to ensure the blind properly responded to the command?

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Thanks for this integration!

What are the best settings for screens covering a tilted window? Like this.

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I had not checked the integration in several weeks and I now see there is an adaptive-cover-pro-card and wow...this looks so practical for setting up/debugging!

Add https://github.com/jrhubott/adaptive-cover-pro-card as a custom repository (category: Lovelace).

Didn't you mean (type: Dashboard)?