First things first. I have a set of 3 Z wave blinds and an outdoor Somfy awning. Both are on the same wall of my house. The blinds work flawlessly with no issues. I have a ton of options setup for my blinds for temperature, weather, etc. I have about everything setup on the blinds except the presence and they work flawlessly.
Due to the issues, I have been facing with the awning I have trimmed down the options, so I am using very little. I figured I would start simple and add on.
First thing, the post a couple up. My awning has never reported manual override running. I have tried moving it with the remote, moving it via my Bond bridge (How I control Somfy devices in HA), and moving it in HA. None result in a manual override switch going active.
I seem to have the awning working OK right now. Two issues I have seen:
My awning reports in HA that when it is at 100% that means it is retracted/pulling in/not extended, and 0% means it is out and fully extended. Due to that I use the swap controls in this integration so 100% becomes fully out and extended.
When I make other changes in the config it seems to forget that I have selected that option. It shows that the switch is on in the config, but it doesn’t oerate that way. For a day it reverses all the percentages, and when I want it fully extended then it is retracted and vice versa. This lasts for a day or until I catch it. I go back in and turn off the switch, save, then turn it back on and then it will start working again.
Second issue: At the end of the day, when the sun goes down all of my blinds do as I have them selected to do in the integration and it works flawlessly every day. My awning is supposed to retract when the sun goes down. Every night it sits there fully extended and won’t do anything until I close it with the remote. It does not matter if I hit the point the sun goes down OR if I reach the end time when it should return to the default. Neither results in the awning retracting. Here is my config so if anyone has any ideas I am all ears.
Your Cover
Horizontal Awning controlling cover.deck_awning
2.8447999999999998m awning, angled at 5.0°, 2.032m window height, blocking sun 0.508m from wall
Cover Warnings
⚠️ cover.deck_awning has assumed_state — real position cannot be read back, which may affect position verification and delta-bypass.
How It Decides (first matching rule wins)
✋ Manual override: pauses automatic control when you move the cover (pauses for 2 h) [80]
☀️ Tracks the sun (azimuth 270.0°, ±90.0°/90.0° field of view, elevation above 8.0°) and calculates position to block direct sunlight (today: sun in window 13:35 → 20:05) [40]
🕒 from 10:00:00 until 23:00:00.
🌅 After end time/sunset (today ~21:00) → 0%.
🌄 After sunrise (today ~06:02) → 0.0% (tracking resumes).
🔚 Move to default position at end time: on
🔚 End-of-window position → 0% from end time until sunset (then the sunset position applies, if set).
🌙 Default (no rule matches) → 0.0% [0]
Position Limits
Range: 0.0%–100.0% · Default: 0.0% · Min change: 10.0% · Min interval: 10.0 min · Position tolerance: 3.0% · 📍 Position matching on (re-sends until the cover reaches target) · Inverse state · Open/close threshold: 50.0%
🎛️ My-preset entities: enabled
🎛️ Somfy My preset: 75.0% (used where enabled above)
Proxy cover: disabled
Decision Priority (highest wins, ✅ active ❌ not configured)
❌Weather → ✅Manual → ❌Motion → ❌Cloud → ❌Climate → ✅Solar → ✅Default
