Thatās HA dependent. Eg. the Rademacher (german manufacturer) integration is reporting exactly the opposite, and the data needs to be reverted, before it getās send to HA (very laymans terms). 
In HA itself 0 = closed and 100 = open. 
EDIT: Donāt worry, I couldnāt have answered your post without prior checking on one of my blinds! 
This is something I just canāt remember after five minutesā¦
Impressive blueprint !
Do you think it could be easely transform for manage tilt of exterior venetian blind ?
Venetian blind is always 100% close but the tilt change for maximise the light without any sun to come inside during the dayā¦ I guess d=0 and tilt remplace the h ?
Thanks for your help !
Hi. I think you are trying to follow the sun with the tilts? This is not really meant for that, but it is a very similar problem.
Yes itās similar but i donāt find any blueprintā¦
I made it works like that :
Thank you for template, it was a great source of inspiration !
Nice. You could also use a template to follow the sun, so the sun is always hitting the slats at 90 degrees to maximize the amount of light. But itās not really necessary.
For everyone interested!
In the meantime I have build a small custom-integration based on the calculations with adding some more useful features. 
For now it supports:
Iāve installed the Blueprint but I can never get the shades to close. The conditions are never met.
Azimuth: 163
Distance 4m
Height: 2.1
Min: 0
Default: 60%
Min Cover: 0%
FOV
90
90
90
90
Min Elev: 0
Min change: 1%
Timeout: 1 min
Hereās the trace of the shade that never closes. What do I have set incorrectly?
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I do notice you do have a quiet large (work-area) distance set. The larger the distance, the closer the sunās elevation must be to the horizon to close the cover.
Did you try to lower the distance?
EDIT:
I think to see youāre using the device_id to setup the entity. But you should rather select the entity_id for the entity selection.
Both of your suggestions were spot on for this Noob (I should have caught those) but changing from Device to Entity causes an error. The messages above mentioned this type of error but the new version of the BP should have fixed it. Iām on version 1.1.2.
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"error": "ValueError: Template error: int got invalid input 'None' when rendering template '{%- set ns = namespace(list_1=[],name_1=[],list_2=[],name_2=[]) %} {%- set entity = cover_entity['entity_id'] -%} {%- if entity is iterable and (entity is not string and entity is not mapping) -%}\n {%- set cover = entity -%}\n{%- else -%}\n {%- set cover = [entity] -%}\n{%- endif -%} {%- for c in cover %}\n {%- set position = state_attr(c,'current_position') | int -%}\n {%- set con_1 = ((position - cover_height | float) | abs >= change_threshold)\n or (cover_height in [default_height, default_template] and position not in [default_height, default_template])%}\n {%- set ns.list_1 = ns.list_1 + [con_1] -%}\n {%- set con_2 = now() - timedelta(minutes=time_out) >= states[c].last_updated %}\n {%- set ns.list_2 = ns.list_2 + [con_2] %}\n {%- if con_1 == true -%}\n {%- set ns.name_1 = ns.name_1 + [c] -%}\n {% endif %}\n {%if con_2 == true%}\n {%- set ns.name_2 = ns.name_2 + [c] -%}\n {% endif %}\n{%endfor%} {%- set dict = {\n 'condition_1':ns.list_1,\n 'condition_2':ns.list_2,\n 'names_1':ns.name_1,\n 'names_2':ns.name_2\n } %}\n{{dict}}' but no default was specified",
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},
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"min_position": 8,
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Thanks for this great Automation and Blueprint, first!
Is it possible to edit the Blueprint .yaml to open the blinds whenever there is direct sunlight onto the window?
I made a copy of the blueprint already which I can edit accordingly, but I am not shure where and how.
Background:
I live in a poorly insulated building and I use this blueprint during summer to avoid my living room getting too hot whenever there is direct sunlight. During workdays, I am not home anyway at these times of day.
In Winter, I lower the heating to a certain degree whenever I am away from home, and the blinds close automatically to give some additional insulation.
However, on sunny winter days, I would want to let the sun in instead of keeping it out, thus heating the living room a bit.
Conditions on what is a āsummerā or āwinterā day are set, but how to change the blueprint to work in the reverse way?
Thanks
I donāt think the blueprint can be used in that way. But I shared a template in this thread which may help you: https://community.home-assistant.io/t/automatic-blinds-sunscreen-control-based-on-sun-platform/573818/175?u=langestefan
This will return true whenever there is direct sunlight hitting your window. You can use that in an automation to control the blind
Oh, thanks for pointing me towards your old post, easy to overread for meā¦
I think I can go from there.
I use the UV index to decide whether to lower the blinds or not. It works pretty well in any season and also based on weather conditions. This could be an idea to combine with the angular similarity.
That could work well as a conditional boolean indeed. Itās not a direct replacement for brightness (what you would really like to know) but it does correlate well with it I believe.
How do I set the maximum height the cover will be automatically adjusted too?
Did I miss the obvious post on how to run the simulation?
Simulation is just the python notebook. Not much to explain
Just to share where this has gone since summer when I shared this: I now have a couple input booleans that I added to this. I use those to allow ānap timeā which keeps the shades closed in my bedroom even when all other inputs say they should remain open. I also have a āwork modeā which keeps my office shade closed about 75% when it is bright (because my office has 8 foot high south facing windows and I cannot see my monitor!).