Controlling a cover conected to a shelly 2PM via KNX switch

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Hi,

I’m struggling to control a new cover which I have connected to a shelly 2PM via the HA integrated KNX switch. Controlling the cover using the native shelly integration works fine - hence the problem is related to the KNX integration.

This is what I did so far:
I created two KNX addresses in ETS (one for up/down and one for stopp) like I would do it for a KNX actor controlled cover. I have assigned the two groups to a KNX switch. I have also linked the two addresses to HA like this:

knx:

  binary_sensor:

    - name: "Taster Sonnensegel"

      state_address: "5/1/25"

    - name: "Taster Sonnensegel stopp"

      state_address: "5/1/26"

I assume that the problem sits with that configuration as I only treat the switch like a binary sensor were in reality the data they submit is not binary. But I didn’t find anything more sensible in the KNX integration documentation. Did someone manage to get something like that implemented and can point me to the right way of doing this?

Thanks

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what is it then? Covers are usually triggered by DPT 1 telegrams.

The connonical way to do this would be Events (knx_event) instead of binary sensors since your actions are state-less. Binary sensors keep an internal state and only trigger actions if the state changed - which eg. for the “stopp” sensor probably never happens as it always receives a 1.

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Thanks. knx_event was the needed hint. Switching to knx_events made it work!