Awesome! Thank you so much! 
I’m not sure what u just mean by that?
i’snt the shading following the sun elevation set in the sun.sun entity? or does the open/close hour setting is the first to follow?
Please post your yaml and check azimuth values.
If everthing is correct, I bet you set-up everything while conditions were already true, so no trigger applied. For testing this, you can manually change e.g. your tempsensor value to <19 and then back to >19 in developer tools.
Quick question to this blueprint: Does it also work if there is no position that is being sent back from the device? I have some 4-wire motor which cannot send back positions as it cannot be calibrated like that. So it also cannot be used with a shutter controller since then the motor at one point auto-calibrates internally and at some point it will not work correctly any longer until it will be reset. Bottom line, now I have it working but without positions being sent. So does this automation (esp. when it comes to auto shading) can still be used to control the shutter to open/close with no positioning?
I’m sorry, but that won’t work.
New Update:
Please not the breaking change in the schedule helper usage!
It is not possible to find out more about the status of the schedule helper in Home Assistant. I never know whether we are at the beginning or end of the period. However, this is important to avoid bouncing when controlling the brightness, for example. In order to recognise whether we are still in the opening period or the closing period, it is necessary to enter a very rough time period in the time variables in the blueprint.
Example: If the schedule helper goes to the “ON” status at 08:00 and to the “OFF” status at 18:00, it is sufficient to configure the times as follows:Time For Drive Up - Early: 06:00
Time For Drive Up - Late: 12:00Time For Drive Down - Early: 16:00
Time For Drive Down - Late: 22:00The times are not used for triggering, but only to divide the day into two halves!
Changes:
2024.03.21-01:
- Breaking change in the schedule helper usage! You can find the details in the section "Selection of time control options".
- New: Reduction of triggers and thus avoidance of overlaps due to running delays (fixes #40)
- New: Added possibility to disable the use of 'set_cover_position' and 'set_cover_tilt_position' and only use the additional actions
- Fixed: Shading Forecast Weather Conditions
- Fixed: Ventilation mode should not only be ended in the evening, but whenever it is not yet daytime.
- Fixed: Added the ventilation mode activation on closing down again
- Try to avoid overlaps in the execution of the automation if several triggers are triggered shortly after each other.
- Fixed: Optional weather conditions for "shading in" #41
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That means only the shading would not work but the open and close function does, right? Or, if the opening and closing works with this automation, it will also work with the shading and I just cannot use any other position, just 0% to entirely close (which would be fine as this is a shutter covering a wintergarden and when it’s getting to hot, it should close entirely anyways). Sorry, to ask so many questions, I just started to deal with the HA automations since NodeRED became unreliable lately.
Hi @Herr.Vorragend, is this still true? I’d like shading to activate and deactivate depending on the current brightness which can change multiple times a day. Same for ventilation.
Hmm, I’m a little overwhelmed with this post. Please just try it out and then we’ll see what works.
Ventilation can of course be activated several times a day.
If you use the Cover Status Helper, shading is only activated once a day. This was important to me because manual corrections should not be overridden.
But I could make this configurable. It’s actually a good idea. Could you open a ticket for this in GitHub? Thank you.
Sure, I will… I might have found a workaround as well. Thanks and thanks for this blueprint as well!
Hi, is it correct that the cover does not return to its original state before ventilation?
Or is this a misconfiguration from my side?
The wishes are different. 
For me, it would be easier if I could always go back to the previous position.
In the last release, I really invested a lot of time to make the behavior more logical after the ventilation ends. I needed to know if it was during the day. So the time between opening and closing.
But why?
Because the roller blind only moves up to ventilation if the roller blind was previously closed. So when I close the contact, I check if it’s day or night. Everything remains unchanged during the day. It closes again at night.
Why don’t I just return to the previous position?
Because the time of day may have changed in the meantime.
Hello,
this is totally understandable and everything is very logical if you know the background. I have just discovered the blueprint and am currently at the first tests.
Thank you very much for the great blueprint.
So, it‘s not a bug, it‘s a feature. 
Regards
Nelson
I am happy to be corrected. I don’t always have to be right. If I’m telling total nonsense, then tell me so.
I still have a comprehension problem. I would like the roller shutter to move to 20 % when it is closed during ventilation and fully open when the window is completely open.
How is this recognised via a 2-way contact sensor?
What values do I need to set for the following options?
- Ventilate position
- Ventilate Tilt Position
- Open position
- Open Tilt Position
- Close Position
- Close Tilt Position
Thx
I have another question. I would like to implement a frost feature. I have created a threshold helper that is activated when below 0 degrees are reported or it is just colder than -2 degrees. I have just implemented this with an extra automation that checks the helper when the cover reports the status closed. This has the advantage that it also works with manually closed covers. Is this also possible with the blueprint, or should I rather leave it with the extra automation (one automation for all covers)?
I have the ventilation position at 25%, the open position at 100% and the closed position at 0%. A window contact (binary sensor, open/closed) is built into the window. This assumes the corresponding state. When you open the window, the binary contact turns open and the ventilation position is started. When it’s night and the window is closed, it goes to 0% or closes the cover again.
Since I only have shutters, I always choose the same value for the tilt position as for the position.