Creating a fake shade entity that wraps another?

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I have a set of wireless shades and I’ve learned that occasionally the shades seem to “sleep”. That is, they don’t respond to the first command, but will respond to the second. Usually I handle this by doing something like this: press up, observe nothing is happening, then press down (to put the state of the shade back to down), then press up. This happens about once per day with a random shade.

I was thinking that I could create something that wraps the shade entity so that whenever up or down is pressed (either in home assistant, or in homekit, which access the shades through home assistant), I actually send two commands (up twice) or three (up, down, up).

I assume this means creating a cover template, with:
value_template, icon_template, availability_template set to the value of the underlying cover
open_cover, close_cover, etc. set to a script that sends the commands to the underlying cover twice

Does this make sense? Am I missing anything? Would there be any way to do this more automatically, rather than writing this out manually for 12 different covers?

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That’s the way I’d do it. You don’t need to use scripts though. The cover action options will take a list of actions. e.g.

        open_cover:
          - service: script.open_source_cover
          - delay: 0.25 # adjust as necessary 
          - service: script.close_source_cover
          - delay: 0.25
          - service: script.open_source_cover
        close_cover:
          - service: script.close_source_cover
          - delay: 0.25
          - service: script.open_source_cover
          - delay: 0.25
          - service: script.close_source_cover