"Faking" garage door states like closing, opening

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Apologies for resurrecting this topic, but is this custom component still a working solution 2.5 years later?

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I’ve finally updated my Home Assistant and have also updated the code in the repo to work with the newer versions ( 2023.11.3).

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This is great, thank you. I’m also running a setup with just one magnetic reed sensor for closed and with your component I’ve got this faking the opening and closing status.

This is the code that I’m using:

cover:
  - platform: pcc
    covers:
      garage_door:
        device_class: garage
        friendly_name: "Garage Door"
        unique_id: garage_door_cover
        # travelling_time_down: 17 #not needed with closed sensor
        travelling_time_up: 15
        value_template: >-
          {{ is_state('binary_sensor.garage_door_garage_door_contact', 'on') }}
        open_cover:
          service: switch.turn_on
          target:
            entity_id: switch.garage_door_trigger
        close_cover:
          service: switch.turn_off
          target:
            entity_id: switch.garage_door_trigger
        stop_cover:
          service: switch.turn_off
          target:
            entity_id: switch.garage_door_trigger

Two things that I’ve noticed:

  • While home assistant is booting, the cover shows as open while binary_sensor.garage_door_garage_door_contact is unavailable. I would have thought the template would return false in that condition.
  • travelling_time_up: 15 seems to override value_template: - I can see this by closing the door shortly after opening it. The state stays as opening for the full 15 seconds, then goes straight to closed.

Great custom component, maybe this can be done with the template platform but I wasn’t able to achieve it - thankyou

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For anyone using this in late 2024. ( me, I just started using it. =) )

Noted that when I tried to use it the PCC-entity was not created.
Found in the logs that it had some deprecation warnings and was not thread safe.

Created a pull request that solves these issues and now the entity is created successfully.

Removed SUPPORT_* will be deprecaded in 2025 warning

Note: There is still a unfixed issue when restarting HA that I did not solve (noted in the pull req).