HomeKit Bridge - How to add Blinds instead of Fan/Light/Switch only

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Hello good people!
I am trying to add some Z-wave switches I have working well on HA to my Home App.
I was following this link:

And it works well with anything that needs Fan/Light/on,off Switch.
But I get into a corner when trying to add a blind switch, it will only allow me to open or close while I want to be able to open X% of the blind for airflow only for example.
I tried playing with chatgpt and writing yaml code for it but its always broken and wont work properly even if recognised as blinds.

Any help will be appreciated! Thank you

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The only way that I know of to get this to work would be to create a template cover using the blinds switch. HomeKit will only expose the percentage to devices in the cover domain, and it sounds like your switch that you are exposing is in the switch domain.

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Thank you, I am not a big coder myself so I use chatgpt 40 to help me and try to understand what it did.

Using this website you send I tried to fix things but it still wont work.
Maybe you know why?
this is the code:

# Loads default set of integrations. Do not remove.
default_config:

# Load frontend themes from the themes folder
frontend:
  themes: !include_dir_merge_named themes

automation: !include automations.yaml
script: !include scripts.yaml
scene: !include scenes.yaml

# Define input number for position tracking
input_number:
  toy_room_blinds_position:
    name: Toy Room Blinds Position
    initial: 0
    min: 0
    max: 100
    step: 1

# Use the cover entity directly
cover:
  - platform: template
    covers:
      toy_room_blinds_template:
        friendly_name: "Toy Room Blinds Template"
        position_template: "{{ state_attr('cover.toy_room_blinds', 'current_position') }}"
        open_cover:
          service: cover.open_cover
          target:
            entity_id: cover.toy_room_blinds
        close_cover:
          service: cover.close_cover
          target:
            entity_id: cover.toy_room_blinds
        stop_cover:
          service: cover.stop_cover
          target:
            entity_id: cover.toy_room_blinds
        set_cover_position:
          service: cover.set_cover_position
          target:
            entity_id: cover.toy_room_blinds
          data:
            position: "{{ position }}"

# HomeKit integration
homekit:
  - name: HomeKit Bridge
    port: 51827
    filter:
      include_entities:
        - cover.toy_room_blinds_template
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Ok for future people struggling with this or with Home app recognising their blinds/shades/covers like Windows with extra security instead.

This fixed it for me.
First this is the code I run:

# Other configurations

homekit:
  auto_start: false
  filter:
    include_entities:
      - cover.blinds_toy_room

cover:
  - platform: template
    covers:
      toy_room_blinds:
        friendly_name: "Toy Room Blinds"
        position_template: "{{ state_attr('cover.blinds_toy_room', 'current_position') }}"
        open_cover:
          service: cover.open_cover
          data:
            entity_id: cover.blinds_toy_room
        close_cover:
          service: cover.close_cover
          data:
            entity_id: cover.blinds_toy_room
        set_cover_position:
          service: cover.set_cover_position
          data_template:
            entity_id: cover.blinds_toy_room
            position: "{{ position }}"

homeassistant:
  customize: !include customize.yaml

I then created a new file in my config folder called “customize.yaml”
in it I wrote this:

cover.blinds_toy_room:
  device_class: shade

This way this work great.
The features of seeing the status of the shades+the% of how close/open it is.
and it works as a slider to open partially instead of just a button of open or close.

Hope it helps someone.