How to make a Shelly 2.5 Roller Schutter automation

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Hi everybody,

Last week I installed a Shelly 2.5 to operate my roller shutter. The Shelly is behind a physical switch (up/down) so that I can also operate the roller shutter with the switch. Everything is up and running. I added the Shelly to HA via the standard Shelly integration.

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HA found 1 device with 11 entities.

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In develeopertool/states i found 3 entities.

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I can operate my roller shutter (up/down) via the Lovelace dashboard, but I have not yet succeeded in having this done via an automation. Who can help me?

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Try this:

alias: close cover at sunset
description: ''
trigger:
  - event: sunset
    platform: sun
condition: []
action:
    domain: cover
    entity_id: cover.rolluik_woonkamer
    type: set_position
    position: 0
mode: single

this example should close the cover at sunset.
Depending on how you Shelly is configured you might change position 0 with 100 to get the result you want (inverted cover)

or set up the automation via the UI and select device => your cover (entity starting with cover.) and then select the position via the slider.

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The only problem I run into is that the Shelly cannot be calibrated. This probably has something to do with the type of motor in my roller shutter. So… I can’t use the Shelly’s positioning controls. It is only open or closed. I can operate this excellently with the buttons on my Lovelace dashboard. But I want to automate the shutter using HA. And for some reason that doesn’t work for me.

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Did you try to use the services cover.close_cover and cover.open_cover?
You can try this in developer tools and also integrate it in automations.
With

service: cover.close_cover
data: {}
target:
  device_id: your_device_id
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That works! Thanks!

6

Sorry to break in.
where exactly should this code be placed? In configuration.yaml file?

Because I have Shelly 2.5 switches. But when I create an automation via “configuration - automation & scenes”
I created an automation there that should make my shutters close at sunset but nothing happens at all.
So maybe this code can help.

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No, this code is the code of the automation. So if you go to configuration - automation and select your automation and then click edit as YAML, you can paste this code. Please note that you need to change the entity_id to the name of your cover.

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Thanks for the reply. I figured it out via “automations & scenes” in the configuration panel.

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I created this automation, but nothing happens and it gives me this error in the log

#################################################
#                                               #
#                Tapparelle.                    #
#                                               #
#################################################
- alias: "Apertura tapparella ingresso"
  id: "apertura_tapparella_ingresso"
  trigger:
    platform: time
    at:
      - "12:13:00"
  condition: []
  action:
    domain: cover
    entity_id: cover.shelly_shsw_25_68d694
    type: set_position
    position: 0
    mode: single

Logger: homeassistant.config
Source: config.py:508
First occurred: 12:41:24 (1 occurrences)
Last logged: 12:41:24

Invalid config for [automation]: Unable to determine action @ data[‘action’][0]. Got None. (See /config/configuration.yaml, line 12).

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