Illuminance aware Covers - Smartly Close Curtains or Blinds when too bright

pavax · July 28, 2023, 10:51am

I’m using the following Blueprint to control several curtains based on the brightness in my Living-Room.

Features

Set the Blinds to the desired Position when it’s too bright for the specified time
Specify one or two Sensors to prevent this automation from reopening the blinds again. Usefully when you don’t want your blinds to open while watching tv. Once the condition is not met anymore (e.g. stopped playing tv), the automation evaluates again if it’s still too bright and then closes your blinds.
When the automation closes your blinds and you decide to manually open them again, the automation is going to wait for the specified time to take back the control before closing them again if it’s still too bright.

Source

gist.github.com

https://gist.github.com/pavax/ed424e1d7bbb1c69b7e33e60d1415b5a

illuminance_aware_cover_control.yaml

blueprint:
  name: Illuminance aware cover control
  description: >
    Close cover based on a illuminance sensor. 
    Allow manual control to open the cover again, but reactivate the automatic control again after a defined time.
    Optionally define state sensors to prevent re-opening again. For Example when a media_player is playing.
  domain: automation
  source_url: https://gist.github.com/pavax/ed424e1d7bbb1c69b7e33e60d1415b5a
  input:
    cover_control:

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Changelog
01.08.2023 - Uploaded new Blueprint that uses if-then-else to determine whether to open or close the cover: Fixes the issue of not opening the covers when a condition-sensor prevented it.