Make door lock appear to be a garage

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Hi,

This might be a bit of an odd one but I’m trying to make my Yale SL (via August integration) appear to be also a Garage Door. The reason for it is that Apple CarPlay lets me unlock a Garage but not my front door via the dashboard shortcut that appears when close to home.

I’ve tried to do this via a cover template but I think I’m missing something:

cover:    
- platform: template
  covers:
  garage_door:
  device_class: garage
  friendly_name: "Garage Test Door"
  position_template: "{{ states('lock.door') }}"
  open_cover:
  - service: lock.unlock
   data:
    entity_id: lock.door
  close_cover:
  - service: lock.lock
    data:
    entity_id: lock.door
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Indentation is off and you shouldn’t use postion_template, among others.

Carefully read the meaning of each field in the docs and look at the examples for correct indentation.

Try this:

cover:    
  - platform: template
      covers:
        garage_door:
          device_class: garage
          friendly_name: "Garage Test Door"
          value_template: "{{ is_state('lock.door', 'unlocked') }}"
          open_cover:
            - service: lock.unlock
              target:
                entity_id: lock.door
          close_cover:
            - service: lock.lock
              target:
                entity_id: lock.door

Note: This is untested and I don’t have smart locks to simulate this.

EDIT: Fixed the cover state.

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Looks good Pieter, except this:

value_template: "{{ states('lock.door') }}"

Should be:

value_template: "{{ is_state('lock.door', 'unlocked') }}"

So when the lock is unlocked the garage door state is open.

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Thanks for catching. I’ll update my post.

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Brilliant that worked! Thanks to both of you!