Edit: Find the completed Cover Control here
Hi all,
I created this
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It was working fine as long I was using above_horizon and beyond_horizon as an trigger. But as they did not match my needs, I decided to use sun elevation leverl and created an sensor in HA where I put that state:
- platform: template
sensors:
sonnenstand:
friendly_name: "Sonnenstand"
unit_of_measurement: '°'
value_template: "{{ state_attr('sun.sun', 'elevation') }}"
The sensor seems to be working fine, however the automation never gets triggered. Now I have an idea why already: The sensor is only updated in intervals (I think because sun is only updated in intervals?) and therefore the sensor does not get each value (i.e. -2.8, -2.7, -2.6…) but only the value thats there when the update interval hits. So it happens that my sensor never gets set to the value I chose to trigger…
Any suggestions how to mitigate this? I thought of putting a < -2.5 instead of = -2.5 (like in an example here https://www.home-assistant.io/cookbook/automation_sun/). but then again this would be triggered on every update in the morning or evening that is below that value.
Next was that I thought that again could be mitigated by creating an input_boolean, that is switched on on the first occasion and switched off later (i.e. after the tim ranges I defined for morning / evening) and run the tasks only when the switch is off. That would work I think but seems like an overkill to me.
Any input is welcome 
