Open Covers Slowly

Feature Requests
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In automations, if I choose to turn a light on or off, I am presented with the option to set a transition duration over which the change takes place. This allows me to ramp the lights up or down slowly.

Since lights and covers both support dimming / positions between 0 and 100%, I would like to be able to open a cover at my wake up time but slowly over a period of time (say 3 minutes) rather than just fully opening them.

The transition feature is not available when choosing cover.open as the action in an automation. Is there a reason this cannot be added just like the lights?

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Yes there is a reason.

The light transition is actually part of the light hardware. Some support it, some don’t.

I have never seen a cover with this available.

You are going to have to automate it. Could be as simple as moving 5% every 9 seconds in a loop until you reach 100% at the 3 minute mark.

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So just to be clear, HA isn’t telling the lights to change a little bit at a time, it’s telling the light to change to brightness x over duration y as a single instruction?

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It was proposed, but there was not enough interest to have it implemented.

This entirely depends on the hardware. Z-Wave supports transitions for both lights and covers, for example. It’s just an extra value provided in the command sent to actuate the device.

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Correct. It sends a transition command to the light. The light takes care of the transition.

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