@finity, my friend, it works like a charm, everything seems to be perfect!!! I was watching the cover coming down in 10% incrementals!!! Wohooooo! Now I just have to fine tune azimuth and percentage matrix, I hope I can do it on my own, if I’m lost, I might be asking your help again…
Thank you very much pal, you’re my hero!!!
And you’re totally right, I’m gonna group these little bastards and I’ll be done with 3 automations in total instead of 80
You also absolutely have a good point on the condition you mentioned, so to have the possibility for human interference, and by human, I obviously mean WIFE
I’ve read here somewhere that you always have to consider the WAF, aka the Wife Acceptance Factor, when building automations
I was thinking about a way to cancel the whole automation (for an hour? for 24 hours? until midnight??) IF the switch was pressed on the wall… but I wonder how can I catch that event (as I mentioned, the shutter is controlled by a Shelly 2.5).
To have a weather condition I already set up a cloudiness sensor based on openweather integration, I’m curious how will work out.
To take into account the season (winter, spring, and late autumn I guess I’m gonna use Suns’s elevation, I think that will be a good start, we’ll see…
@squirtbrnr, you can definitely try @finity’s solution, because it does work for this purpose, pretty good. And yes, this is a GREAT community. I’m using HA for a year now, nothing complex that I couldn’t solve on my own, and this was my first post to ask for the community’s help, and boom, here we are, with a great helpful attitude and a perfect solution (I mean, at least for me). Can’t thank enough Finity.
After easter I set up the rest of the covers, watch how the whole thing work out, and report back, and later sum it up in the opening post marking the working solution for future generations
Have a happy and relaxing easter, stay safe and healthy wherever you’re in the world, may covid avoid you and the force be with you