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For those of you struggling with one of the buttons for the curtains being greyed out: I solved it. It has to do with the slider position. In Home Assistant a slide position of 100 means fully opened and a slide position of 0 is fully closed. In the SwitchBot API it’s the exact opposite: a slide position of 100 is fully closed and 0 is fully opened. The trick is quite simple: subtract the SlidePosition value you get with the API from 100. You have to do the same with setting the position: subtract the value from the slider in HA from 100 and pass the result as a parameter to the SwitchBot API.

As I noticed that the curtains do not always report 0 or 100 if they have been fully opened or closed, but e.g. 1 or 99, I also fixed that, by using an if-statement in the sensor template. Furthermore, I left out the stop_cover command, because the API doesn’t support that.

I used the templates from @gdeboos. This is what the SwitchBot part of my configuration.yaml looks like after my modifications:

# Switchbot setup
rest_command:
  switchbot_device_command:
    url: 'https://api.switch-bot.com/v1.0/devices/{{ deviceId }}/commands'
    method: post
    content_type: 'application/json'
    headers:
      Authorization: !secret switchbot_api
    payload: '{"command": "{{ command }}","parameter": "{{ parameter }}"}'

sensor:
  - platform: rest
    name: 'Positie gordijnen balkon'
    resource: !secret switchbot_balkon_status_url
    method: GET
    scan_interval: 600
    headers:
      Authorization: !secret switchbot_api
      Content-Type: 'application/json'
    value_template: >
      {% if value_json.body.slidePosition > 95 %} 0
      {% elif value_json.body.slidePosition < 5 %} 100
      {% else %} {{100-value_json.body.slidePosition}}
      {% endif %}
    json_attributes_path: "$.body"
    json_attributes:
      - deviceId
      - deviceType
      - hubDeviceId
      - calibrate
      - group
      - moving
      - slidePosition

cover:
  - platform: template
    covers:
      gordijnen_balkon:
        device_class: curtain
        friendly_name: "Gordijnen balkon"
        unique_id: curtain.balkon
        position_template: "{{states('sensor.positie_gordijnen_balkon')}}"
        open_cover:
          service: rest_command.switchbot_device_command
          data:
            deviceId: !secret switchbot_balkon_deviceId
            command: "turnOn"
        close_cover:
          service: rest_command.switchbot_device_command
          data:
            deviceId: !secret switchbot_balkon_deviceId
            command: "turnOff"
        set_cover_position:
          service: rest_command.switchbot_device_command
          data:
            deviceId: !secret switchbot_balkon_deviceId
            command: "setPosition"
            parameter: "0,ff,{{100-position}}"

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As you can see HA reports the position of the curtain for the balcony as 100 (fully opened), while the sensor read-out via the API for SlidePosition is 0.

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