Hi,
whats worng here? Test is ok, but syntax is wrong?
Thanks for helping out
Tht one looks ok to me. Are there any more templates defined below?
no
But can’t find any relevant samples to show how to set up a temlate cover. The documentation includeed isn’t very elpful.
What do you want the template cover to do? You already seem to have a cover entity to get the state from? The template can for instance used to create a cover from e.g. switch entities and sensors to detect end states. What do you have in Home Assistant that you want to look like, and control like it is a cover?
I get the same if you only put that line in, look right at the bottom of the dialog and it says it needs more
Adding an action:
I have a roof window plus blindes and the both shouldn’t collide, if possible.
Yes, found out that you get error messages during typing … ok, this isn’t reeally an errpr, because work isn’t done so far. Ok, accepted
Now I havee the probleem to set the position. I only want to hand it over, no changes for now. Docu says its calles ‘position’, but no idea how to note it down in yaml, tried lot of syntax, nothing works.
data:
position: {{ position }}
Didn't work, for exampleYou’re missing quotes around the template.
data:
position: "{{ position }}"
You can’t pull the position out of thin air, you need to tell it what to get the position from. Below is an adapted version of a cover of mine. I may have made some typo’s simplyfying it for you, but this is what it could look like. You can use the GUI to build something similar but then you need to remove the outer quotes from the templates.
- cover:
- name: "Rechter keukengordijn"
device_class: shade
state: "{{ states('cover.onveilig_kkgordijn_rechts') }}"
position: "{{ state_attr('cover.onveilig_kkgordijn_rechts', 'current_position') | int(0) }}"
availability: "{{ has_value('cover.onveilig_kkgordijn_rechts') }}"
open_cover:
- if:
- condition: state
entity_id: binary_sensor.openclose_11
state: 'off'
then:
- action: cover.open_cover
target:
entity_id: cover.onveilig_kkgordijn_rechts
action: script.open_keukengordijn_rechts
close_cover:
- if:
- condition: state
entity_id: binary_sensor.openclose_11
state: 'off'
then:
- action: cover.close_cover
target:
entity_id: cover.onveilig_kkgordijn_rechts
stop_cover:
- action: cover.stop_cover
target:
entity_id: cover.onveilig_kkgordijn_rechts
Oh, yes, now it works
Where is the yaml code of this templates stored?, have seven window/cover combinations and with the UI tool which produces phantom errors, it is tedious ,
UI does not store yaml.
Oh my god. So no chance to get this template working.
Problem:
I managed to have one, but with endleess ckicking, now as I know the result I want a second but get the error:
And I do EXACTLY the same as before.
I also get this errors at my first try, but after some clicking it works magically.
Is there another way to create a cover template?
Covers require an open and a close action. That’s non-negotiable with cover entities. You are not providing them.
What are you even trying to do? You’re taking an existing cover entity and making it into another cover? That seems odd.
No!
My roof window has a blind (outside). When I open the roof window (electrically) and the blind is down … collision. Same when I close the blind and window is open.
It make sense to have templates!!
This is the only way I find to intersept commands and inject the appropriate precoutions.
Ok then, you need to provide the minimum to make a working cover:
- name
- state
- open_cover
- close_cover
If you need to have postion, then you also need to include a position template and set position
You can create them either in the UI or yaml. The UI as said does not crete yaml. Mine was made in yaml because I use features not available in the UI (that I stripped out to simplify the example).
Thanks. Is there a chance to do such things with a blueprint?
There are also template blueprints, but these do not have GUI support yet. So configuration still needs to be done in YAML.