Hi All
I am brand new to home assistant having only installed it about an hour ago so there are probably some concepts that I am missing!
As the title says I am trying to setup a movie mode scene that closes my blinds. I have added the blinds to my scene, saved the scene and tried it but my blinds do not close!
I think that the problem is probably that my blinds do not report their status or position (somfy roller blinds) so home assistant does not know what state they are in when saving the scene.
Is there any way I can add a script or something to my scene so that whne it’s activated is closes the blind?
Thanks
Not really, which is why I basically never use scenes anymore and do everything with scripts (except in the future maybe save/restore state). There is a workaround I could think of, but it is a pain to maintain:
Add a boolean input helper, turn it on with a scene. Create an automation to trigger the script when the boolean helper turns on, and turn the boolean helper off again so it is ready for next time.
The problem, you cannot edit the scene with the automation active, as the automation will turn off the boolean. A delay turning the boolean off may help, but it still isn’t pretty.
If you ever only operate the blinds using HA, I’d also consider creating a template cover with an assumed state, so Home Assistant has a guess in which position the blinds are. But then again, that may fail if the guessed position is wrong. A script forcing the state you want never fails.
Once you are used to writing scripts, these are just as easy as scenes, but allow you to put logic in them. So scripts are my goto, also for what you’d call scenes. Also, because scenes put way more in the yaml file that I’d want to set using the scene, that hurts on my slightly autistic nature 
Kidding aside: that may also involve settings that are supposed to be configuration. If I change that configuration later, I do not want a scene to revert it by mistake.
Where scenes do come in handy: you can save the state of any device on the fly (except your cover) and restore that state later on. That is the only thing I would not know how to do with only a script.
thanks for the reply. That was preetty much the conclusion I was coming to. I have got a solution working where I save the state of all the lights in the room using a scene but control the blinds with an additional action.
I am a pretty experience node red user and written a few nodes myself so I am not afraid of scripts! Just getting used to the new environment in Home Assistant.
I found this thread as I was trying to set and Automation for multiple blinds and it failed with scenes and with multiple sequential actions too 
Just letting you know, in case that helps, that I got it working using a single automation with multiple actions in parallel, one for each blind. 