Currently, creating ZHA groups with covers does not result in a new HA entity (the documentation does not mention that groups are available for covers, though it does still allow a user to create one).
The workaround for this is to create a group in HA, but this means that a call to close all the blinds in a group causes a.command to be sent for each blind. I have 6 IKEA blinds in one group, and I find that there is often one blind that doesn’t close, or one blind that lags behind. If ZHA groups worked with covers, that would mean just one single command to open/close the group.
My workaround is to just send the command twice (one 60 seconds after the first) and hope that they all close. It works the vast majority of the time, but it’s definitely not ideal. And that only works for timed automations…using the remote or voice commands is a headache.
Any progress on this? I’ve got one Ikea blind and one Third Reality blind and I can only even select the Ikea blind as an option in the group. The TR blind won’t even show up even though they are almost identical and both paired to ZHA. This may be more of an issue with the TR driver? I set both covers to device type Blinds. All this would be irrelevant if the group won’t work anyways. Will it work with Z2M? I’m not too far invested to not make the switch.
Is this on a roadmap at all? It would be extremally useful to have this option for other entitles not just lights and switches…
This is available on Z2M and is one of the features I miss since moving to ZHA.
Running in to the same issue in the 2023.03. Can add blinds to a zha group but no entity seems to be created. Either creating the entity or throwing an error of some sort when trying to create a group would both be preferable to the current behaviour.
Hi and first at all excuse me for my english
i’m try to create a group in zha for my cover, they all working well separatly, and all the same model.
for each item they are 3 identities
and i things when the group is created only one identitie is created and no the one whe want
so the created group is a switch instead of a cover one
hope it will help the programmer to understant the issue
Thanks everyone for devellopment and help
Eric
