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Adaptive Cover Pro

Home Assistant custom integration that controls vertical blinds, horizontal awnings, and venetian (tilt) blinds based on sun position — filtering direct sunlight while maximizing natural light, with climate-aware operation.

Builds on the template sensor from the HA community forum post Automatic Blinds.

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🚀 New install	Installation → First-Time Setup → Cover Types
🔄 Migrating	From Custom Repository · From Adaptive Cover
🧠 Understand the logic	How It Decides · Basic Mode · Climate Mode · Enhanced Geometric Accuracy
📐 Cover type config	Vertical · Horizontal · Tilt · Venetian
⚙️ Configure	Sun Tracking · Position · Glare Zones · Automation · Custom Position · Force Override · Weather Safety · Climate · Blindspot · Debug & Diagnostics
🔌 Entities & services	Entities · Runtime Services · Position Verification · My Position Support (Somfy RTS)
🎨 Dashboard	Lovelace Card · Sky Compass Card
🔧 Advanced use cases	Dynamic Temperature Thresholds · Dynamic Tracking Window · Bedroom Sleep Mode
🛠️ Something wrong?	Troubleshooting · Known Limitations
🧪 Testing & simulation	Testing the Algorithms · Simulation Notebook
📚 Reference	References · Credits · Solar Math Review
👩‍💻 For developers	Overview · Setup · Workflow · Testing · Release Process · AI-Assisted Development

Highlights

• Four cover types — vertical blinds, horizontal awnings, tilt covers, venetian (dual-axis)
• Basic & Climate modes — geometric sun tracking + a temperature-aware strategy for winter / summer / intermediate
• 10-handler override pipeline — force override → weather → manual → custom position → motion → cloud suppression → climate → glare zones → solar → default
• Safety overrides — force override (rain/wind/fire), weather safety, manual override that pauses on physical/app/voice moves
• Always-on diagnostics — decision trace, sun position, position verification; debug mode without YAML
• 15 runtime services (v2.18.0+) — change any setting from automations without opening the Options UI
• Enhanced geometric accuracy — angle-dependent safety margins, optional window depth and sill height

Full feature list → Features.

Upstream

Inspired by and originally forked from Adaptive Cover by Bas Brussee (@basbruss), whose ideation and base implementation sparked this project. Adaptive Cover Pro has since grown into a substantially different codebase with a new architecture and feature set, but the original vision deserves real credit.

Original forum post that inspired both projects: Automatic Blinds.