Adaptive Cover Pro

Sun-tracking cover automation with an inspectable decision pipeline, full venetian sequencing, glare zones, and a seasonal climate arbiter — for Home Assistant.

Full documentation lives on the Wiki.

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What it does

• Four cover types with full geometric modeling — vertical blinds, horizontal awnings, tilt-only blinds, and venetian blinds; each uses real window and facade geometry, not rules of thumb.
• Inspectable decision pipeline — handlers run in priority order (weather safety, manual, custom positions with templated triggers, climate, glare, solar) and each reports its reason. A decision_trace sensor shows exactly why the cover is at 45% — no black boxes.
• Venetian blinds done properly — dual-axis sequencer waits for the carriage to settle before sending tilt, handles back-rotation across a 45-second post-settle window, and pre-positions tilt on opening to eliminate flicker. Covers KNX, Shelly, and Somfy IO buses.
• Climate mode with a full seasonal arbiter — winter heating, winter insulation, summer cooling, and glare comfort each have independent logic; presence, lux, irradiance, and cloud cover are all suppression inputs.
• Glare zones — name the floor areas you want protected (TV, dining table); the cover deploys further than pure sun tracking when a protected zone would receive direct sun.
• 15 runtime services — every parameter is scriptable from automations; no UI interaction needed to change mode, position limits, or overrides at runtime.

More detail: How It Decides · Climate Mode · Enhanced Geometric Accuracy

Companion Lovelace card

The Adaptive Cover Pro Card turns the integration's sensors into a dashboard you can read at a glance. It's HACS-installable and ships three cards in one bundle.

Sky compass — watch the sun cross each window in real time: its arc through the field of view, the shaded wedge of the cover closing to track it, sunrise and sunset, and the day's elevation curve underneath.

Tile card — one compact row per shade: icon, live position, ↑ ■ ▼ controls, and a badge that tells you which automation is driving the cover right now (Auto, Solar tracking, a Manual override with its expiry and a resume button, Motion, and more). Tap any tile for the full pipeline trace, today's forecast, the compass, and override controls.

Full card — everything in one place: the compass, the elevation chart, the pipeline decision strip with the winning handler highlighted, per-cover position bars, and override controls.

Setup and options: Lovelace Card · Sky Compass Card.

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Quick install

HACS (recommended): In HACS, search Adaptive Cover Pro, download, restart Home Assistant, then add the integration.

Manual: Copy custom_components/adaptive_cover_pro/ into config/custom_components/, restart Home Assistant, and add the integration.

Full steps: Installation · First-Time Setup

Documentation

🚀 Getting started	Installation · First-Time Setup · Cover Types · Migrating from Adaptive Cover
🧠 How it works	How It Decides · Basic Mode · Climate Mode · Enhanced Geometric Accuracy
🎨 Dashboard	Lovelace Card — install, configure, and use the companion card that visualizes the full pipeline
⚙️ Configuration	Sun Tracking · Glare Zones · Weather Safety · Climate · Summary Screen
🔌 Entities & services	Entities · Runtime Configuration Services · Position Verification · Somfy RTS (My Position)
🛠️ Operations	Troubleshooting (incl. stopping false manual overrides) · Known Limitations

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