Automating Your Smart Blinds with Home Assistant

Automating Your Smart Blinds with Home Assistant

June 28, 2025

Smart blinds can dramatically improve comfort, energy efficiency, and aesthetics in your smart home.

Why Automate Blinds?

By automating blinds, you can:

  • Reduce heat during summer
  • Wake up naturally with morning sunlight
  • Enhance privacy automatically at night

Required Devices

You'll need:

  • Smart blinds or motors (Zigbee, Matter, or Wi-Fi)
  • A compatible hub (e.g., Home Assistant)
  • Light or temperature sensors (optional)

Home Assistant Integration

Most Zigbee or Wi-Fi blind motors integrate easily with Home Assistant. Once set up, you can:

  • Create schedules
  • Use sunrise/sunset triggers
  • Add voice control (via Siri, Alexa, or Google)

Example Automations

Here are a few useful YAML automations to get started:

1. Close blinds after sunset

alias: Close blinds after sunset
trigger:
  - platform: sun
    event: sunset
action:
  - service: cover.close_cover
    target:
      entity_id: cover.living_room_blinds
mode: single

2. Open blinds at 7:00 AM

alias: Open blinds in the morning
trigger:
  - platform: time
    at: "07:00:00"
action:
  - service: cover.open_cover
    target:
      entity_id: cover.bedroom_blinds
mode: single

3. Open blinds to 50% at sunrise

alias: Open blinds halfway at sunrise
trigger:
  - platform: sun
    event: sunrise
action:
  - service: cover.set_cover_position
    target:
      entity_id: cover.kitchen_blinds
    data:
      position: 50
mode: single
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