Automating Your Smart Blinds with Home Assistant

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