Covers

A cover card lets you control the position of a Home Assistant cover entity — blinds, shutters, roller shades, or garage doors — by sliding on the card.

Setting up a cover

1. Select a card and change its type to Cover.
2. Enter an Entity ID — the Home Assistant cover entity you want to control (for example, cover.office_blind).
3. Choose an Icon (defaults to a blinds icon when set to Auto).
4. Set a Label (optional) — shown at the bottom of the card. If left blank, the entity's friendly name from Home Assistant is used.
5. Pick a Direction — Vertical (default) or Horizontal.

How it works on the panel

• Drag the slider to set the cover position from 0 (closed) to 100 (fully open). Releasing the slider sends the new position to Home Assistant via cover.set_cover_position.
• The fill bar represents how much the cover is closed — a fully closed cover shows a full bar, and a fully open cover shows an empty bar. This inverted fill matches blinds or shutters blocking a window.
• The fill bar updates in real time as the cover moves, tracking the current_position attribute from Home Assistant.

Change Icon When Open

Enable Change Icon When Open to show a different icon while the cover is open. For example, you could use a closed blinds icon when shut and an open blinds icon when open.

When the cover is fully closed, the card reverts to the default icon.