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Cover ​

A cover card lets you control a Home Assistant cover entity — blinds, shutters, roller shades, gates, or garage doors — from one modal control card, as a direct slider, as a toggle, or as a one-tap command.

Cover card showing a blinds icon with a position fill bar

Setting Up a Cover ​

  1. Select a card and change its type to Cover.
  2. Choose the interaction:
    • Modal opens a full-screen control with tabs for simple controls, position, and tilt.
    • Slider: Position lets you drag to a precise cover position.
    • Slider: Tilt lets you drag to a precise cover tilt position.
    • Toggle opens or closes the cover with a tap.
    • Open, Close, and Stop send that exact cover command.
    • Set Position sends the cover to the fixed percentage you enter.
  3. Your Home Assistant cover entity needs to support tilt for Slider: Tilt mode to work.
  4. Enter an Entity — the Home Assistant cover entity you want to control (for example, cover.office_blind).
  5. Set a Label (optional) — shown at the bottom of the card. If left blank, the entity's friendly name from Home Assistant is used.
  6. Choose icons:
    • Slider and Toggle modes use Closed Icon and Open Icon.
    • Open, Close, Stop, and Set Position use one Icon.

How It Works on the Panel ​

  • Tap the card to open the full-screen cover controls.
  • The Simple Controls tab has three actions: Up, Stop, and Down.
  • The Position tab lets you drag the cover position from 0 to 100 percent.
  • The Tilt tab appears only when the Home Assistant cover entity supports tilt, and lets you drag the cover tilt from 0 to 100 percent.
  • Position and tilt update when Home Assistant reports current_position and current_tilt_position.

Slider Interaction ​

  • Drag the slider to set the selected cover value from 0 to 100.
  • In Position mode, releasing the slider sends the new position to Home Assistant via cover.set_cover_position.
  • In Tilt mode, releasing the slider sends the new tilt value to Home Assistant via cover.set_cover_tilt_position.
  • The fill bar is always vertical and 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 current_position in Position mode and current_tilt_position in Tilt mode.

Toggle Interaction ​

  • Tap the card to toggle the cover through Home Assistant.
  • The card lights up while the cover is closed or closing.
  • When the cover state changes, the label temporarily shows the Home Assistant state, such as Open, Closed, Opening, or Closing.
  • After the state settles, the card changes back to showing the configured label.

Command Interactions ​

  • Open sends cover.open_cover.
  • Close sends cover.close_cover.
  • Stop sends cover.stop_cover.
  • Set Position sends cover.set_cover_position with the configured position from 0 to 100.
  • Command cards briefly flash when tapped. They do not stay highlighted based on the live cover state.

Cover Icons ​

Slider and Toggle cover cards use two icons: one for the closed state and one for the open or partially open state. Command cover cards use one icon.