🪟 Cover Groups

The Cover Groups feature automatically creates a cover group in Home Assistant for each area, grouping all the cover entities assigned to that area. This allows you to control multiple covers—such as blinds, shutters, or garage doors—using a single entity.

Warning

⚠️ If an area has no cover entities, no group will be created.

This makes it easier to control multiple covers—such as blinds, shutters, or garage doors—in a single area using just one entity.

🛠️ Example Automations

🔆 Open all window shades in the morning

alias: Open All Shades at Sunrise
trigger:
  - platform: sun
    event: sunrise
action:
  - service: cover.open_cover
    target:
      entity_id:
        - cover.living_room
        - cover.bedroom
        - cover.kitchen
mode: single

Info

Each cover. entity here refers to the automatically created area group, such as cover.living_room if your living room has covers. The actual entity_id generated by Magic Areas are much larger to prevent conflicts. You can find the specific entity_id via the UI on the entity's properties.

🚘 Close all garage doors at night

alias: Close All Garage Doors at Night
trigger:
  - platform: time
    at: "22:00:00"
action:
  - service: cover.close_cover
    target:
      entity_id:
        - cover.garage
        - cover.workshop
mode: single

Helpful for ensuring all covers tagged as garage doors are closed before bed or when leaving the house.