Cover - Window Cover Horizontal Slat Entity State Always - Unknown

[tommyjlong]

The problem

cover.xxxxx_horizontal_slats_angle Always shows unknown state.

Somewhere along the way, ZWavejs and/or iBlinds changed how the horizontal slats are controlled and managed. The Window Covering v1 CC is now being used and has replaced the MultiLevel CC. After having ZwaveJS-UI re-interview one of my iBlinds, this conversion took place automatically. The result is the entity cover.xxxxx that seemingly was associated with the MultilevelCC is no longer available, and a new entity cover.xxxxx_horizontal_slats_angle was created.

The new entity cover.xxxxx_horizontal_slats_angle can actually control my blinds, but the state is always unknown.

I'll reference a few discussion I have come across on this topic:
#103268
zwave-js/node-zwave-js#5686
home-assistant/architecture#908
home-assistant/architecture#979

What version of Home Assistant Core has the issue?

Version core-2023.12.3 Installation Type Home Assistant OS Development false Supervisor true Docker true User root Virtual Environment false Python Version 3.11.6 Operating System Family Linux Operating System Version 6.1.63-haos CPU Architecture x86_64 Timezone America/New_York Configuration Directory /config

What was the last working version of Home Assistant Core?

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What type of installation are you running?

Home Assistant OS

Integration causing the issue

zwavejs

Link to integration documentation on our website

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Diagnostics information

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Example YAML snippet

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Anything in the logs that might be useful for us?

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Additional information

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[tommyjlong]

The following may be indicative of problems caused by state always being "unknown".

The Group shown has two Window Covers horizontal slats as members of the group. Each horiz slat has current_tilt_position=0. The Group also has current_tilt_position=0 but notice the icon in the lower right "Preview" showing the blinds as being open.

[tommyjlong]

And here is what the icon looks like (its showing open) for one of these Window Coverings Horiz Slats that has tilt postion = 0

[tommyjlong]

Is there an owner for this?

[raman325]

this is primarily a Home Assistant limitation that leaves the state as unknown. The state of a cover entity is based on its position, not its tilt, so a tilt only cover does not have a state. You can see my architecture discussion/proposal here related to this: home-assistant/architecture#908

[Lonestar10]

Is there a fix for this horizontal slat issue? Does it only affect iBlinds products? My iBlinds have been working for several years now. But adding a new iBlinds device introduced this crippling problem for the new blind.