Home Assistant

MQTT Cover

The mqtt cover platform allows you to control an MQTT cover (such as blinds, a rollershutter, or a garage door).

The device state (open or closed) will be updated only after a new message is published on state_topic matching state_open or state_closed. If these messages are published with the retain flag set, the cover will receive an instant state update after subscription and Home Assistant will display the correct state on startup. Otherwise, the initial state displayed in Home Assistant will be unknown.

There is an attribute that stores the relative position of the device, where 0 means the device is closed and all other intermediate positions means the device is open.

If a state topic is not defined, the cover will work in optimistic mode. In this mode, the cover will immediately change state (open or closed) after every command sent by Home Assistant. If a state topic is defined, the cover will wait for a message on state_topic matching state_open or state_closed before changing state in Home Assistant.

Optimistic mode can be forced, even if a state_topic is defined. Try to enable it if experiencing incorrect cover operation.

The mqtt cover platform optionally supports an availability_topic to receive online and offline messages (birth and LWT messages) from the MQTT cover device. During normal operation, if the MQTT cover device goes offline (i.e. publishes payload_not_available to availability_topic), Home Assistant will display the cover as “unavailable”. If these messages are published with the retain flag set, the cover will receive an instant update after subscription and Home Assistant will display correct availability state of the cover when Home Assistant starts up. If the retain flag is not set, Home Assistant will display the cover as “unavailable” when Home Assistant starts up.

To use your MQTT cover in your installation, add the following to your configuration.yaml file:

# Example configuration.yaml entry
cover:
  - platform: mqtt
    name: "MQTT Cover"
    command_topic: "home-assistant/cover/set"

Configuration Variables

name

(string)(Optional)The name of the cover.

Default value: MQTT Cover

command_topic

(string)(Optional)The MQTT topic to publish commands to control the cover.

payload_open

(string)(Optional)The command payload that opens the cover.

Default value: OPEN

payload_close

(string)(Optional)The command payload that closes the cover.

Default value: CLOSE

payload_stop

(string)(Optional)The command payload that stops the cover.

Default value: STOP

state_topic

(string)(Optional)The MQTT topic subscribed to receive cover state messages.

state_open

(string)(Optional)The payload that represents the open state.

Default value: open

state_closed

(string)(Optional)The payload that represents the closed state.

Default value: closed

availability_topic

(string)(Optional)The MQTT topic subscribed to to receive birth and LWT messages from the MQTT cover device. If availability_topic is not defined, the cover availability state will always be available. If availability_topic is defined, the cover availability state will be unavailable by default.

payload_available

(string)(Optional)The payload that represents the online state.

Default value: online

payload_not_available

(string)(Optional)The payload that represents the offline state.

Default value: offline

optimistic

(string)(Optional)Flag that defines if switch works in optimistic mode.

Default value: true if no state topic defined, else false.

qos

(integer)(Optional)The maximum QoS level to be used when receiving and publishing messages.

Default value: 0

retain

(boolean)(Optional)Defines if published messages should have the retain flag set.

Default value: false

value_template

(string)(Optional)Defines a template to extract a value from the payload.

set_position_topic

(string)(Optional)The MQTT topic to publish position commands to.

set_position_template

(string)(Optional) Defines a template to define the position to be sent to the set_position_topic topic. Incoming position value is available for use in the template ``. If no template is defined, the numeric position (0-100) will be written directly to the topic.

tilt_command_topic

(string)(Optional)The MQTT topic to publish commands to control the cover tilt.

tilt_status_topic

(string)(Optional)The MQTT topic subscribed to receive tilt status update values.

tilt_min

(integer)(Optional)The minimum tilt value.

Default value: 0

tilt_max

(integer)(Optional)The maximum tilt value

Default value: 100

tilt_closed_value

(integer)(Optional)The value that will be sent on a close_cover_tilt command.

Default value: 0

tilt_opened_value

(integer)(Optional)The value that will be sent on an open_cover_tilt command.

Default value: 0

tilt_status_optimistic

(boolean)(Optional)Flag that determines if tilt works in optimistic mode.

Default value: true if tilt_status_topic is not defined, else false

tilt_invert_state

(boolean)(Optional)Flag that determines if open/close are flipped; higher values toward closed and lower values toward open.

Default value: false

Examples

In this section you will find some real life examples of how to use this platform.

Full configuration without tilt

The example below shows a full configuration for a cover without tilt.

# Example configuration.yml entry
cover:
  - platform: mqtt
    name: "MQTT Cover"
    command_topic: "home-assistant/cover/set"
    state_topic: "home-assistant/cover/state"
    availability_topic: "home-assistant/cover/availability"
    qos: 0
    retain: true
    payload_open: "OPEN"
    payload_close: "CLOSE"
    payload_stop: "STOP"
    state_open: "open"
    state_closed: "closed"
    payload_available: "online"
    payload_not_available: "offline"
    optimistic: false
    value_template: '{{ value.x }}'

Full configuration

The example below shows a full configuration for a cover.

# Example configuration.yml entry
cover:
  - platform: mqtt
    name: "MQTT Cover"
    command_topic: "home-assistant/cover/set"
    state_topic: "home-assistant/cover/state"
    availability_topic: "home-assistant/cover/availability"
    qos: 0
    retain: true
    payload_open: "OPEN"
    payload_close: "CLOSE"
    payload_stop: "STOP"
    state_open: "open"
    state_closed: "closed"
    payload_available: "online"
    payload_not_available: "offline"
    optimistic: false
    value_template: '{{ value.x }}'
    tilt_command_topic: 'home-assistant/cover/tilt'
    tilt_status_topic: 'home-assistant/cover/tilt-state'
    tilt_min: 0
    tilt_max: 180
    tilt_closed_value: 70
    tilt_opened_value: 180

To test, you can use the command line tool mosquitto_pub shipped with mosquitto or the mosquitto-clients package to send MQTT messages. This allows you to operate your cover manually:

$  mosquitto_pub -h 127.0.0.1 -t home-assistant/cover/set -m "CLOSE"