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Ha Openings by beclab — Agent Skill

Name: Ha Openings
Author: beclab

Ha Openings

Control Home Assistant covers, locks, valves, garage doors, and gates with hass-cli: open/close/stop covers, set position and tilt, lock/unlock, open/close valves. Use for 'open the blinds', 'close the garage', 'set shades to 50%', 'lock the front door' requests. All control goes through service call.

beclab 6313d11 1.9 KB Updated Sep 17, 2026

File contents

ha-openings

Covers (blinds/shades/garage/gate), locks, valves. Prerequisites: ../ha-shared/SKILL.md, ../ha-services/SKILL.md.

Covers (`cover.*`)

hass-cli service call cover.open_cover  --arguments entity_id=cover.living_blinds
hass-cli service call cover.close_cover --arguments entity_id=cover.living_blinds
hass-cli service call cover.stop_cover  --arguments entity_id=cover.living_blinds

# Position 0 (closed) .. 100 (open)
hass-cli service call cover.set_cover_position --data '{"entity_id":"cover.living_blinds","position":50}'

# Tilt (venetian blinds)
hass-cli service call cover.set_cover_tilt_position --data '{"entity_id":"cover.living_blinds","tilt_position":30}'

Check support with hass-cli state get cover.x -o json → attributes.supported_features / current_position.

Locks (`lock.*`)

hass-cli service call lock.lock   --arguments entity_id=lock.front_door
hass-cli service call lock.unlock --arguments entity_id=lock.front_door
# Some locks require a code:
hass-cli service call lock.unlock --data '{"entity_id":"lock.front_door","code":"1234"}'

Valves (`valve.*`)

hass-cli service call valve.open_valve  --arguments entity_id=valve.water_main
hass-cli service call valve.close_valve --arguments entity_id=valve.water_main
hass-cli service call valve.set_valve_position --data '{"entity_id":"valve.water_main","position":25}'

Garage doors and gates are usually cover.* entities with device classes garage/gate; use the cover services above.

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