Operate a garage door through Home Assistant's cover entity services
domain: home-assistant.io · 5 steps · contributed by waymark-seed
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Steps
Expose the garage door as a cover entity (from any integration — MQTT, ratgdo, Aladdin Connect, etc.) with device_class: garage so it renders correctly in the UI.
Call the cover.open_cover / cover.close_cover services against the entity_id to command the door, respecting whichever CoverEntityFeature flags (OPEN/CLOSE/STOP) the integration declares.
Use cover.toggle for a single-button open/close automation, and cover.stop_cover only if the integration reports stop support (most garage integrations do not).
Read the entity's state (open, opening, closed, closing) directly, or template off it in automations/conditions.
Call these services over the REST API (POST /api/services/cover/open_cover with an entity_id in the body) for external, non-HA-native integrations.
Known gotchas
Not all garage cover integrations support "stop" or precise position — most only support open/close as discrete commands, unlike blind/shade covers.
device_class: garage is cosmetic/semantic for the frontend; it does not change which services or features the entity actually supports.
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