📖 CCA Handbook › Blueprint section: Force Features
Emergency override controls for weather protection and special scenarios
Force functions allow you to immediately move covers to specific positions, overriding all other automation logic.
Use cases include: rain protection, wind protection, frost prevention, or temporary manual control.
📖 See: FAQ: How does a force function work?
All settings in this section are optional
On this page: 🔙 Return to Target State After Force Disable · ⏸️ Force Pause (Suspend Automatic Actions) · 🔼 Force Immediate Opening via Entity · 🔻 Force Immediate Closing via Entity · 💨 Force Immediate Ventilation via Entity · 🥵 Force Activation Sun Shading via Entity
🧩 Input:
auto_recover_after_force· Default:auto_recover_disabled
Seamless control with automatic recovery: When enabled, the cover automatically returns to its intended position when a force function is disabled.
Continuous Status Tracking:
Perfect for:
🧩 Input:
force_pause
If the status of this entity changes to on or true, all automatic cover movements are suspended immediately. This holds even for a movement that was already planned and is waiting out its drive delay when the pause arrives — the pause is re-checked at the moment the cover would actually move. The background state (target positions) is still tracked continuously in the helper — even while paused.
While paused, CCA also does not run your before/after actions (they announce a movement that cannot happen) and does not clear a manual override — both follow the actual drive decision, which the pause suspends.
When this entity turns off again, the cover immediately returns to its correct target position — no waiting for the next scheduled trigger.
💡 Tip: Use an input_boolean as a manual/automatic toggle. Unlike putting a switch in the global condition (which blocks helper state updates too), this force pause only blocks cover movement. The helper always reflects the correct background state, so resuming is instant and reliable.
⚠️ Not a way to run several CCA automations on one cover. The force pause keeps the automation running — it only stops it from moving the cover. A paused automation therefore still watches, and it cannot tell a different CCA automation’s movements apart from you grabbing the slider: it records them as a manual override and refuses to touch the cover once you un-pause it. For that setup use 🎚️ Only run this automation while this switch is on, which switches the automation off entirely and hands the cover over properly.
🧩 Input:
auto_up_force
If the status of this entity changes to on or true, the cover is opened immediately and without further checking.
🧩 Input:
auto_down_force
If the status of this entity changes to on or true, the cover is closed immediately and without further checking.
🧩 Input:
auto_ventilate_force
If the status of this entity changes to on or true, the cover is immediately set to ventilation mode and without further checking.
🧩 Input:
auto_shading_start_force
If the status of this entity changes to on or true, the shading is immediately activated and without further checking.
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