Get position while moving a cover about pyvlx HOT 4 CLOSED

Hmm, my velux windows report the position during movement ...

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After moving from a Somfy Connexoon box to the KLF-200 I have noticed this as well for all my Velux SSL Shutters and Somfy Motors as I'm using the current position / state in various automations within HomeAssistant and they simply won't work any longer due to this. As the reporter mentioned, as soon as the motor is stopped, the current position in HA gets updated immediately.

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@Julius2342 First of all, thanks for your feedback! I'm not a coder, but I tried to read the code and I thought, in terms of position aquisition, windows and covers are handled in the same way. Would it be possible to force a higher (maybe configurable) position update rate for covers? I mean if you press the stop button also the current position can be gathered immediately.

I tried to find an "easy" solution in the code, but I could not find it.

@redneckdba Thank you for the confirmation, so it seems it is not a specific behaviour of my setup and there are use cases for which a more frequently updated position is needed.

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Using just a .py without HomeAssistant, I can confirm the following gets the Awning and RollerShutter names nicely (incl. spaces and diacritics), performs set_position to percentages as well as open or close, but in either case comes up empty for serial_number and position on all 7 of our Somfy motors/actuators:

    await pyvlx.load_nodes()
    print(*pyvlx.nodes)
<... node_id="0" serial_number="None" position="UNKNOWN"/>

Is there a method to populate/query these, position in particular?

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