# Homey and awning position
**URL:** https://community.homey.app/t/homey-and-awning-position/33296
**Category:** Questions & Help
**Created:** [August 6, 2020, 7:33am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/homey-and-awning-position/33296 "2020-08-06T07:33:12Z")
**Posts on this page:** 16
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### Author:  [@JMH](https://community.homey.app/u/JMH)
#### Post date: [August 6, 2020, 7:33am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/homey-and-awning-position/33296/1 "2020-08-06T07:33:12Z")
Homey doesn’t seem to read the right position of my awning. I have a awning and a screen. I don’t want Homey to lower my screen when the awning is down. I have the right cards in my flow, but the screens keeps coming down 😭
Checking the position of my awning in Homey:
It says it is up.
Looking outside, or in Connexoon:
It tells me it is down…
What am I doing wrong? Is there an other way to keep the screen up?
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### Author:  [@Marcel\_Ubels](https://community.homey.app/u/Marcel_Ubels)
#### Post date: [August 6, 2020, 9:14am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/homey-and-awning-position/33296/2 "2020-08-06T09:14:17Z")
Probably you can reverse up and down with the settings off the app
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### Author:  [@JMH](https://community.homey.app/u/JMH)
#### Post date: [August 6, 2020, 9:41am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/homey-and-awning-position/33296/3 "2020-08-06T09:41:54Z")
Well, Homey says the awning is up when it’s up and Homey says up when it’s down…
So the position-settings of the awning won’t change in Homey, reverse won’t work than.
The position-settings of my screens do change, even when I use the Somfy-remote.
_Having a little bit of a laugh at work. I receive a pushmessage when the screen is closed by a flow. My wife is at home, and she is opening the screen with the remote when it was closed. Copple of minutes later I receive a message again that it wil close again 🤣 Seeing her being mad at Homey in my mind already_
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### Author:  [@E-J](https://community.homey.app/u/E-J)
#### Post date: [August 10, 2020, 11:39am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/homey-and-awning-position/33296/4 "2020-08-10T11:39:31Z")
I can confirm this:
In Homey/ Somfy Tahoma app open means closed and visa-versa
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### Author:  [@JMH](https://community.homey.app/u/JMH)
#### Post date: [August 10, 2020, 1:04pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/homey-and-awning-position/33296/5 "2020-08-10T13:04:01Z")
Thanks E-J, but that isn’t the problem.
The problem is that Homey always says that my awning is up, never down.
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### Author:  [@JPe4619](https://community.homey.app/u/JPe4619)
#### Post date: [August 10, 2020, 2:55pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/homey-and-awning-position/33296/6 "2020-08-10T14:55:03Z")
Some devices have a setting for changing/inverting the inputs and/or outputs.
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### Author:  [@JMH](https://community.homey.app/u/JMH)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2020, 11:58am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/homey-and-awning-position/33296/7 "2020-08-12T11:58:15Z")
That won’t change the status in Homey, that will still be “up”…
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### Author:  [@Marcel\_Ubels](https://community.homey.app/u/Marcel_Ubels)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2020, 8:01am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/homey-and-awning-position/33296/8 "2020-08-17T08:01:22Z")
How do you operate your screen? With remote and switches?
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### Author:  [@JMH](https://community.homey.app/u/JMH)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2020, 8:38am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/homey-and-awning-position/33296/9 "2020-08-17T08:38:56Z")
With remote and Somfy app (Connexoon).
Homey will close it with strong wind, rain or sunset.
The problem is that Homey can’t read the actuall position, found this problem also with my screens/roller shutters after using the remote. Searching and hoping for a workaround…
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### Author:  [@Marcel\_Ubels](https://community.homey.app/u/Marcel_Ubels)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2020, 10:12am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/homey-and-awning-position/33296/10 "2020-08-17T10:12:56Z")
At the moment you use the remote control Homey can’t know what postion is set because the remote control is not a part off Homey.
Can this be the problem? Or is it also when you control your screens with the Tahoma app the screen positioning doesn’t change
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### Author:  [@JMH](https://community.homey.app/u/JMH)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2020, 12:08pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/homey-and-awning-position/33296/11 "2020-08-17T12:08:25Z")
Didn’t try that yet…sounds logic…
Will give it a try when I’m at home and see what Homey does.
If this works right, then it would be great if the Somfy remote could start a flow in Homey 😃
_–\> Starts dreaming about the oppertunities \<–_
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### Author:  [@JPe4619](https://community.homey.app/u/JPe4619)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2020, 1:26pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/homey-and-awning-position/33296/12 "2020-08-17T13:26:26Z")
> [@JMH](#):
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> if the Somfy remote could start a flow
And that is unfortunately not possible 😢 But you can use a different remote like an Aqara pushbutton
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### Author:  [@Marcel\_Ubels](https://community.homey.app/u/Marcel_Ubels)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2020, 2:05pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/homey-and-awning-position/33296/13 "2020-08-17T14:05:06Z")
I use a remotec 8 button switch. Even wife and children get the point
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### Author:  [@JMH](https://community.homey.app/u/JMH)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2020, 10:57am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/homey-and-awning-position/33296/14 "2020-08-18T10:57:34Z")
> [@Marcel\_Ubels](#):
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> Even wife and children get the point
Yeah, that could be hard somtimes 🤣
Tried to change the screens and the awning with different methods.
- Using the remote doesn’t change the settings in Homey
- Using the Connexoon app does change the settings of the screens
- Using the Connexoon app does NOT chenge the settings of the awning
This makes it quite difficult to close the awning with wind or rain…becuase Homey doesn’t know if it’s opened or not…
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### Author:  [@JPe4619](https://community.homey.app/u/JPe4619)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2020, 11:20am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/homey-and-awning-position/33296/15 "2020-08-18T11:20:31Z")
> [@JMH](#):
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> becuase Homey doesn’t know
You can always send Close commands even when it is closed.
The advantage is that the status is synchronized that way.
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### Author:  [@Peter\_Kawa](https://community.homey.app/u/Peter_Kawa)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2021, 11:06pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/homey-and-awning-position/33296/16 "2021-04-27T23:06:56Z")
> [@JMH](#):
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> I receive a pushmessage when the screen is closed by a flow. My wife is at home, and she is opening the screen with the remote when it was closed
🤗🤪 looks like you have some finetuning to do. It should operate the way the wife likes without having to use ~~the wife~~ the remote:blush:🤗
(Sorry, couldn’t resist)