Shelly i3 as a cheap scene controller for Openluup
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There was this, of course...
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I've been enjoying building smart things for a while now, maybe it's time to share the ones I find useful with others. I like to make thing…
...but it doesn’t seem to be available.
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@akbooer I agree it would have been better if it supported 12V such as the Uni does.
I assume it should be possible to run the i3 on a small 12/24V DC/DC converter, e.g. something like this TRK-1-1215 depending on space available and taking the temperature/ventilation into consideration.//ArcherS
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I gave up Vera 5 month ago to Hubitat and I Have discovered Shelly. Fast and easy. I sold all my fibaro dimmers and switches... The only device that doesn't have a Hubitat driver now is Uni.. so smart implant still runs... But they work good. The Shellys is almost for free compared to zwave products.....
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@therealdb Where did you put the shelly i3 ? And which switches are you using ?
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It’s in the box and I’m using standard switches. In Europe (mostly France and Italy) we have a different style for flush-mounted boxes (called 503 box, 504, 506 depending on how many switches you could fit), so it’s very easy to do.
It’s basically a system that could be combined and where items could be added.
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It’s in the box and I’m using standard switches. In Europe (mostly France and Italy) we have a different style for flush-mounted boxes (called 503 box, 504, 506 depending on how many switches you could fit), so it’s very easy to do.
It’s basically a system that could be combined and where items could be added.
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Have the i3 flashed with esphome... works like a charm!
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So these Shelley modules, we can use them with HA-bridge I assume? They look great, if so!
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Well that makes things a lot cheaper all of a sudden!
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therealdbreplied to CatmanV2 on Dec 28, 2020, 12:09 PM last edited by therealdb Dec 28, 2020, 7:10 AM
@catmanv2 said in Shelly i3 as a cheap scene controller for Openluup:
Well that makes things a lot cheaper all of a sudden!
Yep. While I'm a fan of Shelly, I have not deployed so many of them, because it'll cost you time to manage them.
I'll probably add them to the new office we're building, but offices are less complex than houses, because you'll simply turn lights on/off based on presence and time, and automations are simple.
While I have a lot of friends going the WiFi route, I'm sure they'll find problems when they'll reach my size (100+ devices).
Things are better on home assistant, with autodiscovery, auto fw update, and so on, but it's too many moving parts for me.
I'm OK with a couple of them in strategic places, where Zwave mesh sucks or when a Zwave equivalent is not available (or for very low budgets situation, where I want to add automation but be on a budget).
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Anyone use them in the "US" ?
I mean, using "US" switches...
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@akbooer said in Shelly i3 as a cheap scene controller for Openluup:
I just so much wish that they produced a four button handheld controller.
…and now, they do (well, not quite, it’s not handheld, but mains powered)…The (relatively) new Shelly Plus i4.
Just received and installed one… the latest (beta) firmware is vastly different from the old i3s, but I configured it in the end. However, the MQTT function doesn’t broadcast to the generic Shellies/ topic, so isn’t recognised by openLuup at this time.
Anyone else have experience of these devices? I missed the old Zwave Fibaro 4-channel input device, but this seems like an excellent replacement.
