Re:My smart home 2021: A Home Assistant love story
by buro9 on Thursday February 17, 2022 @01:46PM
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There's room for a future product to discover everything within a house. Find all the Shelly devices, figure out which bulbs are Hue, discover any small sensors left behind, etc.
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Re:My smart home 2021: A Home Assistant love story
by egeek on Thursday February 17, 2022 @02:10PM
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It'll be easy to find the Shellys. Just look for light switches that don't cause the light to turn on or off, or lights that turn on randomly. We put a Shelly 2 on every light switch in our new build 2 years ago (about 30 Shellys) and over 50% of them have already failed.
Usually its either the relay refusing to switch on or off. Or its able to switch on and off via the app, but not via a light switch that it was happily doing the day before. Or it disappears off the WiFi and refuses to connect no matter how many resets / power cycles are done.
After replacing 10 or so of them, I decided it was easier to rip them all out.