Home Assistant

I'm still not convinced that BLE (Bluetooth Low Energy) is better than ZigBee. ZigBee was contrived as a mesh and routable network for low powered devices; it should function better and be more resilient than BLE.

Best thing would be for the electrician to provide a photo of work done.

Looking at your diagram it's very basic setup, despite what others are saying it doesn't mean it was wired wrong though. As you'd imagine the sparks would know.

Perhaps look at the output from the circuit v what Shelly can handle / requires.

Some good info here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ShellyUSA/comments/1bjuke3/comment/kvucamc/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

Nah Im sick of Zigbee the theory is great but if one of your routers is turned off (missues pulls out your smart plug or even philips Hue light) then the whole network goes into termoil and drops devices. It goes into spasm trying to figure out the best route. I wouldnt mind so much if they drop off every now and then, as I only have temp stats and one or two motion detectors but its trying to get those f**kers to reconnect can be extreamly frustrating. I dont know how long I have stood over a aquara temp sensor pressing the pairing button 40 - 50 times taking out the battery going away and coming back the next day and one press it reconnects. I have three Aquara buttons that switch on a number of lights and turns off in the evenig and every few weeks it will drop…and then I get the Family moaning and groaning "This stupid switch isnt working etc etc"

I wont go mad into Bluetooth just yet but I already have a good few Shelly relays that can act as proxies so I just bought one of their buttons and a motion detector. If it works and stable I will get a one or two more buttons as these are the critical ones the the fam uses all the time and they have to work.

Im not worried about my Wifi network it can more than handle it…I have 5 Unifi access points and run a UDMP. I have just also ordered 4 wifi Tado smart plugs to replace my zigbee ones. That saying I wont get rid of the zigbee newtwork just reduce the critical devices if possible off it.

I have around 40 WiFi devices made up a mix of a few laptops and phones and then a rake of IOT devices on two AP's -32 are active at this time. No issues with bandwidth. So it can be done fine.

Those ZigBee smart plugs likely work as repeaters, so you will weaken your network removing plugged in devices

I have an ESP32 doorbell controller running esphome and have bluetooth proxy running on it.
Works brilliantly for BLE sensors. Is that the kind of thing you were thinking of?

Static all the way, no point in going for DHCP as it just adds to the confusion and network chatter after an outage.

If people need more static IP's than 256 (I know I do), just expand the subnet on a standard router from 255.255.255.0 to 255.255.254.0 and then you have from 192.168.0.1 to 192.168.1.256 (512 effectively).

am i right in thinking with the shelley plug plus, i can add that to my wifi (via the shelley app) then add to home assistant using the shelley integration, if i disable my usb bluetooth plugged into my ha server.. ha will use the shelley plug to connect to any other bluetooth devices?

I Haven't used Shellys as Bluetooth proxies myself but I have read that they only work for sensor type devices and not actuators like switch bots or blinds etc. Basically will only listen for Beacon type devices. (Entirely possible it has changed since with firmware updates).

On the other hand they are designed to be easily re-flashed with custom firmware like ESPHome.

Technically you never need to use the app with Shelly as they have their own webservers (but obviously you can too).

I have used OpenMQTTGateway with RuuviTags, all though it didn't have a high enough sample rate for the project I needed it would have been perfect for most HA applications.

Shelly plug arrived this morning - i connected it to wifi and enabled bluetooth gateway. It popped up in home assistant and i enabled bluetooth scanning there. I disabled the bluetooth usb dongle i have plugged into my home assistant server but I loose bluetooth connectivity then. I tried repairing some bluetooth devices but they arent found. Renabling the bluetooth dongle on the HA and they pair again. So it doesnt look like the shelly is working as a 'proxy'? from what ive seen you shouldnt need bluetooth on the HA server for the proxy to work? It should translate the bluetooth connection over wifi back to the HA server?

I dont have ESPhome configured on HA - i tried adding it as an integration using the IP of the plug as the ESP host name but that fails.

Thanks,

Mick

i probably dont need proxies at all.. but i have a bluetooth controlled extraction fan in the bathroom upstairs. It works via home assistant but sometimes i feel like the range might be an issue. i added that via the bluetooth dongle ive in the home assistant server. I disabled that via the bluetooth integration this morning and tried adding the fan again but it wasnt picked up by HA - i thought it would pick it up via the shelley plug. im not actually sure you can control devices via bluetooth proxy - i think initially at least it only supported reading sensors etc?

looks like control isnt possible at least via the shelley plug.. i wonder is it possible via esphome32 device/firmware?

https://community.home-assistant.io/t/home-assistant-bluetooth-proxy-setup/789735

Yes have set to passive and also tried active

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The whole point of the Shelly is you can use the existing switch.