Immediate thumbs up for explaining why companies that care about the user experience matter

I generally follow the rule "Buy nice or buy twice" and home smart electronics definitely fit the bill. I also like supporting the companies that care about the tinkerer at heart.

I have rarely seen a better summarization of the state of smart home and it's surrounding actors that do the heavy lifting on the backend, awesome video!

You're right on, as always. I've fallen for "lowest price" trap a few times - with mixed success. And then I come across a Shelly or Aqara device and realize how good the experience can/should be. Thanks for the continued excellent content, even if delivered way past your bedtime!

Shelly rocks. Their PRO line is amazing. And I have 18 shelly 2.5 all over my house - some original firmware, some tasmotized. Perfect products, thanks!

Well said! Price will always be a factor of course, but I put a lot of time and effort into understanding how products work and will integrate before I buy, and I'm happy to spend extra (within reason) to get what I want, not simply what some manufacturer thinks is best for them

Haven't really dealt with their customer service end but, I've been purchasing ThirdReality products because they are relatively cheap and they use standard AAA's instead of the coin cells most use. I've been really happy with both performance and battery life of all their products including the motion sensor, the contact senor, the button and their Zigbee/BLE wall plugs. All have worked flawlessly in my HA install.

I've got quite a few Shelly 1L, flashed with ESPHome they're great little devices. I also got one of their TRV, kind of wish it had Zigbee as it tends to drop from the network a bit where it is but I guess that's not their fault. I also installed a Shelly EM at the in-laws and they love it, it works really well. I like the brand a lot, they do make great stuff!

I'm still so happy with myself for buying sonoff products back when I didn't know about home assistant. Used the ewelink app for like 3 years and flashed everything over to esphome after that. I'm so glad I accidentally made the right decision lol

Great video, hopefully companies like Shelly can prove that flexibility is just another avenue for revenue but also providing a happy customer base that results in repeat business!

Thanks for taking the time to share this!

WHOA FINALLY! YES! I wrote my own software to make Flic buttons do double-long-press, triple-press, and triple-long-press. They refused to add the other press types no matter how much I asked. It's not like people have to use them; and it's janky when it's not programmed in the button because of Bluetooth latency. I can't believe there's a button that does it! Sadly, it doesn't look nice like Flic buttons and doesn't easily attack to the wall :(.

I knew shelly isn't cheapest when I was choosing relays for my switches in my home. I do not regret getting proper devices that work well and has amazing functionality.

2:30 made me cry a little.

Nice little reminder, thanks! "The bitterness of poor quality remains long after the sweetness of low price is forgotten."

Fully agree with your sentiment, I have always found Shelly products to be reliable and reasonably priced and, along with Aqara, are my favorite maker of home automation devices. These Shelly Blu devices look usefull so I've ordered a couple. Thx for the video.

espsence on a bluetooth button? that means i could use one button that is always on me to do different things depending on what room i‘m in 🤔 has anybody tried this? how well does it work?

Thanks for sharing this good video. Collecting the user data without making clearly visibe that this happens and what is collected, how long it will kept etc is a serious crime in my opinion and should be forbidden immediately. I mean a company who produces gas boilers can't also just produce something and sell it, there are serious rules that the company should obey with.And the governments needs to regulate the whole technological industry asap!

Thanks. I just bought a set of 4.

Just put in KNX if you remodel or have a new build. KNX is a proper building automation standard. That is what I have in my house. Saves you a ton of headache.

Would love to see a video that celebrates some of the companies that embrace the open source and home tinkerer ethos as of right now. Community suggestions involved, perhaps?

Why choosing KZfaq video titles carefully matters: because the current one is really unwieldy (IMHO). I would suggest: - Careful choice of smarthome devices (really) matters(!) [bracket content optional] - It matters: Why and how to carefully choose your smarthome devices - Choose carefully: smarthome devices, how and why - Smarthome devices: mindful selection matters (ending there, or with "!", or with ", here's why") ...or something along those lines.

Totally agree, I just wish Shelly would use Zigbee rather than WiFi in their products

This is good advice. I generally put price high on my list when selecting a product, but it is not the most important. I love inovelli switches, I have about 10 of them.. unfortunately, I need another 15 to complete my house.. and for the last year,stock has been non existent.. so now when I pick devices, I now have to include availability over the long term… it’s sad, but I’ll probably replace my inovelli switches since having different types of switches that function differently drives my wife nuts.

Kauf is a great lightbulb

Love your videos.I try and always go esphome and build my own sensors.. other than that. Zigbee trusted devices and shelly... Companies that care about local offline control

I just received my Shelly Blu. It was immediately recognized by HA. I'm aware it works through BThome events (not entities). Could you elaborate on how to use a single click to trigger an automation with a bit of yaml code.

This !!! So very important to support those that support the community l. Take my engagement.

Nice video. You got me thinking, is is possible to get information of raw position of this Shelly blue button when pressed and activate different automatizations based on it? For example have this one small button always switch light of room it is in?

I’d stick with Ikea’s wireless zigbee remotes instead. it’s more family approved/friendly.

Amen!

I approve of this message 😊❤

Can double tripple etc. Clicks ve disabled? In button1 it can't And i would like no dalay on single press. Which Is surprisingly hard to to find because od the Wait for double click etc.

Okay put me in the slow group but how do you physically perform a multi-click long press like triple long press. Do you do two clicks and then hold the third. I have not been able to get that to fire.

gotta do something between those nighttime feeds when you can't get to sleep, eh?

I will pay the little extra for products from a company that allows, if not actively supports, reflashing the firmware on their products. If nothing else, this means that should the company go under, taking their server with it, I'm not stuck with useless hardware. Besides, what company can afford the software R&D that can equal the value of the hobbyist market?

My ZigBee gateway just died, what new one should i replace it with and why? Thanks! I had ZigBee lights, motion sensor, IP cameras etc. I'd like to integrate everything if possibly, and i have a spare f RPi, if i can find it!

I wish the button would connect to any shelly device using BT instead of homeassitant. my HA runs on a VM, so no BT :(

I love shelly kit. Great quality.

@Everything Smart Home, or someone else: I'm needing your help as my guru in smart home life. I want to control my lights with zigbee. I have Niko 2-way switches that with each press send 24v to a teleruptor There is a 24v input that gets passed thru. 1 press on, 1 press off. It's sends the 24v thru. I can't find anything... ANYTHING that works on 24v, can pass it thru and retain my switches. please help.

i've tried several ways to detect when i'm home and when i'm not, but none of them worked the way i want. can this bluetooth thing help with that? if so, what do i need?

I cant seem to get this setup properly with ESPhome presense detection. I'm hoping to get a 'distance' sensor (like in the video @1:18) from all my EPS32 nodes in the house to the shelly Blu. I got the service uuid from the logger from esphome as '0x0006'. And configured the ESPhome sensor: # RSSI based on service uuid - platform: ble_rssi service_uuid: '0006' name: "keys ${node_name} rssi" but it doesn't work (always shows as unknow). Anyone could give me a hint as to how to fix this?

Hi Lewis I've now got a couple of these Shelly blutooth buttons and the BTHome integration sees them but the only three entities I see are battery, packet id and signal strength I get no sensor where I can detect actions like a button press. I have updated the device firmware using the Shelly BLE Control app. How do I see an event that will allow me to use them is automations?

A good one, Lewis!

i am a bit worry about Shelly, i still have a couple old device from them to implement, but the recent one seam to have removed the GPIO port to flash them ? i was wondering if they where drifting to the dark side, and now i'm even more lost

Good vídeo, you touch on important points. What is the website on 5:25?

Shelly... they lost me when after enthusiastic reviews of their products I bought, among other of their stuff, 32 Shelly Duo RGBW GU10 color light bulbs on some Black Friday or similar deal about 1.5 years ago. I didn't care about RGB, but they had a better price than the white spectrum-only ones. The web offer at that time mentioned 2700K-6500K white range, but on the box (and in the app) they had 3000K-6500K. In reality, perceptually, it may be in the range of 4000K-6500K (warmer white is barely noticeable). As we prefer warm light at evenings it was hardly acceptable, still I installed over twenty of them to see if we get used to it (besides, as we bought old house, already installed light bulbs were even worse). Btw I just checked their website, and now it states RGB + 4000K white, but they still can't get their other numbers right - in the description, they mention it's a 5W light bulb, but in the specification, it becomes RGB 9W, "natural white" 9W with 800 lm (?!) (mine say 400lm, 5W on the box). Moreover at that time I used them with regular switches, and they randomly lost configuration and needed to be set up again (often going to blue light mode to additionally irritate my other half), and it was not range issue, as I'm also talking about ones 2-4m from the access point (neither wifi device saturation as I had

Will these work with an esphome BLE proxy?

just installed shelly blu and BTHome sees it but onlty three entities I see are battery, packet id ,signal strength I get no sensor where I can detect actions like press. What am I missing

the only foolproof method of in-house presence tracking will be BLE implants so you don't forget gadgets like these, or your phone, etc.

How is Matter making cutting corners and similar things worse?

Nice video

Great Review

Doesn’t look like they ship to the USA 😞

Are you able to trigger the same HA automation with the BLU button repeatedly in a rapid succession? I have to wait for ~10 seconds.

grand stuff!

Shelly employees definitely use home assistant

Can I get a screen share of the date night video? It means a butt ton to me.

This is the thing smart plugs only couple years old and dont work or manufacturers bringing out newer model and dont care about old models. I hate waste and wasting money.

Does Shelly ship to the US?

What the heck are you doing past 03:00?

Homematic IP

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Wonder why this video never whowed up in ny feed...

Yeah i'm buying more Shelly gear these days, nothing better than a company that listens to community.

My one stopped working after a couple of days. Not impressed.

What time is it now? 😏

What was the topic of the video?

Sleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep

I wouldnt buy either one.