I’ve written a number of articles about the smart products that Shelly makes and how they can be used in a smart home. For those that aren’t familiar with Shelly, they manufacture a wide range of IoT devices that can solve a wide range of problems in a smart home.
Shelly smart home products are manufactured by Shelly Group, a provider of IoT and smart building solutions based in Sofia, Bulgaria. Shelly Group introduced its Shelly line of smart home IoT products in 2018.
Shelly offers a variety of smart relays for turning devices on/off. The relays include the ability to sense a contact closure input and optionally operate the relay based on it. Some of their relays also include power monitoring.
Shelly also sells modules for dimming lights and controlling RGBW light strips; smart power monitors; smart light bulbs; and smart sensors for motion, temperature, humidity, water (flood), door/window open/close, natural gas, and LP gas.
Shelly products come in a variety of form factors including models specifically designed for the professional integrator market that are DIN rail mountable and others that are smaller than an Oreo cookie and designed to sit in an electrical box behind a light fixture or wall switch.
On March 5, Shelly hosted a live stream on Facebook and YouTube, where the company announced a series of new products and integrations.
Shelly BLU Button Tough1
The Shelly BLU Button Tough1 is new Bluetooth button designed to withstand rough handling, dust, and water, making it ideal for harsh environments. It supports multi-click actions and integrates with other Shelly devices, Home Assistant, and any other device that supports the BTHome protocol. It can be used to turn appliances on/off, dim lights, and trigger scenes.
Shelly BLU Button Tough1 has a range of 10m indoors and 30m outdoors and, like other Shelly BLU devices, scripting on a Shelly device acting as a gateway can be used to customize its functionality. Shelly BLU Button Tough1 includes a “find me” function and offers sound alerts and “hush” mode for no sounds.
Shelly Blu H&T
Shelly Blu H&T is a new Bluetooth humidity and temperature sensor that can be used indoors or outdoors. It is fully waterproof and dust proof and detects and reports temperature and humidity every minute. Its single 3V CR2032 battery can last up to three years.
Like other Shelly BLU devices, scripting on a Shelly device acting as a gateway can be used to customize its functionality. It is designed to integrate with other Shelly devices, Home Assistant, and any other device that supports the BTHome protocol. Shelly Blu H&T can also share data with other systems through the use of webhooks and the MQTT protocol. It also can be leveraged to trigger smart home automations and scenes.
Shelly LAN Switch
Shelly’s PRO series line of products are DIN rail mountable devices that can avoid the issues of Wi-Fi interference from high voltage wiring by being connected to an Ethernet network with standard category network cables (Cat-5, Cat-6, etc.) The Shelly LAN Switch provides a convenient DIN rail mountable solution for connecting multiple Shelly PRO devices to the home/business network. It includes five 10/100 mbps, RJ-45 ports.
KNX Integration
Shelly has announced the integration of Shelly PRO series and Gen 3 lines of products with KNX through a firmware update that will be available in April. KNX is a global standard for building and home control that has been used for more than 25 years. It is an open protocol standard that allows communication between various devices and systems used in buildings.
This integration leverages the KNX over IP protocol and features full bi-directional feedback and control between a KNX controller and Shelly devices. Changes made to Shelly devices by a KNX controller will be immediately reflected by the Shelly device and its software interface. Similarly, if changes are made to the Shelly device through its software interface, http/https API, etc. those changes will immediately be reflected on the KNX controller.
Shelly Qubino Mini Z-Wave Relays/Power Monitors
At CES 2024, Shelly announced the Mini line of Shelly Gen3 relays that have all the same capabilities of other Shelly devices but in a space saving format that makes it easier to install them in tight spaces where larger devices won’t fit. The Mini line is 35% smaller than equivalent Shelly Plus devices. This allows the new Mini line of Shelly Gen3 relays to fit in very small spaces.
The Shelly Mini line includes:
- Shelly 1PM Mini Gen3 – Control and measure the power consumption of appliances up to eight amps
- Shelly PM Mini Gen3 – Measures the power consumptions of connected appliances
- Shelly 1 Gen3 – Controls appliances up to eight amps with its internal relay
- Shelly has now announced Z-Wave versions of these devices; the Shelly Qubino Wave 1PM Mini, the Shelly Qubino Wave PM Mini, and the Shelly Qubino Wave 1 Mini.
These devices are 35% smaller compared with Shelly’s original Z-Wave products for simpler installation inside electrical boxes; include the latest Z-Wave 800 Series technology; support for automatic set-up with SmartStart; support for over-the-air firmware updates; and works with Z-Wave certified hubs and over 4,000 existing Z-Wave devices.
