[XTension] Can Shelly devices work with Xtension?

[Steve Blethen]

HI Bob,

What unit(s) did you get?  Shelly has some pretty detailed documentation for their API.  They are just a little short on examples useful for AppleScript.  I found a document after hours of searching that gave the epiphany I needed.  I could probably whip out a couple of On and off scripts for you.  I’m sure that would make me the “handsomest”!

-Steve


> On Dec 8, 2023, at 11:27 AM, Vbob via XtensionList <xtensionlist at machomeautomation.com> wrote:
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> Hear hear!  I’m eager to play with mine via Xtension, but life got complicated for a few weeks and I haven’t tried much yet except proving that I can get a sample to connect via Wifi and switch using device provided webpage.
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> I follow the user group on Facebook - NOT the friendliest bunch of ‘Friends' - and it just reminds me again what a wonderful nice helpful friendly competent group we have here - and I’m sure we’re all handsome and/or beautiful, too!
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>> On Dec 8, 2023, at 8:35 AM, Steve Blethen via XtensionList <xtensionlist at machomeautomation.com> wrote:
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>> Hi All,
>> 
>> I ordered a couple of these units.  One was backordered and the other arrived after a few days.  The one I got (Dimmer 2) installed with no pain.  The API can be a little cryptic but I managed to get things working using cUrl.
>> 
>> I plan on getting more.
>> 
>> James?  Any interest in brewing up an interface for these?  You know how I like my IP addressable gadgets.  Presently every switch in my new house is just a simple toggle.  They’re cheap and they are just acting as placeholders until I can figure out what direction to go with automation.
>> 
>> My confidence level in Z-Wave has dropped precipitously since the death of Vera.  I really can’t see WiFi disappearing any time soon.
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>> 
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>>> On Nov 28, 2023, at 3:51 AM, Vbob via XtensionList <xtensionlist at machomeautomation.com> wrote:
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>>> Perfect timing, James! Amazon dropped off my package of Shelly 1PM units moments after your message…..
>>> 
>>> It does seem it should be ‘easy enough’ to bump the relays - using the Power Monitor feature I expect to be trickier, but mostly because I’m very rusty at all this stuff myself.
>>> 
>>> I’ll let y’all know what I find out [….or need help with….] as soon as the cats give me a chance to wire up a testbed.
>>> 
>>> Vbob
>>> 
>>>> On Nov 27, 2023, at 5:17 PM, james--- via XtensionList <xtensionlist at machomeautomation.com> wrote:
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>>>> It looks like they have a lot of different connection methods, but if you just need to control things like the relay or get data from the sensors it APPEARS as if you could do it by making fairly simple HTTP requests via the load url command in XTension. I’m not sure about parsing out the responses from a sensor, but controlling the relays should work just fine. They have a document for some of the devices here that shows the simple commands that you could use. It would be easy to make pseudo units with the requests to the devices in the on and off scripts and then it would just work like everything else.
>>>> 
>>>> https://www.shelly.com/documents/developers/ddd_communication.pdf
>>>> 
>>>> For sensors you may have to resort to their MQTT implementation which SHOULD be able to work with the XTension MQTT plugin. You can read more about that on the wiki but I dont see examples of their output so I can’t say for sure without finding some actual data that they post to it. 
>>>> 
>>>>> On Nov 22, 2023, at 12:57 PM, Vbob via XtensionList <xtensionlist at machomeautomation.com> wrote:
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>>>>> Being tempted by Black Friday deals on Shelly relays and sensors - has anybody integrated them with an Xtension setup?
>>>>> 
>>>>> https://www.shelly.com/en-us/products/shop#unfiltered
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>>>> Thanks,
>>>> James
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>>>> James Sentman                       http://www.PlanetaryGear.org		http://MacHomeAutomation.com
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