I love the way how the official Shelly integration works nowadays. The only thing I am missing is the IP address of the device. Would it be possible to add it as a (default disabled) entity? Preferably turn it into a ‘direct link’ so it is possible to click the link and set specific local settings on the device itself. If the developer prefers to keep the amount of entities for the device limited it would also be possible to add the IP address as an attribute to the RSSI entity considering they are related…
You can add custom attributes to your entities using customize.
In that case I guess I would have to add the IP address to every device manually? I have about 300 of them and their IP address can change every once in a while… 
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Yes, this is very much needed. Adding the IP by hand is not an option
I’m using Shelly discover scripts (maybe you already know about), different from official integration.
for example: it has all these infos for a roller shutter (ip address too):
This is the git repository: GitHub - bieniu/ha-shellies-discovery: Script that adds MQTT discovery support for Shellies devices
I did a small lovelace card with the link for opening the shellies web interface and managed them
this is the code:
type: 'custom:config-template-card'
variables:
IP: 'states[''sensor.shelly_2_5_68c63afaad44_ip''].state'
entities:
- sensor.shelly_2_5_68c63afaad44_ip
- binary_sensor.shelly_2_5_68c63afaad44_firmware_update
card:
type: entities
entities:
- entity: sensor.shelly_2_5_68c63afaad44_ip
type: 'custom:multiple-entity-row'
name: Tapparella Destra
show_state: false
icon: 'mdi:open-in-new'
entities:
- entity: sensor.shelly_2_5_68c63afaad44_uptime
name: uptime
- entity: binary_sensor.shelly_2_5_68c63afaad44_firmware_update
name: Fw
- entity: binary_sensor.shelly_2_5_68c63afaad44_firmware_update
name: false
icon: 'mdi:open-in-new'
tap_action:
action: url
url_path: '${"http://" + IP}'
That looks very useful. Would it work side by side with the official integration? I really like the simplicity of the official integration and I would like to stick with that.
I suppose you can have both, but it would be a double…
Shelly discovers is pretty simple, if you already have a MQTT server and discovery enabled.
You install it from HACS and as soon you reboot your Home Assistant you start having discovered new devices
Since HA 2021.11 we have the “Visit Device” function for each device. I guess we can consider this feature request granted!!! 
Can we? Sure it’s there as a link to the device’s own UI, but how do I call the IP address as an attribute in a template?
For me the purpose of the attribute was to be able to ‘visit’ the actual device. So for me it is solved. But indeed we still do not have the IP address as an attribute. You may want to file a feature request if you need it for other uses…
Having the IP address for the Shellys might be very useful to use “call-service” to send a “rest_command” on a Shelly since, for example, the integration still doesn’t provide to open a shade with “duration” like below:
url: "http://{{ ip_address }}/roller/0?go={{ open_or_close }}&duration={{ duration_seconds }}"
Though I successfully managed to use the following command only in the HA developper tools template, but unfortunately not in any other card:
{% set ip_address = device_attr('cover.cover_bedroom', 'configuration_url').split("//")[1] %}
{{ ip_address }}
I was neither able to use it with the custom:button-card, which is amazing, like below:
variables:
ip_address: "[[[ return device_attr('cover.cover_bedroom', 'configuration_url').split('//')[1] ]]]"
Any ideas?
Of course it might also be very good to have available on Shelly rollers “duration” and “last_direction”. This would be very useful to be able to orient the shades using different timings depending on the roller last_direction, either with a button or automatically.
Thanks!
Just wanted to share the good solution I found.
It requires you to use dhcp on your router to give shellies a fixed IP address.
In configuration.yaml:
homeassistant:
customize:
light.light_kitchen_sink:
ip: "192.168.0.101"
light.light_kitchen_bar:
ip: "192.168.0.102"
Then you can use your normal entity, and refer to the attribute “ip”.
For example in a rest service like this:
rest_command:
#Sets brightness preset without turning the light on
shelly_dimmer_preset_brightness:
url: "http://{{ state_attr(entity_id, 'ip') }}/light/0?brightness={{ brightness | default(50) }}"
Which you can call by:
- service: rest_command.shelly_dimmer_preset_brightness
data:
entity_id: light.light_kitchen_bar
brightness: 80
@zynth This is very interesting, I ended up doing something very similar, but I had to create specific sensors, which I call “extended”, to add specific attributes for the “current position” and the “last direction”, to be able to “orient/tilt” the shades… The following is my code in case you might want to use it or you think of a better soultion to integrate these changing variable attributes inside the main entity (Shelly 2.5PM):
Inside sensors.yaml file:
- platform: rest
name: "Persiana 1 Era extended"
resource: http://192.168.131.181/status
method: GET
scan_interval: 2
json_attributes_path: "$.rollers[0]"
value_template: "{{ value_json.wifi_sta.ip }}"
json_attributes:
- "state"
- "current_pos"
- "last_direction"
And then, similarly as you pointed out inside rest.yaml:
persiana_tilt_open_close:
url: "http://{{ ip_address }}/roller/0?go={{ tilt_open_close }}&duration={{ duration }}"
method: put
This is a screen capture of the state:
Please, let me know if you think of a better solution, i.e. to integrate these attributes inside the main Shelly entity.
Thank you very much!