Adding Shelly H&T via MQTT

Third party integrations
1

So I’m trying to add some Shelly H&T via MQTT and it’s sort of working. Below is my section from configuration.yaml. I have one sensor and the only thing that shows as an entity is ShellyHT-temperature and then it’s showing up like a battery with the numbers being in %. Not sure what is wrong. I’m not an expert on HA. Just started with having to edit config files. Any help or pointer would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

mqtt:
  sensor:
     name: "ShellyHT-temperature"
     unique_id: "shellyht-78F843"
     unit_of_measurement: '°F'
     expire_after: 86400
     device_class: temperature
     icon: mdi:home-thermometer-outline
     qos: 1
     state_topic: "shellies/shellyht-78F843/sensor/temperature"
     json_attributes_topic: "shellies/shellyht-78F843/announce"
  sensor:
     name: "ShellyHT-humidity"
     unique_id: "shellyht-78F843"
     unit_of_measurement: '%'
     expire_after: 86400
     device_class: humidity
     icon: mdi:water-percent
     qos: 1
     state_topic: "shellies/shellyht-78F843/sensor/humidity"
  sensor:
     name: "ShellyHT-battery"
     unique_id: "shellyht-78F843"
     unit_of_measurement: '%'
     expire_after: 86400
     device_class: battery
     icon: mdi:battery
     qos: 1
     state_topic: "shellies/shellyht-78F843/sensor/battery"
2

Your YAML seems incorrect, here’s mine for reference:

mqtt:
    sensor:
      - name: Theater Room Temp
        state_topic: "shellies/shellyht-E01531/sensor/temperature"
        device_class: temperature
        unit_of_measurement: "°F"
      - name: Theater Room Humidity 
        state_topic: "shellies/shellyht-E01531/sensor/humidity"
        device_class: humidity
        unit_of_measurement: "%"
      - name: Theater Room H&T Battery
        state_topic: "shellies/shellyht-E01531/sensor/battery"
        device_class: battery
3

That did it. Thanks!

4

On yours how often do you see temperature/humidity updates? I see hours go by without anything being reported. Thanks in advance.

5

Ah - I just found this on mine:
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You can’t go below a 0.5 degrees C delta, but the RH can be set to a delta of 1% RH. So set that and see if you get better behaviour in HA.

Oddly enough I’ve just updated to beta firmware 0.13.0-beta1 - it offered it to me for some reason and now it’s offering me 0.12.0 again.

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So some oddness going on there too. I don’t see many changes anyway in 0.13.0.

6

Thanks for the screenshots. I’ll take a look at that.

7

What do you see for battery percentage? Mine are constantly saying 100% which is great if really uses that little but wanted to verify what other people are seeing. Also sometimes the batteries randomly say unavailable. Is anyone seeing the same? Thanks

8

My yaml entry did not work until I changed it to:-

mqtt:
  sensor:
    - unique_id: ensuite_temp
      name: Ensuite Temperature
      state_topic: "shellies/shellyht-6A5761/sensor/temperature"
      device_class: temperature
      unit_of_measurement: "°C"

    - unique_id: ensuite_humid
      name: Ensuite Humidity 
      state_topic: "shellies/shellyht-6A5761/sensor/humidity"
      device_class: humidity
      unit_of_measurement: "%"

    - unique_id: ensuite_batt
      name: Ensuite H&T Battery
      state_topic: "shellies/shellyht-6A5761/sensor/battery"
      device_class: battery
9

Hi all! im new to home assistant and im tring to configure a shelly h&t. But the only thing im able to do is find it as a device:

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