Shelly Blu Button1

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Hello,

I bought and received a Shelly Blu Button1, which was recently released and wanted to use it for presence detection. As far as I can tell based on the limited info available that should be possible. Getting it added into my Home Assistant (2023.5.4) setup was easy, popping in the battery and it was discovered. Automations based on button presses work!

Is it possible to add it to a “person” and have that decide whether that person is home (alongside other trackers)? It is not listed in the available devices to be tracked on the person configuration.

The Shelly documentation says it can be configured into beacon mode, just not where that can be configured.

Thank you for your time!

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For activate the beacon mode you have to use the App „Shelly BLE Debug“

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Thank you for your reply. I installed that app and there was a firmware update available for the device which I also installed.

Unfortunately the “Beacon on” button is not active and cannot be touched/clicked.

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Restart the app and re-establish the connection.

It’s probably a bug in the app?

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You have to pair the device to the app before you press the beacon on button.

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@ngid does the presence detection with BLU work for you ?

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Unfortunately not. The Beacon button on the app cannot be tapped/clicked.

I originally bought 2, one was used to experiment with and the other still in the box unopened. Today I opened the second one just to verify the first one wasn’t faulty and it seems it is. After setting up the second one and updating it’s firmware I can toggle the sound, which I haven’t been able to on the first one. The Beacon button is still not active.

I tried resetting the first Shelly Blu and updating again but it will not, after pairing the app says the device has to be updated but right after that it shuts down and will not respond to button presses anymore.

So far i’m not impressed with this product, it was my first journey into the Shelly ecosystem and it has been a let down. Not to mention I had to replace the battery already. Last week it died, it lasted a whole 3 weeks. :roll_eyes:

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Get in touch with the customer support from Shelly. They normally are nice and try to find a solution that works for both sides. :slight_smile:

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I’m interested because I thinking about buy 2 to link to my “person” in HA and for some experiements like the alarm start when me neither my wife are in the house and stop when my wife or me are inside of the house, or lights on near me while I’m walking in the house.

Thanks

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So I have 2x BLU since almost since release.
New products from Shelly are very similar to beta devices.

In the latest version of the Shelly Smart Control App, the BLU can be configured to set “beacon” etc.

In HA I use one BLU with the:

bluetooth:
device_tracker:
  - platform: bluetooth_le_tracker

Unfortunately it is often declared absent for a short time

With the newest FW v1.0.8 and activating the beacon mode it unfortunately happens that it often sends the long push button. Very unpleasant. Therefore my test is stopped for now.

@naudor
HA can make your wishes but with the phones in the account directly, in any case with Apple phones