Hi, I just got my Shelly Dimmers installed and I want to integrate them with HA using MQTT. I can’t for the life of me figure out how to change the brightness via mqtt. I’ve managed to turn it on and off but that’s it. It is the template things that I don’t quite understand. This is the config …

There you go: platform: mqtt schema: template name: Shelly Dimmer state_topic: "shellies/shellydimmer-XXXXXX/light/0/status" state_template: '{% if value_json.ison %} on {% else %} off {% endif %}' command_topic: "shellies/shellydimmer-XXXXXX/light/0/set" command_on_template: '{"turn":…

You can try this : [image] Shellies Discovery Script Scripts This script adds MQTT discovery support for Shelly devices and without configuration it adds entities to Home Assistant. [Buy Me A Coffee] This is screenshots with Home Assistant Integrations page: …

Thank you very much! It works perfecly :smiley:

https://shelly-api-docs.shelly.cloud/#dimmer-sl-overview

If I may ask, why are you using MQTT? The normal Shellys work well with ESPHome and are easily added. Is this different for the dimmers or do you have other reasons?

I’ve never used ESPHome. I like to do everything the “hard way” so I have more control and understanding of what is going on. I use MQTT for all my devices.

Hello! I am trying to use the switch entity template above, but my HA keeps telling me: Invalid config for [switch.mqtt]: [schema] is an invalid option for [switch.mqtt]. Check: switch.mqtt->schema. (See ?, line ?). Please check the docs at https://home-assistant.io/integrations/mqtt/ And if i com…

Ah ok, that makes sense (in some way :smiley: :smiley: :smiley: ). I’d really suggest you take a closer look to ESPHome, especially together with Shellys. In ESPHome you configure your firmware for the Shelly and flash it afterwards. It is simple and you can control everything, as you are the “make…

Hi @ioprev , I am using your configuration for my Shelly dimmers, however I’m fairly new to mqtt and HA (so please be gentle here :slight_smile:) The dimmer works well with one exception. When changing the brightness of the dimmer using a momentary button, the dimmer does not send a payload messag…

Hi Alister, Sorry I don’t have a button on my Shelly Dimmer so at this time I didn’t had the chance to test what happens :slight_smile: With this configuration, whenever we get a brightness value published in state topic, we update the value on HA respectively. Looking into their documentation fo…

Thanks for your quick response. I did have a look at all the communication on Mqtt from the device, however no brightness values seem to be communicated (other than during keep alive status messages every 30 secs). I will contact Shelly and see what they have to say. Thanks for your help!

Shelly Dimmer with MQTT

Configuration

francisp (Francis) November 22, 2019, 9:20am 2

You can try this :