The issue occurs with any Shelly devices I have and is not fixed with 0.117
Just discovered that I also have the same problem running 117.1 for my Shellys
Same here. I’ve got a range of Shelly devices (Plug, Plug S, EM, 2.5) and all show the same behaviour. Suddenly offline and then available again. Did not happen when I had them on MQTT. Some devices are very close to mesh accesspoint and other devices stay connected to wifi, so I don’t think wifi is to blame.
Oh dear, same problem here.
ShellyEM
Not a wifi problem, as strength is strong and stable.
Connected using the new Shelly integration.
Really hurting accuracy.
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Same problem here! All of my 11 shelly 2.5 are added through the integration page, but keep losing connection every few minutes. Because of this my automations are unreliable, because half of the time the shelly’s are unreachable in HA. I am on version 0.117.4, so what’s the solution…
You can follow this issue here:
It seems that it may be better with 0.118. If you don’t want to wait you can install the update as a custom component (all instructions in the GitHub link)
I’m on 0.118 beta for a few days. Problem seems better now but has not fully disappeared unfortunately.
18 occurencies in the last 14 hours, wich is better than the hundreds on 0.117 but still no full fix.
Question out of curiosity: why so many of you opt for dependancy on an integration which is by many means suboptimal comparing to using mqtt?
With Mqttt reliability as well as feature set doesn’t change from version to version.
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Also mqtt pushes changes instantly where as the integration is polled on a fixed interval. Seems like there really is no reason to use the integration.
Good question.
Downside of MQTT is that you lose cloud functionality on Shelly and thereby also all iOS integrations of Shelly like Widgets & Actions.
I was on MQTT previously and the HA iOS app is far from perfect, especially regarding Actions. Take a look here: Configuring Actions without icon
I wanted to give the standard integration a go so I could fully use the Cloud & Shelly App, but didn’t realise the HA Integration was this bad 
Thanx for the answer.
I was never considering use of shelly cloud since HA through NabuCasa gives the same.
Also HA integrates with HomeKit and HA app provides some widgets (I’m not using them so don’t know limitations)
But I understand it you might have different needs.
You aren’t right. Integration in HA 0.118 listen to CoAP multicast and not polling the devices.
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Integration from dev repository requires HA 0.118 so if you install it as a custom component on HA 0.117 it will not work.
This means that you have problem with multicast in your network. Try to enable IGMP snooping for your 2,4 GHz WiFi network on your router/AP.
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Glad to hear it. However 0.118 has not been released from beta yet so it’s still polling.
Hi All I had the same problem on 117 now on118 with no problems
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Hi all,
I have a similar problem. I don’t have the HA integration for the Shelly EM activated. I use mqtt sensors. But some times it seems that shelly don’t send the information to HA, I can connect by ip to the shelly, and its working well and I can see in real time the energy, but the information don’t arrive to HA. I need to reboot the shelly EM and then, all is working again. But, the problem is that I lost all the information for the utility meter sensors all the time that shelly dont’ send the information, and then, I need to reset all the utility meter sensors and is not easy to do…
More people have this problem?, how is possible to solve?.
Thanks,
Jose
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Yes, HA integration for my Shelly 3EM now and then stops sending data, sensors become unavailable. Then they reappear again sometimes, and sometimes I have to restart HA.
I’d advise you all to skip the Shelly integration and use its native MQTT communication instead. This is 100% reliable. The only downside is you lose access to the cloud.
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I’ll definitely consider that, do you recommend mqtt over a rest sensor?