Hello! Could you suggest me a relay like fibaro, but cheaper and with easy set up in Home Assistant too. And reliable, of course. If z-wave is more reliable - I should go with it.
I have z-wave stick and aqara hub, but would prefer wi fi in this case (unless you have any thoughts why wi fi here is not as good). I would like to use wi fi just because z-wave might not go for that far and I do not have a lot of z-wave devices.
I would use aqara relay but they are not supported by Home Assistant as I know.
And would be nice to get some dimmer ideas too.
Thank you
I read about Shelly and as I see, there is no official component yet, only custom one? Seems that there are three ways to communicate: mqtt, local api, cloud api. How can I choose local api? If I can not choose local api, should I have mqtt installed on Home Assistant?
There is mqtt, cloud api, device api, rest api.
I tried them all and they work, but i prefer ESPhome, all my shelly relays have ESPHome, Unfortunately ESPHome doesnt yet have support for the PM that shelly relays use, Tasmota does.
you can integrate into HA, with the stock firmware, But for auto discovery and integration you need to use the custom component, or flash your favourite firmware on it.
