Technical details about native Shelly Integration

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Hi all,

I’m using several shelly devices via mqtt and everything is working fine. Some month ago home assistant starts supporting shelly devices natively via shelly integration (https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/shelly).

I did some tests with this “new” integration and for now everything is working fine. But I could not found many technical details. Could someone answer the following questions?

  1. What protocol is used for the native shelly integration?

  2. Do I need static IP-adresses within the shelly devices?
    (And if so: Could I adjust the IP in Home Assistant if the IP changed?)

And furthermore: Are there any pros and cons using mqtt vs. native shelly integration? For me a pro is, that I could save a lot of manual configuration. Are the more arguments?

Thanks
Martin

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