Hi @D-Autom8tion,
I think the BLU gateway doesn’t support active connections (which are required for this integration). So while the shelly gateway would probably allow HA to discover your chlorinator, it wouldn’t be able to connect to it.
There are some off-the-shelf esphome compatible modules that would be reasonably low fuss. Ready-Made Projects — ESPHome, for more info.
You have to manually add the github repo manually first
https://github.com/DanielNagy/astralpool_halo_chlorinator
But if you have a later Halo firmware after 2.3. Don’t bother. Theyve locked it out.
Yeah… I have 2.5… sigh…
For the first time, I’m glad I’ve got the ‘dumber’ Astral Viron EQ35 as it is still working fine with HA and this integration!
Hope you guys manage to work out a viable way to get the Halo working again!
Im about to sell my entire Astral stack over this issue and three colleagues too.
If anyone can identify a verified home assistant compatible integrated clorinator, doser, pump control and sensor group (or, etc.) Let me know please and we will start making the switch. Theres no point waiting for something that may never happen. Astral / Fluidra support is also really disappointing when it comes to the technology side of thier products. Wont ever go back.
Hi all, thanks for the great work on this over the last year or so. I have managed to get this working however, I am interested in knowing how I can turn on both heat and cleaning pump which are in the ‘other’ tab on the go app.
I only need to be able to turn on/off/auto, same as the chlorinator, but when i got this running couldn’t see them in the list of entities?
Totally agree with you on this … they have crap solutions really and their “apps” are incredibly basic.
can confirm tried today and i do have pump control but no sensors on HA.
I’ve managed to stay on 2.3 and have this HA integration working well - but yes, am concerned one day they’ll force me to update… Or there’ll be some features i need 
To require a cloud connection for a local BLE connection is stupid. But we’ll never know the reasons why they did it.
They’ve promised a public API(no date when), but I’m sure it will lack a lot of sensors the integration currently has.
As for alternatives @Mark.sydney, I believe the Hayward Aquarite Plus has options to make it internet connected. I discovered a HA integration for that some time back, cant really comment any further as I don’t own one.
To be honest, based on what I’ve seen from the available residential pool equipment available, there doesn’t seem to be any that I would class as real winners here. Their view on whats “smart” falls very short of ideal, and realistically it’s a case of “Here, we have a mobile app”. I mean, most smart home products fall into that category trying to tie you in to their own ecosystem. You need a separate app for each separate vendor (and sometimes product!)
I’ve personally started looking into the commercial pool offerings to see whats available. or Heck, maybe even go down the path of making my own pool system.
Unfortunately not as far as I can see. Forced upgrade to the broken version
