Hi, I have recently set up a pi5 running HA and another pi with screen that’s wall mounted to control the lights in our main living area. all these lights are operated via a 8 relay board. This is all fantastic and working really well.
I now want to replace the rest of the lights in the house to control the all the other lights in the house and be able to dim on a few would be great too.
I have checked out some guides for switches, that include wireless flashing or soldering on wires to be able to flash. Oh and depending on age of switch it wont work.
I have no smart switches at all, so I need buy some. I really dont want to buy switched that will immediately need to be stripped down flashed etc etc.
What wall mounted switch can connect to HA simply and is able to be dimmed?
Something that installs like the esp32 that controls my relay board would be great!!
Shelly.
Note there are multiple devices. Dimmer is one of them
Also note, you can find 3 generations of their products. gen1, Plus (gen2) and gen3.
Most of gen1 is not officially sold. gen1 is wifi. gen2 and gen3 wifi+BT. They gen2 and gen3 AC/DC powered devices can work as BT gateways. (this is ingenious move)
They have a few Zwave devices too.
HA provides built-in integrations for Shelly wifi devices. Though, they can work with MQTT too (I opted in for this way of integration and strongly suggest this option)
See shelly.cloud webpage.
PS They sell small touch wall screens, recently they made it possible to display the HA dashboard on that.