WTH Or why I use Shelly

Month of "What the heck?!"
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I think to share WTH-moments to trigger discussions, it can also be a positive one, can’t it?

I am exceptionally impressed by Shelly, meanwhile have more than 40 Shellys in action. And while I see a lot of opportunity to improve on the integration process, I had too much trouble in the multi-story town house we live in, to appreciate Zigbee and other “solutions” that ask me to setup an additional network, where WiFi and Bluetooth are practically everywhere available. Can’t tell how often i.e. my Bosch Thermostats and door-window-contacts fail and require manual interaction to reset them. Zigbee failed to connect on my first use-case, as the HA is in the basement and I’d have needed it on upper floor. With Shelly it was painless as can be.

Especially the ability to keep switches, simply “adding” smart to them is priceless. And adding smart switches where I have electricity but no switch (i.e. terrace light, Xmas-lights) makes them invaluable.

So thanks Shelly for challenging all those island solutions. And for integrating just perfectly into HA. Big “love” :heart_hands:

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No, as explained in the announcement, WTHs are for feature requests.

Please do not raise a WTH topic unless you need people to actually vote for something you’re proposing. The mods have been swamped all month trying to keep up with WTH posts and you’re not helping.

Kindly consider renaming your topic & switching it to a different category. Thank you.

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Actually they are for more than that. It’s a snapshot of what the community finds good and bad.

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