ShellyCloudPlugin

[jdfkok]

Hi, does the plug-in support the Shelly Dimmer 2 as well or should I get the "old" Shelly dimmer?

[mariopeters]

Hi, does the plug-in support the Shelly Dimmer 2 as well or should I get the "old" Shelly dimmer?

I should support the Shelly Dimmer 2. I never tried it with the old Shelly Dimmer.

[darrepac]

Sorry for the stupid question but it is the first time I am not understanding how to integrate new devices...
So plugin is ok and I configured it in hardware, at the end it says "everything ok the device is added in the devices tab" or something similar... but I have no device in the devices tab... I probably missed something

[darrepac]

Errors in the logs:
2020-09-23 12:15:10.629 Error: (ShellyCloudPlugin) failed to load 'plugin.py', Python Path used was '/home/pi/domoticz/plugins/ShellyCloudPlugin/:/usr/lib/python37.zip:/usr/lib/python3.7:/usr/lib/python3.7/lib-dynload:/usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages:/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages:/usr/lib/python3.7/dist-packages'.
2020-09-23 12:15:10.629 Error: (Shelly Cloud Plugin) Module Import failed, exception: 'ModuleNotFoundError'
2020-09-23 12:15:10.629 Error: (Shelly Cloud Plugin) Module Import failed: ' Name: requests'
2020-09-23 12:15:10.629 Error: (Shelly Cloud Plugin) Error Line details not available.

SO I checked and requests was present for python 2.7 but probably missing for python 3
I needed to install pip for python 3 and install requests then

So it works ok!
2020-09-23 12:23:00.464 Status: (Shelly Cloud Plugin) Entering work loop.
2020-09-23 12:23:00.465 Status: (Shelly Cloud Plugin) Initialized version 1.0.0, author 'Mario Peters'

It created 2 (?) devices: 1 Usage/Electric and 1 General/kWh

[MikeyMan]

Do i understand correctly that this plugin works with shelly cloud enabled?

[darrepac]

Do i understand correctly that this plugin works with shelly cloud enabled?

Yes! that's the big plus comparing to the other plugin that use MQTT (and so you have to disable Cloud)

[MikeyMan]

Sorry for being a total n00b, but am i correct in assuming that you need to add all shellys manually as 'hardware'? Not as 'device'?

Scripting is not my forte i'm afraid.

First feedback; won't work without username/password

[mariopeters]

Sorry for being a total n00b, but am i correct in assuming that you need to add all shellys manually as 'hardware'? Not as 'device'?

Scripting is not my forte i'm afraid.

First feedback; won't work without username/password

That's correct.
You have to add every Shelly one-by-one as separate devices.

[MikeyMan]

Sorry for being a total n00b, but am i correct in assuming that you need to add all shellys manually as 'hardware'? Not as 'device'?

Scripting is not my forte i'm afraid.

First feedback; won't work without username/password

That's correct.
You have to add every Shelly one-by-one as separate devices.

Is it possible to change this? Might make stuff a bit more easily manageable.

[darrepac]

I agree...we should have 1 hardware (Shelly) and X devices (all the shellys)

[mariopeters]

I understand your point, but I am still thinking about the practical details.
How do you envision that Domoticz finds the different Shelly devices when adding 1 hardware?
With a Domoticz plugin you can only use text fields (or a dropdown list) for configuration.
One solution would be a text field with a list of ip addresses (";" separated).
However, the Shelly devices must all have the same username and password.
Do you see this as a workable solution?

[MikeyMan]

I understand your point, but I am still thinking about the practical details.
How do you envision that Domoticz finds the different Shelly devices when adding 1 hardware?
With a Domoticz plugin you can only use text fields (or a dropdown list) for configuration.
One solution would be a text field with a list of ip addresses (";" separated).
However, the Shelly devices must all have the same username and password.
Do you see this as a workable solution?

Good point. For myself I wouldn’t use a username and password at all.
I cannot imagine people using different passwords for their Shelly’s if i’m honest?

[darrepac]

A list of IP separated by ; sounds reasonable
I agree with question above: why do you need username/password? Is it mandatory for using CoAP?

[mariopeters]

What do you mean with CoAP?

[darrepac]

Thought you were using it: https://shelly-api-docs.shelly.cloud/#coiot-protocol

Which protocol are you using?

[mariopeters]

I'm using the regular json api as described on https://shelly-api-docs.shelly.cloud.
I'm not sure if it is the same as CoAP.
Could you explain more about it?

[darrepac]

ok so in most cases there is no need of login/password, should be optional:

All resources except for /shelly will require Basic HTTP authentication when it is enabled via /settings/login.

This + the list of ip separated by ";" sounds better to me

[mariopeters]

I think I'm able to work this out.
But I need a solution for the Door/Window sensor.
This device is mostly in sleeping modus.
So I'm not able to check the device type by just executing the url http://<ip>/shelly
Darrepac, do you know a solution for this problem?

[darrepac]

I guess you may need to activate it before to call the ip ?
No idea

[mariopeters]

My experience is that the sensor only remains active for a very short time to be accessed with an http call.
Think I'll have to test with this.
By the way, I still have to change a few things to get this working properly.
Don't expect me to make this adjustment any time soon.
Will post the progress on this forum.