I've been singing the praises of #Shelly as a company as I've had good luck with some of the Shelly Plus 2 PM relays, but I've not had such good luck with their smart plugs. I have two plugs stuck in some weird state.
They're showing as unavailable in #HomeAssistant. During that troubleshooting, I realized they had updated their app.
Ok, no problem. I'll get the new one, but I couldn't log into the new app with the old credentials.
Ok, I'll create a new account on the new platform, but now I can't import my devices as they say they're associated with another account.
Well, that sucks, but fine, let's just reset the devices to factory. But even after they're still associated with the other account... I presume on Shelly Cloud or whatever they call their dumb thing.
I've mentioned a few times here how I have struggled with ESPHome devices because I don't think I'm quite managing things correctly. At least ESP Home is 100% fully local—no 3rd party app is required. No account. My devices don't get registered with the mothership.
All that to say, I'm going to take a closer look at #KaufHA plugs for smart plugs, and probably #Zooz relays for relay applications.
@michaelharley Not familiar with these devices, but if you do decide to switch things up, sticking with a ZigBee base is a good way to early opt out of this category of issues.
When you power up in Shelly-devices for the first time, they will create a local access point where you can connect to, and connect to the devices HTTP-server. You can configure the device to be entirely "offline" :)
@michaelharley I've never used the Shelly app. They open a temporary wlan - I connect to that, browser-based setup (192.168.33.1 iirc), configure them to connect to my own and set the password (and other necessary settings) and then switch control to HA.
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