Send periodic power consumption status to external MQTT Broker

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    Hello,

    I am pretty new to Shellys, but plan to use them for power monitoring at power plugs and light switches. I want to send periodic power consumption data (and also, if available, event data like "light on"/"light off"), to an external MQTT broker using MQTTS and username/password authentication. After reading through the documentation, I am quite sure this should work, but to be sure I am asking here.

    So, to summarize, my questions are:

    - Can I configure a Shelly to send the power consumption data periodically via MQTT?

    - Can I configure a Shelly to send events (e.g. light on/off) via MQTT?

    - Can I use an external MQTT broker by its domain name (e.g. mqtt.somedomain.com:8883)?

    - Can I use username/password authentication?

    - Can I use encrypted MQTT (MQTTS) - pretty sure that this works :) ?

    Thanks & best regards

    Philipp