Manage my Shelly 1 with Raspberry PI and NodeRed

Hi Nalcom,

first of all: I hope you can follow me and my explanation, although my english is quite poor - I learned ist more than 40 years ago at school...

Regarding your topic:

Why do you use MQTT?

Is this you standard and running well with your equipment except your shellys?

I do not have any practical knowledge with MQTT.

I use another way - in my opinion much more easier:

To control my shellys with NodeRed I installed the special shelly nodes:

The four new nodes allow to control Shelly Switch, roller shutter and dimmer. At last you can get signals from Shelly door:

In the picture above you can see my testflow for you.

With three inject-nodes you can turn the relay on, turn it off and check the actual state.

First you have to configure the shelly switch node:

If you didn't set login data in your shelly configuration, you have only to enter the IP-adress of the shelly.

To turn ON the shelly you have to inject the following payload in the shelly node:

To turn OFF the shelly you have to inject the following payload in the shelly node:

To check the state of the relay you have to inject an empty payload in the shelly node:

If you configure the debug node as shown the node will inform you about the state (under the node) and the payload (debug window):

I hope this all is understandable and will help you, even though it is not MQTT.

Best regards

Wolfgang

You're welcome...