Beiträge von thilor

  • Motion sensor for cat with alert chime/light

    As probably many people have pets playing outside once in a while, I'm looking to find a way to know when my cat is at our door or window to get back inside.

    During the summer I leave our back window open and our cat can freely go in and out, but with the winter coming I'd rather prefer to keep the window closed to not lose heat.
    Then there is also the problem that other animals can get inside, we had a ginger cat visiting us while on vacation and our cat unknowingly still somewhere outdoors, later on when we were back home that cat kept visiting us.

    Since I work from home it'll be nice to have a sensor that warns me of any motion or presence with a sound/chime when my cat is next to the window, it's a window where nobody is supposed to be except our cat, so any motion of a live animal could be detected.
    As I don't want any false alarms I think a bluetooth BLE solution with a BLE tag would be ideal.

    I've seen some products online using batteries and wireless 433 MHz signal, but I'd prefer something more robust and future proof, and not consuming too much power.

    Some other ideas/links, but I would prefer to have something working with Shelly devices eco-system.

    - https://www.bol.com/be/nl/p/cat-do…00000104453502/

    - https://www.conrad.com/p/cat-hound-ca…e-1-pcs-1555328

    I was thinking

    Some links of BLE projects or similar questions:

    - https://www.reddit.com/r/arduino/comm…th_beacons_and/

    - https://circuitdigest.com/microcontrolle…rol-using-esp32

    - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azT2rosEo0k

    - https://www.hackster.io/AbudeyeW/autom…sing-ble-ecf97f

    - https://www.reddit.com/r/esp32/commen…ion_to_control/

    So, two options I guess:

    1) A classic outdoor sensor which is powered by 230V + Shelly i3
    Can such a sensor simulate a pushbutton for example?

    2) Bluetooth Low Energy

    A BLE sender/receiver setup. When cat with the tag is in range, a chime our notification on my phone via the Shelly app for example...


    Anyone here already made something similar in a weather and pet proof way yet?

  • Shelly in two different houses

    Create a separate Shelly cloud account for every home.
    With Gmail you can use for example 'name+[house1]@gmail.com' and name+[house2]@gmail.com as e-mailadress, so you don't need to use a new e-mailaddress for that...
    Should also work with Hotmail and if activated Microsoft 365.

    Another option is using Google Assistant, and move your devices in the correct home in the Google Home app itself, and not use the Shelly app.

  • Detects motion, Lights stay off

    It's really annoying I/O actions don't work fine or continuously as supposed. Since I installed the Shelly motions more than a year ago, they worked fine for some time, then I upgraded the firmware, broke the whole good experience, and since then sometimes I had to reconfigure them at random times, because they just stopped working at random without any reason.

    Now I started using scenes instead of the I/O actions, and disabled all actions. Scenes 'seem' to work much better than actions. Why? Why is there a difference?

  • Can't change to white or color mode

    For example when the Bulb RGBW is in color mode, it can't switch to white mode from a HTTP command I use manually in a webbrowser or via Shelly Motion...

    Command :
    http://[ipaddress]/white/0?mode=white&turn=on&brightness=50&temp=3000

    Result :

    Code
    {"ison":true,"source":"http","has_timer":false,"timer_started":0,"timer_duration":0,"timer_remaining":0,"mode":"color","red":255,"green":0,"blue":0,"white":0,"gain":90,"temp":3000,"brightness":50,"effect":0}

    So the command doesn't return any error but doesn't change to white mode as requested.

    Anyone has an idea? Is the http req invalid?

    Haven't reset the bulb yet... ;(

  • http command to turn off multiple channels

    Giving this topic a bump, I would like to turn off or on two channels on a Shelly2.5 but can't seem to make it work. I'm using a Shelly Motion to turn off lights when no movement is detected, or also a button to turn off all lights when long pressed...

    http://[ipaddress]/relay/0?turn=[command]&1?turn=[command]


    http://[ipaddress]/relay/0?turn=[command]&relay/1?turn=[command]

    Neither works, is it even possible?