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Hi.  I’m renovating a big house and have decided to go for Shelly to automate lights.Hi. I’m renovating a big house and have decided to go for Shelly to automate lights. I have some trouble figuring out how to deal with big rooms. Our main room is 80m2 hence will have multiple light switches. They will control the same dimmable lights. So I then decided for Shelly dimmer. But how do you handle when you have multiple light switches? I can understand that I could use soft button to automate one Shelly but preferably I want to use the same typ of switches. Can one combine say a dimmer in one end and a Shelly 1 in the other end. The Shelly 1 will not be wired to the lamp but to send url commands? The same goes for long hallways where you want two light switches. Any good ideas?  

Answer 1

What’s Shelley? Never heard of it

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@tributary809 great Wi-Fi pucks

Answer 2

You can use two way switching with them. I don’t use the stock firmware but it would be possible via mqtt and home assistant to do pretty much whatever you want control wise. There is a shelly facebook group if you want a better response?  

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@kylstra will try this out. Thanks

Answer 3

Check out the new Zooz switches. We’re building a new large custom home and I have several 3 way and 4 way switches. The new Zooz by far was the best option I could find after doing hours of research and reading of reviews.  

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@esma25062 that type of switchsize is not standard in Sweden.  

Answer 4

What / who is Shelly?  

Answer 5

You'd hope this would be possible using multiple Shellys and the http commands, but I can't see it in the API. The dimmer has url commands for each button, but there's no 'up' or 'down' commands to send to the other module when you detect the press. Might be worth asking Shelly support for advice. Otherwise, Tim's right - use a controller; if you catch the button presses from module 1, the controller can then query the brightness of module 2 and send it a 'set brightness' command with a higher or lower value as appropriate. I'm a fan of flashing the things with Tasmota or ESPEasy too, but I'm not sure either knows how to handle dimming.  

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@mel7 mm thats what I was afraid of. I’m using Athom Homey so that could be done.