All things Shelly

ebendl said:
Would you say a Lite combined with the LR makes sense? Or should I just get another LR?
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If you already have an LR as I’m assuming then another Lite wouldn’t make all that much difference.

I went with an LR out of the logic of potentially only needing one and quickly learnt it’s simply just not on ideal and for the money 2xLites is the way to go instead.

So you can happily do a Lite alongside it.

If I had to do it all over again I would have take two Lites from the start.

I only have two LR’s because I got a good deal on the second one.

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Also for a quiet home environment the LR’s are a massive gamble with regards to the noise they make.

I had to crack mine open (a massive mission) to fill it with foam to get it to be within reasonable.
 
SauRoNZA said:
Also for a quiet home environment the LR’s are a massive gamble with regards to the noise they make.

I had to crack mine open (a massive mission) to fill it with foam to get it to be within reasonable.
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wait what?

Mine is dead quiet in a quiet house...like the synology nas was noisy. The LR is dead silent,
 
Tinuva said:
wait what?

Mine is dead quiet in a quiet house...like the synology nas was noisy. The LR is dead silent,
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Mine too. Didn't even know they could make a noise. One is above the dining room table, and the other just outside our bedroom door.
 
Hi All,

We wanted to post that under the circumstances, ICASA TA is taking a bit of time for Shelly certs.

The certs for Shelly 1,1PM,2.5,Dimmer,etc, will be available, hopefully sooner rather than later.

We have also submitted a few of the latest devices for ICASA certification but won't disclose which specifically, will be a goodie though when these will be available on takealot as well.

Here's an invoice copy for the Shelly DUO.


 
Tinuva said:
wait what?

Mine is dead quiet in a quiet house...like the synology nas was noisy. The LR is dead silent,
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One of mine is. The other was not.

Could also be that you aren’t sensitive to the radio frequency noise as many people are.

If you Google it you’ll find it’s a very common problem and luck of the draw as Ubiquiti consider it acceptable.

Combination of two noises, one being the high power antennas emitting radio frequency noise many people won’t notice. The other more irritating noise is a clicking sound almost like an old hard drive.

The RF noise you generally get on all of them to varying degrees, but most people won’t notice at all or not be bothered by it in a normal operational environment.

It changes when it’s in your bedroom in the quiet of night.

Managed to nullify it to being only audible if actively listening for it at 1m or so, but obviously there’s no warrant on it any more.
 
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SauRoNZA said:
One of mine is. The other was not.

Could also be that you aren’t sensitive to the radio frequency noise as many people are.

If you Google it you’ll find it’s a very common problem and luck of the draw as Ubiquiti consider it acceptable.

Combination of two noises, one being the high power antennas emitting radio frequency noise many people won’t notice. The other more irritating noise is a clicking sound almost like an old hard drive.

The RF noise you generally get on all of them to varying degrees, but most people won’t notice at all or not be bothered by it in a normal operational environment.

It changes when it’s in your bedroom in the quiet of night.

Managed to nullify it to being only audible if actively listening for it at 1m or so, but obviously there’s no warrant on it any more.
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Ok mine is in a spot, where I don't have to sit right next to it. I am actually very sensitive to all kinds of noises and have worked hard to move all of them out of the lounge etc. Which is why this one was particularly interesting.

Generally I do hear all kinds of noises, even rooms away if all doors open. Like a big transformer is very easy to hear. But yeah on a wifi radio it is a first. Maybe I am ever so slightly lucky with that one.
 
Tinuva said:
Ok mine is in a spot, where I don't have to sit right next to it. I am actually very sensitive to all kinds of noises and have worked hard to move all of them out of the lounge etc. Which is why this one was particularly interesting.

Generally I do hear all kinds of noises, even rooms away if all doors open. Like a big transformer is very easy to hear. But yeah on a wifi radio it is a first. Maybe I am ever so slightly lucky with that one.
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I never bothered to record it, but likely you’d only capture the clicking noises and not the RF ones.

It was bad enough that when it was parked in my study temporarily which is an alcove room off to the side of my bedroom towards the bathroom but around the corner I needed to turn it off at night so I could fall asleep.

The primary suspect was a fancy capacitor or transducer or transformer of some kind on the board that it air gapped and the moment you put a little pressure on it then it’s quiet.

I had also heard it’s largely due to the shape of the housing that it’s acoustically amplifying the noise so what I did was stick some of that door sealer tape around it and then on top of it in a few layers so that housing would square up against it.

Doubt it will catch fire or anything but you never know. Didn’t notice any ill effects performance wise, which I didn’t expect since the antenna is still free to operate as normal.

Apparently it’s not an issue on the Pros but those also have screws so even if it was, much easier to fix.
 
I appreciate I am about to ask a dumb question, but am I correct in assuming the shelly dimmer would replace the existing dimmer in the switch box?
 
ShellySA said:
If a rheostat, then yes.
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So it's a momentary switch
 
Sadly the entire house was rewired when I renovated a few years back and this is how they left it... I have picked up a bunch of those push fit connectors and will replace with them
 
Just btw, the shelly dimmer is awesome.

+ It supports dimming LED bulbs. old school dimmers dont.

Installed my 1st one yesterday. My house is full of GU10 downlights all over. Lounge alone is 8 bulbs. Able to drop the 44W down to 30W and still have loads of bright light. And on dimming when watching TV it goes to like 18W.

Not the best angle in the photo. Very happy with these dimmers. Also they need 1 less wire than a Shelly1 (they not isolated like Shelly1) which awe great for the little space available.

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xrapidx said:
Does it work with a dimmer switch, or is the switch is on off
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The shelly has 2 switch inputs, I am only using 1 because I currently have a normal switch on.

You can however have different types of switches on it, and this is the configurations you can choose between on the shelly firmware:

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I am not sure what the ideal mode and buttons would be. For now I control the dimming through Home Assistant. I wouldn't mind one of those turn knobs on it, if I knew what would be compatible with it.
 
Ugh, so I learned a few hard lessons... use a fscking multimeter to check which is the switch wire and which is the hot wire. In my photo above what's not immediately clear is that there were 3 live wires connected in a chocolate block, and then separately one wire on its own, connected either side of the old switch. There are 6 downlighters connected to this switch. My assumption was that the 3 lives were separate lines going to the lights, i.e. 3 lives, each split into 2 lights, so essentially the switched circuit. Turns out, they were hot wires piggy backing some other lights, and what I thought was the live was in fact the switched line to the lights.

Anyway, somehow through all of this I broke a shelly dimmer, so that's R400 down the drain. And then I couldn't solve it last night and ended up having to get a sparky (thankfully family) to come check it out for me this me, so no lights on that side of the house last night...
 
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