Hi everyone,
I’ve installed Homey Self-Hosted on a Raspberry Pi 4. I was able to integrate all my Shelly sensors except the Door/Window/BLU sensors. Is that even possible, or is it only possible with the Homey Bridge?
Thanks
If you mean the Bluetooth devices:
Go to Shelly | Homey
Select Homey Self-Hosted Server
I guess the answer is in the Device List
You canpair Shelly BT devices to rhe shelly wifi modules which support BT and not directly to Homey.
In the case you want the Shelly BT button to be used directly, then you need the bridge.
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Thanks for your replies. I kind of figured that. I guess I’ll have to buy a bridge then.
I’ve ordered a bridge.
But that raises another question: do I need more than one bridge?
I live in a house with four floors: basement, ground floor, first floor, and attic. Will the Bluetooth connection work across all floors, or do I need range extenders?
This very much depends on the structure of your house, if it is an older or very new one made from wood with wooden in between floors then there is no real issue.
If it is an concrete fortress, then you need to have probably more repeaters. The bridge is your starting point, but you can add zigbee repeaters to extend your reach. Normally zigbee equipment witch is always on are repeaters as well.
I my self have used some Ikea repeaters and spread then through the house hidden under the kitchen, couch and a cabinet (out of sight).
The raspberry pi (which is running homey) already has Bluetooth, and all the shelly BLE devices are already connected on it. Homey should be able to add them. Sounds like a cash grab to me.
Yes, that sounds like it.
I now have a bridge, but the Shelly BLU sensors aren’t working. I can connect them, but they’re not transmitting any status changes; it’s all very annoying.
i have a bridge with homey cloud (will move to shs soon). BT is not working well from a bridge, the range is short, for instance a switchbot door sensor is mounted 3 meters from the bridge, with a door in between, it reads -75db. Now i did modify the bridge with external antenna’s, but only with zigbee and zwave antenna’s. bluetooth and wifi is sharing the same circuitboard antenna, and same esp32 chip.
i think that wifi has been given priority, as its a continuous stream of data. i was thinking in modifying this bt/wifi antenna as well, but then i saw something on the switchbot app threads on this forum, that an app can only poll bluetooth every 30seconds!. this means that status updates might be missed or delayed. so not bothering with modifying the antenna now.
its too bad that by design the bridge cannot handle bluetooth well, it has been build for also supporting the american and asia markets, as it contains -in europe- unused antennas for 900mhz zwave. the circuiboard space it occupies could have been used to implement separate bluetooth wifi antenna’s with each their own controller chip. add the lack of thread radio, and i conclude that its nearing end of life.
so i use a separate hass box for bluetooth only , which is linked over lan to homey
