Setup Shelly Motion with Hubitat

James_be · June 11, 2021, 10:39am

Have installed the drivers from GitHub - ShellyUSA/Hubitat-Drivers: Device Handlers To Use Shelly Products With Hubitat for my Shelly Motion

But I am unable to get it to trigger a light, does not show up in the logs when I trigger motion

Could someone, please, provide detailed step by step process to get this configured?

Have tried both Shelly IP and Shelly MQTT IP

James_be · June 16, 2021, 7:08pm

Nobody out here using the Shelly Motion device?

James_be · June 16, 2021, 7:43pm

Thanks for your assistance, I am new at this.
Thought Shelly had MQTT built in the device, guess my settings are incorrect? I did not install external MQTT Broker.

tomw · June 16, 2021, 9:40pm

It looks like the driver for Shelly Motion connects to the MQTT broker directly, so I assume it is even simpler to set up because an additional Hubitat MQTT app is not required.

James_be · June 17, 2021, 7:22am

I should be simple but I am missing something. I guess it must be a setting or preference but I am unable to figure out what exactly

tomw · June 17, 2021, 1:03pm

What issue are you stuck on? Did you get your external MQTT broker up and running?

James_be · June 17, 2021, 1:22pm

I thought the MQTT broker was not needed as it is built-in the Shelly device. I made the wrong assumption it seems.

James_be · June 17, 2021, 1:28pm

Have no raspberry at hand at the moment but will try this on my QNAP or Synology NAS, they seem to have MQTT brokers you can install. Thanks for your advice.

tomw · June 17, 2021, 2:03pm

Ah, yes, you need an external MQTT broker and then you point both the Shelly device and the Hubitat virtual device at the same broker.

I like https://mosquitto.org/, as @anon81541053 also suggested.