"This integration allows exposing data from Victron devices with Instant Readout enabled in Home Assistant."
Combined with the Bluetooth capabilities of the Shelly line of products this would allow gathering key data from the Victron Charge Controllers that many of us favor.
EDIT ADD: Relevant HA thread & posts on how this is being used/integrated
Requires Bluetooth so a gateway.
I was hoping for a path that would allow for the Victron to talk Bluetooth to the Shelly and then the Shelly to talk Zigbee to the HE Hub.
Victron devices can do Bluetooth advertisements. A Shelly script should be able scrape it and then turn around and deliver it to Hubitat. How you do that depends on what you want.
Copilot wrote me a script then asked me if I wanted a Hubitat driver or wanted to use maker.
For most things that can be integrated with home assistant, it’s usually the case that a Hubitat integration could be created as well.
It may require additional hardware though, like in this case since Hubitat has no Bluetooth radio.
And in any case, a sufficiently motivated developer has to do the necessary coding.
That’s where home assistant often has an advantage over Hubitat. More users/developers = more integration possibilities.
HA can be a great Bluetooth bridge to Hubitat via HADB app when there is a Bluetooth integration available for HA. I think it can be worth the time to setup HA on a Rasp. PI just for for one integration, if it is worth it to you.
I'm waiting on a smart xmas light tree to arrive for my yard next week, I already have a long range Bluetooth usb adapter connected to HA on my PI4, and I'm controlling some other Bluetooth string lights with Hubitat via HA now, so I should be able to connect the tree to Hubitat, since there is an HA Bluetooth integration for the app it uses.
I'll find out next week.
I'd script it with Shelly.
Could probably do it with a plug like this one:
Yeah that may be the way to go!
New territory for me. Bought my first Shellys during the recent sales. Been avoiding them cause I wanted to try to stay 100% Zigbee if I could. Shelly's Gen 4 stuff brings Zigbee onboard !
Now I guess I'm seeing the bits & pieces of things I've stumbled upon (admittedly outside of our Forum) aren't similarly evolved in the HE space.
So if this is scripted on the Shelly (to be picked up via Bluetooth from the Victron) is there HE Driver or App that could present that data from a Zigbee connected Shelly?
Purchased: Shelly 1 Gen 4
I assume you are a programmer. Like I mentioned copilot did a pretty good job writing a script and knocking out a driver when I did a test prompt. Are you willing to roll your own?
That code generation success still blows my old mind. I will start messing with the Shelly first. I don't even have that Bluetooth Advertisement aspect worked out yet. I think I expected more just getting the Shelly to see the Victron as a device today.
Which victron device are you going to be targeting? I have several blue devices.
Just one MPPT 75/15 none of their really fancy stuff, but it really solves a problem for me and I'd just like to have its' onboard status information available in HE.
Which specific model? Does it have Bluetooth? There are some that dont. You need the SmartSolar and not the BlueSolar.
If you have the smart one update your firmware. You can enable live data. That turns on Bluetooth advertising. You can get the Mac address and key in settings.
Do have the Smart
Do have latest firmware
Do have MAC & Key
But not sure I have ever explicitly enabled Live Data. I do see it when opening up the Victron App so I expect that's a broadcast before even making the BT connection.
-------The research and work others have done on this....it seems it hasn't been a trivial exercise, especially surrounding handling the data format and encryption... but these folks have moved the ball forward!
You can do the aes decrypt on Hubitat.
Getting closer !
EDIT ADD:
Driving blind here...but all be damn if this doesn't look like the Victron MPPT status data being picked up and decrypted! This is in the Shelly log screen under the running script (uncheck script only logging).
Nice. I hadn't seen another aes example so the assumption was that it wasn't built in.
So, if you wait long enough somone will build it for you 
Download the Hubitat app
