Beiträge von PhilippReis

we are using some Shelly Plus Plug S to measure the power consumption of electrical devices. The data is sent via MQTT to our IoT Platform - there, the data is stored and visualized.

The standard behaviour of the Shelly Plus Plug S is: Send a MQTT packet each minuteSend additional MQTT packets when changes in power consumption are monitored. These packets can be very frequent (we counted up to 15 packets per minute)

For our use case, this generates an unneccesary amount of data. What we would like to achieve is: only send a packet each 5 minutes (instead of each minute).More importantly, limit the number of additional packets. Currently, they are sent even if very small changes in power consumption are detected (2.9W -> 3.0W triggers a packet). A threshold would be very helpful here, e.g. only send an additional packet if the detected change is >5%.

We checked the configuration UI that the Shellys offer. For neither 1) nor 2) we found any setting there. However, we are aware that more configuration options exist than the ones that are shown in the UI.

Thanks & best regards

Hello,

I am pretty new to Shellys, but plan to use them for power monitoring at power plugs and light switches. I want to send periodic power consumption data (and also, if available, event data like "light on"/"light off"), to an external MQTT broker using MQTTS and username/password authentication. After reading through the documentation, I am quite sure this should work, but to be sure I am asking here.

So, to summarize, my questions are:

- Can I configure a Shelly to send the power consumption data periodically via MQTT?

- Can I configure a Shelly to send events (e.g. light on/off) via MQTT?

- Can I use an external MQTT broker by its domain name (e.g. mqtt.somedomain.com:8883)?

- Can I use username/password authentication?

- Can I use encrypted MQTT (MQTTS) - pretty sure that this works ?

Thanks & best regards

Philipp