Shelly 2.5: How to Configure Double Click and Long Click
Detect multi-clicks using Home Assistant with default integration for Shelly 2.5
If you’re building a Smart Home, the chances are you’re already familiar with Shelly 2.5 relays.
Shelly 2.5 is one of the most popular relays for controling electric roller shutters using WiFi.
One annoying downside of this relay is that it does not recognize different types of clicks of the box.
In this article, I describe how to detect multi-clicks using Home Assistant with default integration for Shelly 2.5 (using CoIoT and Roller Shutter device type).
Intro
I’m a Shely user for more than a year and they mostly work well.
“Mostly” because they sometimes drop off WiFi for no reason.
By diving deeper into this issue, I discovered that the reason could be in the MQTT protocol instead of the recommened CoIoT.
I’ve decided to give CoIoT a try and since enabling it, I haven’t observed a Shelly droping off WiFi, which is nice.
Another problem appeared when I switched to the default Home Assistant integration for Shelly with CoIoT…
