Shelly Light/Relay/RGBW AIO Driver Suite for Control4 User Guide
- June 9, 2024
- Shelly
Table of Contents
Shelly Light/Relay/RGBW AIO Driver Suite for Control4
INSTALLATION
Install your Shelly devices and configure them to connect to your local Wi‐Fi Network.
Once the Shelly device is powered on, it will broadcast an open Wi‐Fi SSID
that look like this:
Connect your laptop or mobile device to this Wi‐Fi SSID. You don’t need to install any App.
IMPORTANT NOTE FOR SHELLY BUTTON1 OR OTHER BATTERY-POWERED DEVICES:
In order for battery device to be visible on the Wi‐Fi network and thus become
available for configuration, it needs to be connected to the USB charger.
Please leave any Shelly battery-powered device plugged to the charger during
all the steps of this guide!
Use any web browser to connect to the following address:
http://192.168.33.1/
That brings you to the Shelly built‐in configuration page. Select Internet &
Security:
Then select WI‐FI MODE – CLIENT, check Connect the Shelly device to an existing WIFI network, enter the local Wi‐Fi information and click Save. (static IP is not required)
Add the Shelly Network driver first to the project and enter your licensing information
Add Shelly Device drivers as needed
Wait a few seconds and all the available Shelly devices should populate in the Device Selector property
(if for some reason the device list does not populate you can still enter the device IP manually.)
Select the device you want to control:
Information should populate along the driver properties.
If you select an incompatible device, like this dimmer selected withing the Relay driver, you will see a message indicating the device is not compatible:
To use this dimmer, you need to select it from the Shelly Dimmer driver:
You should be good to go. You can now control your Shelly device through
Control4 using the Light
Proxy or the relay connection if the device is a relay.
For devices with Inputs options, you will use the binding connections on the related driver:
Shelly Input Best Practices
Apply to: Shelly i3, Button1 and Dimmer/Relays that has an input connection
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Make sur your Control4 controller is set to a STATIC IP
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Input feedbacks rely on Web Triggering. The driver listens to an HTTP Port that can be configured on the Shelly Network driver
You can leave this port to this default value but if you need to change it, it is highly recommended to do so BEFORE configuring any other Shelly device driver in the project! -
Web Triggering work as follow:
The driver should take care of auto‐configuring most Shelly devices using Auto‐Configure URLs options:
But it is highly recommended to validate if the driver’s URLs match what is set into the Shelly Device. This is most likely the primary reason it would not work.
! Please do not use custom URLs unless absolutely necessary!
At current firmware (February 2022) the Shelly RGBW2 device does NOT support auto‐configuring URLs. You will need to copy/paste the URLs from the driver’s properties to the web interface of the RGBW2.