lordneon

Intro

This is a simple guide on how to automate UK lights with a Shelly 1 by installing the shelly 1 relay into the ceiling pendant which has both permanent live, neutral and a switched live back from the wall switch.

These steps are from my own experience making my lighting "smart" but also user friendly (it works via a wall switch!). This simple guide will go through replacing an a normal ceiling pendant with one with room for a Shelly 1. If you have a ceiling light with a bigger base it's even easier.

Warning Electrical regulations must be followed by law. If you are not a competent person under the regulations do not attempt electrical work. https://www.diydoctor.org.uk/projects/electrical_safety.htm

Wiring Diagram

This diagram has been taken from here and modified to include the Shelly 1.

zenxedo

TrueNAS

I will be moving from FreeNAS jails to ubuntu with docker, docker compose, and portainer. FreeNAS support and updates are lacking. There are many advantages to making the switch and with ZFS on linux I think FreeNAS may be a thing of the past. Stay tuned for a new guide of my latest setup. Check out my other gists for progress on the switch. https://gist.github.com/mow4cash/626275e095f7f90898944a85d66b3be6

WARNING READ THIS: This page contains incomplete and possibly incorrect info. The page is constantly being edited and worked on. Many of these should work but some may be broken. Read the code carefully to understand what you are doing, stuff may be need to be changed for your own use. This includes but not limited too JAIL AND ROUTER IPs, YOUR FREENAS MAIN VOLUME,THE MOST RECENT RELEASE OF DOWNLOADED FILES Use at your own risk.There may be helpful info in the comments.

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