What is the Shelly Wall Display?
Shelly Wall Display is an intuitive 4” touch-screen wall display that gives you easy, centralised control and monitoring of all your Shelly devices and scenes. With a beautiful, minimalistic look and customisable display, Shelly Wall Display will seamlessly blend with your interior décor and adjust perfectly to your needs. Featuring embedded sensors for temperature, humidity & LUX (light level) and built-in 5A relay switch.
What is Home Assistant?
Home Assistant is the World’s most popular open source home automation software platform, powered by a massive community of tinkerers and DIY smart home enthusiasts. Running locally on your home network, it prioritises privacy, ensures fast response times and operates even without internet access. Home Assistant supports a huge range of smart devices and services, is highly customisable and possibly best of all… is free to use. All of this makes Home Assistant a very flexible, powerful and cost-effective solution for any smart home.
How do I make Shelly Wall Display work with Home Assistant?
Now this is where things get interesting… Shelly have recently released an update (currently in Beta, more on this below) that allows Wall Display to work with Home Assistant. This is huge! We now have a relatively low cost way to access and interact with highly customisable Home Assistant Dashboards on a compact, wall mountable touch-screen display. Now your smart home is at your fingertips in any room you like… turn on lights, check the weather, control Spotify and your speakers… and so much more.
How to add Home Assistant to Shelly Wall Display
At the time of writing this blog (October 2024), we need to update the Wall Display firmware to a beta version (2.3.0-beta). This will change in the near future when this update becomes stable… in which case you will just need to make sure you are running the latest stable firmware and you can start at step 2 below…
2. On the Wall Display, select Settings > Network.
6. Once rebooted, select Settings > Network > Home Assistant again (see steps 2 & 3 above).
8. If an HA server cannot be found, you’ll need to enter your full HA server IP address manually (e.g. http://192.168.1.182:8123/).
It’s highly recommended to log in with a non-admin local user, turn on kiosk mode and set up a simple dashboard just for your Wall Display. Even though the update installs the newest WebView on your Wall Display, complex Home Assistant dashboards might still load slowly and act unpredictably.
That’s all there is to it. Start enjoying Home Assistant on your Shelly Wall Display 🙂