I moved this to the openHAB Stories category. That category was created for this sort of posting.
We love this sort of posting!
Are they back in stock? I wanted to get a couple a few weeks ago but they were out of stock. There is no need to flash the Shellys. They natively support local MQTT and turning off the cloud connection. You can flash them if you want to but don’t have to.
If you have a whole lot of devices I recommend Tasmota over ESP Easy because of GitHub - arendst/Tasmota: Alternative firmware for ESP8266 and ESP32 based devices with easy configuration using webUI, OTA updates, automation using timers or rules, expandability and entirely local control over MQTT, HTTP, Serial or KNX. Full documentation at which will let you centrally admin all the tasmota devices for configs and firmware updates and such.
Very nice. I keep starting a nice display like that and losing interest. Soon perhaps I’ll pick it up again. I like the color scheme. Did you have to find/create the icons or are most of those built in?
I’ve so many projects going right now it’s hard to pick.
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Recreating my RPi based garage controller to an ESP8266 but I may have shot myself in the foot as I’m not sure 3.5v is enough to flip this model. The project case I got for it is too small too so I need to deal with both of these problems before I can do much more progress here.
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I just got my wife switched over from Dexcom Clarity to xDrip+ and Nightscout and am exploring how/whether to add low/high blood sugar alarms to the automation.
We are still figuring out the ins and outs and settings but so far it works like a charm. It’s FOSS and the API is pretty good. I’m just not sure yet what to do with it from a home automation perspective. Though let me tell you, the OH community runs circles around these guys in terms of documentation and support. Just remember that the next time you want to complain about OH’s docs. 
- Systematically exploring and exercising the Experimental Next-Gen Rules Engine to write some documentation for it which you can find in progress for here.
This is taking up the bulk of my time.
- I have parts for but not started a new garage lighting project based on this instructables. The only part I don’t have yet is the Shelly 1 which I want to use to control it. I’ll probably use a sonoff for the time being. But we are in the planning stages of a home addition and want to wait until that gets done before I do it.
