Manual device creation feature request

It would be very helpful if one had the option to create a shelly plugin device manually instead of relying on the discovery process. The obvious use case (and where I'm stuck at the moment) is when replacing the hardware for an existing indigo device and not wanting to manually update every trigger, schedule, action group, condition, and control page that references the existing device. Some of which are are also python scripts and therefore not findable via Show Dependencies.

Relatedly (I think) deleting a plugin device throws an error.

Thanks.

If you install the new Shelly device, and the plugin discovers it normally, can't you just edit the existing Indigo device and select the new Shelly device in the first popup?

Tried that, got an error, and was unable to complete configuration.

Did you try just editing the Topic Root to match the output from the new Shelly?

I only have one Shelly device, installed in a remote location which is currently offline. So I can't test this myself.

Did I post this is the wrong place? I'm trying to use Karl's ShellyDirect plugin for the new device. Control via MQTT is my fallback if I can't manually create a new device and am too lazy to edit related triggers, etc.

(I'm assuming manual creation of a MQTT device would work but haven't tried that route yet. Also, FWIW, the new shelly is replacing an entirely different protocol, so the topic root trick doesn't apply.)

Oh, my bad. I use the ShellyMQTT plugin. Ignore everything I posted.

@kmarkley : please check out the latest version v7.15.40 , that should do what you want.:
https://forums.indigodomo.com/viewtopic.php?f=328&t=23681&start=45

Karl

Thanks, but that doesn't quite do it for me. When I edit the old device, I am not able to enter anything in the MAC field (it is greyed out).

To be clear, I am not replacing one shelly device with another. I am trying to replace a completely different kind of device with a new shelly.

Thanks.

W the new version you can change the mac number.

But going from a eg zwave to a Shelly device will likely not work for any scenario/ plugin.


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But you can just try

Changed dev type then in Shelly dev edit add the up number and mac number


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But you can just try

Changed dev type then in Shelly dev edit add the up number and mac number

But I am not optimistic

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Well, they're both dimmer devices, and all my automation is based on standard dimmer commands/properties -- turn on, turn off, set brightnes, is on, is not on, etc., etc.

But you can try

Changed dev type then in Shelly dev edit add the up number and mac number

I did try but was not able to enter any data in the MAC field. It was greyed out and unselectable.

Thanks.

My assumption, not knowing what's under the hood, is that entering an IP address in the device configuration dialog would start the same process used for discovery -- and error out if unable to connect or the wrong device type was selected, etc.

On release 7.14.40 the MAC field in device config was set to read only. By editing the Devices.xml file I was able to enter the MAC address, but the device still errors out with the message "ERROR: use menu/scan to create new shelly devices"