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The Shelly stuff is very nice, extremely reliable. I've used a whole pile of different products to test in single units and finally settled on using Shelly wherever I can and some special stuff for the few things that require different interfaces than Shelly provides. I use their 3 phase power sensors, thermostatic controls for on the radiators, temperature and humidity sensors and relays. Everything is on a separate WiFi network to make it independent of the rest of the house internet setup and it all runs off a Raspi 400 running HA. It's been up and running for well over a year now without a hitch and does all of the energy management, heating, cooling and monitoring.

The only gripe I have about the Shelly stuff is that it uses more power than what you would expect for stuff that is pretty much very intermittent use and as a result I've wired up everything with 5V wall warts, very low power to save on parasitic drain. We've done what we could to knock down our daily average and typically do about 8-10KWh/day so every little bit counts.

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