Douglas had just finished building his first birdfeeder at a Lowes workshop for kids.

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Are you in South Florida and interested in "hands on" experience with Shelly dimming products? This month, we're having two workshops at the Shelly USA office in Boca Raton, where I'll show you wiring for Shelly Dimmer Gen4 US, Dimmer 0/1-10v PM Gen3, Plus RGBW PM, and Plus Wall Dimmer. Sessions are Tuesday April 14 at 11 am and Saturday April 18 at am. Come to either or both events! Use the free account option to sign up - no need to pay for a membership. meetup.com/boca-raton-shelly…

Are you a Home Assistant enthusiast in South Florida? Come out to the Shelly USA office in Boca Raton on Friday, April 17th for this month's meetup! You can meet other enthusiasts and also sit in while I install a local LLM for use with Home Assistant Voice Preview. Use the free account option to sign up - no need to pay for a membership. meetup.com/south-florida-hom…

Are you in South Florida, want to attend a Wired for Shelly workshop, but can't deal with Friday night or Saturday afternoon? Tuesday December 2nd, 11 am, you can attend Session 1, which covers naming conventions, product selection for your use case, and how to wire Shelly 1PM. These 90 minute workshops are always free and led by me in the Shelly USA office. No matter your skill level, if you spend this time with me in the classroom, I promise you'll walk out having learned something useful. You can sign up for the meetup here: meetup.com/boca-raton-shelly…

Are you in South Florida? Want to learn more about scripting with Shelly products? Come to the Shelly USA office on Tuesday, November 18th. This group, led by two professional developers who are also Shelly product experts and power users, will help introduce you to the most powerful feature of the Shelly platform. Shelly uses JavaScript, the language that the Internet is built on, to give you the ability to create locally operated custom features right on the device itself. meetup.com/shelly-usa-script…

If you're in South Florida and would like an introduction to using Shelly, please join me at my office in Boca Raton this Saturday for the first "Wired for Shelly" workshop. I'll give you a general introduction to the products, understanding naming conventions, show you how to select the right product for your project, and show some basic wiring for switches and outlets. The meetup runs from 1pm until 2:30 pm. Register (for free) using this link: meetup.com/boca-raton-shelly…

Do you have a cool project using Shelly? Does everybody need to see it? That we should put it on the Shelly website? Want a chance to win lots of free Shelly? There are 3 categories with 3 prizes each in this contest, which runs until July 15th. us.shelly.com/pages/shelly-s…

If your smart home isn’t outsmarting you yet, you’re doing it wrong.

I wired up my old signal horn with Shelly 1 and will buzz when important events happen, recreating my first smart home project from 2005! A later entry will show how to trigger the buzzer with scripts. Yet another "I've been meaning to..." shellyusa.atlassian.net/wiki…

Home Assistant Community Day is on May 24th - come out to the Shelly USA office in Boca Raton FL to meet other Home Assistant enthusiasts! Here's the registration page (in case you want me to bring some loot for you): lu.ma/event/manage/evt-BlDZO…

Travis from digiblurDIY covers Shelly Gen4 products with Matter and Zigbee support youtube.com/watch?v=uLH7UzsG…

Shelly Scripting - Virtual Components Class The next Shelly Scripting class from Shelly Academy is coming on May 27th and will cover Virtual Components. This is the most powerful feature of Shelly products, giving you the ability to create custom functionality in each Shelly device, using Shelly BLU devices or any third party product with an API. There is no limit to what you can do. us.shelly.com/products/shell…

We have upcoming webinars for you! Zigbee Fundamentals - May 9: events.teams.microsoft.com/e… Shelly Basics - May 23: events.teams.microsoft.com/e… You can get more details about webinar contents on the registration pages.

I'm still installing Gen4 devices, so I thought to share one from the "I've been meaning to...." file - GFCI outlet shellyusa.atlassian.net/wiki…

shellyusa.atlassian.net/wiki… I've got my hands on a few Gen4 units from colleagues in Europe and remembered how useful the 1PM design is for wiring - especially when there are headaches waiting in the wall box. Every day, you're likely to see me pushing Shelly 1PM as the best product for outlets and switched lighting - maybe so often that you're tired of hearing about it. The bottom line is that there are always problems when you go to wire devices in anything but a brand new home and Shelly 1PM helps overcome a lot of these issues.

⁦@MattTaven⁩ this young man says he’s hoping to see you on TV again really soon (and asks if you know when). He also said he wished he could go to PSL on Friday, but is attending his granddad’s 86th birthday.