This is a two-way driver to control and get feedback from supported Shelly smart light devices only including gen-2 products. The driver has been updated to take advantage of Elan’s 8.6 OS lighting enhancements. The driver can now listen to the network multicast address OR the controller’s own address for networks that have issues with multicast and to solidify lighting reporting.
The driver supports the light / switch / dimmer portion of the device. For Power Metering, Energy Monitoring, Temp & Humidity, see our Shelly Utilities Driver.
Setup your Shelly devices as instructed by the Shelly User Manual. Pay attention as each device is configured differently. The driver uses UDP multicasting. Make sure your router / switches support it. If you have VLANS, make sure VLANS can pass UDP and multicasting to different segments.
For Gen-1 devices Make sure that each lighting device has CoIot enabled and set to “mcast”. Gen-2 Devices do not have this option.
The Driver will auto provision Gen2 devices. If they are not discovered or not responding correctly, click on Provision UDP.
The driver will automatically discover and install all supported Shelly Lighting devices on the network
The Driver uses LAN mode only and does NOT require a Shelly Cloud connection for discovery or operations. However, Shelly devices must be first setup using the Shelly App or a web browser and Joined to the Network.
******The driver relies on a static IP address for each lighting device. Assign Static IP address using DHCP reservations in your router. If the device IP address changes, then change it manually in the Elan Configurator.
Note: Setting a static IP address on the Shelly device is not enough to guarantee the same address. For example, if a sensor goes to sleep then the router might assign its address to other devices, when the sensor wakes up it will try to use the already allocated IP address causing network collision issues. To avoid this assign an IP address outside the DHCP range or create a router reservation.
Install can be clicked as needed to install additional devices
If at first install doesn’t find all devices, click install again after waiting for 60 seconds. Repeat the process until all know Shelly devices are discovered and installed.
IMPORTANT NOTE:PLEASE WAIT 30 seconds after installing the driver for Click GET DEVICES.
Please follow the below installation process in order to ensure proper operation
Unzip the driver downloaded into the driver installation library.
Open Lighting, Add New Lighting Interface, Choose ShellyLightSuite (the picture below might show a different version number than the driver actually installed.)
You’ll receive a warning that this is not a Native Elan driver, click OK
The Driver will automatically go into trial mode for 30 days. Wait for about 10 seconds and the Status will turn Green.
Fill in the activation code
If you have setup the Shelly lighting devices to use a username and password, enter it here. The driver is designed to use one username and password for all Shelly devices. If you have different values in the web interface, you must unify them and enter the credentials here.
Hit Apply, Then Click Install.
The driver will populate all supported devices found on the LAN.
Note: If devices are not found and are supported, click on Install until all your devices show up. If no devices are found, make sure your router has broadcast enabled. Give discovery up to one minute to complete.
The driver will discover all supported devices and install them with the proper capabilities.
Shelly 2.5 will be installed as a two relay devices or Curtain control with up / pause / down.
Dimmable devices are installed with dimming capabilities.
RGB, Dimmable and Tunable devices are installed to take advantage of Elan’s Multi Control. Depending on the features of the device, each Multi Control will have RGB, Dimming, Kelvin Control, and Saturation.
Shelly RGBW2 is configured as color devices are installed with two controls, one for RGB including dimming and saturation that can take advantage of Elan’s new Multi Control, and a second generic slider for white channel brightness control. RGBW devices configured as 4 white channels are installed as 4 separate dimmable devices.
Shelly Uni will be installed as two lighting devices as Relays
Shelly EM1 and EM3 will be installed under lighting Devices for Contractor Controller feedback
Shelly 1 Plus and Shelly 1 PM Plus will be added under lighting
Shelly Pro4PM will be installed as 2 Separate devices
Shelly Pro2PM will be installed as 2 separate devices
Shelly Pro1PM will be installed as 1 device
Note: The Elan g1 and SC100 (without a license) only support 24 lighting devices. Devices like the Pro4 will count as 4 devices in Elan. Take this into consideration when planning a Shelly lighting system using these controllers.
Shelly Wall Dimmer
The Shelly wall dimmer is not automatically discovered. After you install and setup the dimmer, Set the Driver in Smart Discovery mode for 60 minutes. Then trigger the wall dimmer on and off. The driver will then discover and install it. Trigger every wall dimmer within 60 minutes and the driver will install them as well.
Add an interface to control the lights from Lighting Custom Pages
Create the necessary controls, such as dimmer or button
Shelly RGBW configured as color devices are installed with two controls, one for RGB including dimming and saturation that can take advantage of Elan’s new Multi Control, and a generic slider for white channel brightness control. RGBW devices configured as 4 white channels are installed as 4 separate dimmable devices.
The Shelly DUO RGB has lighting Effects (Meteor, Gradual and Flash). To create an interface, use sliders to link to those modes. There are a total of 5 sliders, one for each mode and one for state on / off and one for Dim Effect. Effects only work when the light bulb is set to Color Mode. Warm and Cold White do not have effects.
Try discovery again. Make sure broadcasting / Multicast is enabled on the network
Driver not controlling light but it’s working from Shelly.
Make sure the IP address didn’t change. Assign DHCP reservations for the devices.
Scenes are slow to execute
If a device, most likely, a light bulb is a part of a scene and the device is offline, there will be a 3 second delay for every device that’s in the scene that’s offline. This is normal.
The lighting driver will not display the proper name of the Shelly device but instead it will show the device type and it’s MAC address. To work around this, rename the device in the driver after discovery is finished.
Gen2 Devices are not discovered. Reboot all Gen2 devices. Rediscover
To update the driver, replace the existing EDRVC file with the newly downloaded one.
Start by clicking update on the driver under the tab, then the sub drivers, then each individual driver. Example, Start with the Communication Device Driver, Click Update, Go to the Lighting Driver, Click Update.
To Install new lighting devices, go the Lighting Driver and click Discover