Smart plugs on stream

No cloud, no account

Most smart home integrations route a button press through a manufacturer’s server on another continent. This one talks to the device on your own network.

• The command goes straight to the plug by its address in the home network.
• Nothing to register and nothing to stay logged in to; it works with the internet down.
• The delay is what a local network gives you, not what a round trip across the world does.

Which plugs work

The generation is worked out automatically during the search: the device answers a status request without a password and says what it is.

• First generation — Shelly Plug S, Shelly 1, Shelly 2.5 and their relatives.
• Second and third — Shelly Plus Plug S, Plug S Gen3, Plus 1.
• A plug found by the “search for plugs” button arrives already knowing its own generation; nothing to pick from a list.

This module knows nothing about money

It is deliberately narrow: it switches a plug and reports whether it worked. The rule “a donation turns on the lamp” lives in Scenarios.

• Switch on for a set number of seconds and the plug goes back by itself.
• The trigger — a reward, a donation, a panel button — is chosen in Scenarios, not here.
• That split is what lets the same plug serve several different rules without any of them knowing about the others.

What it is made of

Each part is a separate module: you install only the ones you need, and any of them can be removed without breaking the rest.

Getting started

1. Put the Shelly plug on the same network as your computer.
2. Press “search for plugs” in Devices → Shelly, or add one by its address.
3. Check it switches from the module page.
4. Bind it to a reward or a scenario.

Only plug in things that are safe to switch on remotely while you are not looking at them. The app will do exactly what a viewer paid for, including at four in the morning.

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