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You don’t need to ground your Shelly if the circuit is otherwise properly grounded. The Shelly will fail open if something internal shorts.

Per the rest of the discussion re: hot wire loops to switches with no neutral or ground, just put the Shelly into the upstream junction box. (Wherever the switch wire branches from the circuit. Usually that’s where the light is.)

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Would be real nice if the blackadder list somehow flagged devices that are no longer available.

Install the nginx proxy manager add-on, set up let’s encrypt for certificates and DuckDNS for name resolution, forward a port from your router. No need for homekit or a full vpn.

Depends on your specific VPN, but look for a feature or setting called “split tunnel.” It should create a separate non-vpn route for the local network.

Usually client-side setting, but not always if the tunnel is built on connection.

How are you getting your Hue bulbs into pairing mode? My new ConbeeII stick doesn’t see them. I tried connecting to them with the Bluetooth app and then doing a factory reset, no luck.

My initial Conbee and two hue lights arrived today, and between the pain in the ass that I apparently need a hue hub or something to put the lights in pairing mode, plus this makes me think it’s not going to solve any of my connectivity problems.

Just in time for my Wi-Fi devices to start dropping again for no reason.

My plan is to stick with Hue bulbs as much as possible. More expensive, but seem to be the most solid hardware.

Each device is a repeater, right? So I should try to make every device’s potential signal overlaps multiple others?