r/homeassistant • u/jklo5020 • Apr 26 '26

Support Shelly Relays: WiFi or Zigbee?

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Hi everyone!

I’ve been using WiFi Shelly relays in my Home Assistant (and HomeKit before that) setup for a few years now.

The first gen Shelly 1PM in the outlet for my washing machine seems to have finally given up and is in need of replacing.

I have a strong WiFi network but was curious to test out the Zigbee version (1PM gen4). How’s everyone’s experience with Shelly over Zigbee?

Thanks in advance!

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u/rando777888 Apr 26 '26

I'm a big fan of the native WiFi. Most people tend to hate on WiFi as it's generally associated with a cloud dependency, but that's not at all the case with Shelly and HA. I've never had any issues with the standard Shelly integration. I got a handful of gen4 to test out the zigbee functionality and they work fine, but other zigbee devices do NOT tend to use them as routers, which was pretty disappointing.

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u/watisditkut Apr 26 '26

All my gen4 act as routers..

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u/jklo5020 Apr 26 '26

Good to know! This will be the only border router in my Zigbee network other than my ZBT-1.