Mongoose wasn't dead, he was a parranda.

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Well, well, well, let’s see, today I want to talk to you about Mongolose, the firmware we’ve used since the principle to flatter the Shellys You know.

It seemed that for a few months it had stopped development, in fact We were suspected they weren’t going to continue. But he wasn’t dead, he was a parranda! These days they have come up with a new version and the truth is that it’s loaded with news, including the very expected support for the Shellys Plus 2PM, you know, the substitute for the Shelly 2.5 we used for the blinds.

Shellys and Apple HomeKit: a story of love-hate

I think everyone knows at this point that a Shelly can’t be directly connected to HomeKit. At first, when the Shells came out, it was possible and you could link a Shelly through the House app like any other device, but then they lost this support. It seems that for a matter of licences or canons, it was for a matter of pasta, but the case is that Shelly was unable to integrate with HomeKit.

As a result, several alternative firmware came out. There was a moment there was a mogollon, but I have spoken to you around here once about TasmotaYou know, now offers Matter support of my dear Home Access Architect, the HAAI’ve been talking to you a lot lately, because it’s crazy, I plan to talk to you much more soon.… but the one we’ve used many times,

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And Mongoose is true that it’s the simplest of all, that is, flashing a Shelly device, that is, installing the firmware in a Shelly is nothing, four clicks and little more, it’s very simple and anyone without any idea how a device is flashed, as it can do it in a very simple way.

So far, HAA, for example, recommended that the flare go through cable, because the cable is more stable, or if we didn’t have to go through an intermediate TasMota firmware to then put HAA. It is true that in the new version this is already supported, but still it is a little more complicated to manage, because then, once you already have it flashed with HAA, you have a scripting language in a little complicated. It’s true that your Discord support group It works like a shot, but it’s true that there are many partners who don’t even have a set-up.

do Discord, so download the application, register, enter the group and show up saying «Look, I want to do this with a Shelly,» well, it takes a little flexibility or accessibility for the more new users that they want to take a Shelly, flash it and put it directly into HomeKit to turn on or off a switch.

And that with Mongoose, because we have it in five minutes and no problem at all. The fact is that for a lot of years we were using Shelly’s 2.5 model for blinds and for double-channel switches and it worked very well, it could be flashed with Mongolose without any problems. But Shelly’s friends took off the 2.5 and put on the new device the Shelly Plus 2PM and, until this latest version, it was not supported by Mongolia.

After a lot of months without news, all of a sudden Mongoose’s guys have gone unmarked with a new version, the 2.12.1, that has a mogollon of improvements some more important than others. Of course, it also has a lot of bugs, bugfixes, all that’s fixed, now it’s supposed to work better and so on, we also have the new support for the Shelly Plus 2PM as we said before, well, they actually added support for all the Plus models, which you already know that all the new models, because there’s a lot of Plus, a lot of Pro to get into the picture, etc.

They also have the dark way for the web, which I think is a bullshit, but they’ve announced it to bulb and saucer because there’s a lot of fan in the dark way.

We also have now the support for HomeKit’s adaptive lights, I don’t know if you’ve tried this, but when you add a smart bulb in HomeKit, it does support this adaptation, it means that throughout the day you can make that light automatically change temperature, so for the day it’s a little bit more pulling yellow, for example, and at night it was a little bit colder, pulling white, or it’s changing the intensity, all that makes Apple automatically, you don’t have to do anything as long as you have a bulb that supports this method. For now the people of Mongolose also support it within the configuration, you can

To say that that switch, that light bulb, that I don’t know what, because it is directly adapting to the light of day, the truth is that I have never used it either, since I like that light bulbs are always with a warm light, be it time, and if at any time I need it, I don’t know, more light or something, because I already make it cold, but always manual.

The support for Shelly’s carbon dioxide detector has been added to HomeKit, which is actually a very interesting piece of work. Keep in mind that almost all Shelly are connected to our network by Wi-Fi, and that there are people who don’t like it, there are people who prefer zigbee devices or prefer threat devices. I already tell you that everything that can have threat, which is supposed to be the new optimized protocol and so on, because I will have it, but today threat is not yet very mature, in fact there are times that you have several networks threaten from several different devices, with several different manufacturers that each has created their network, so it still remains for you.

There a little bit to grow up. And well, the Wi-Fi is true that if you have a good router, as in my case I have the Eero that are Mesh and well, you can imagine that I have a few more devices connected to the Wi-Fi, and I do well, it’s going to be a shot to me, but it’s true that there are people who say that the Wi-Fi devices for connecting to the Wi-Fi are already going to consume a little more, so if they’re going to batteries, because you can run out of batteries before the zigbee or threaten devices, and it’s not true that’s not that I’m going to do that, but it’s not really, it’s not like, it’s not really, it’s not like, it’s not like, it’s not like, it’s not like, it’s not like, it’s not like,

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And that happens with the support, that is, with the eastern carbon dioxide detector, which is Wi-Fi, then there are people who don’t want a detector of this kind to be Wi-Fi, well, the case is that the detector is going to work the same, that is, if you have smoke at home, it’s going to pitate like a smoke detector of all life, that if you’re burning the house, the router, I know, and you’re running out of Wi-Fi, the cacharro is going to pit’s just like, that I’m not really, that it’s just, that it’s just, that it’s just, that it’s just, that it’s just, that it’s just, that it’s just, that it’s just, that it’s just, that it’s just, that it’s, that it’s just, that it’s, that it’s, that it’s just, that it’s, that it’s, that it’s, that it’s just, that it’s, that it’s just, that it’s, that it’s, that it’s, that, that it’s, that it’s, that it’s, that it’s, that,

carbon and so on, because it’s connected by ZigBee, but that makes you either need a universal zigbee 3.0 like the Sonoff we put on Home Assistant, or you have your own Aqara Bridge, I don’t know, I think the Shelly takes away complexity because you directly connect it to the Wi-Fi.

Well, all this was because the people of Mongolose have added the support of that carbon dioxide detector, which tells you the microns they have in the air of carbon dioxide and so on, has added it to HomeKit.

And then some minor, more or less silly things, like one that has ever happened to me, that by writing the Wi-Fi password when you were setting up the Shelly, I directly clicked on to apply and if you had put it wrong, because it was going to be taken for granted, you had to reset it, get back in the local IP and stuff like that. And now he’s asking for a confirmation, that of the truth is that it’s a great advance, a great advance.

But well, you see a lot of interesting news that makes Mongoose again in the candlestick as one of the most interesting options for flashing a Selly.

I’m going to continue to recommend to everyone that I don’t have a lot of idea, that I don’t want to mess up a lot and that, directly, because that, I want to flatter the device and just get used to it.