Getting started
What the app is called and what it does
Shelly has had three apps with confusingly similar names. First things first - make sure you have the right one.
The app is called Shelly Smart Control. That's the one you want.
The name is the single most common source of confusion with Shelly, so it's worth getting out of the way first:
| Name | What it is |
|---|---|
| Shelly Smart Control | The current app. Publisher: Shelly Europe EOOD. |
| Shelly Cloud | The old app. Replaced by Smart Control. Don't use it. |
| Shelly Control | The web version, at control.shelly.cloud. Same account as the app. |
| "Shelly Smart Home" | Doesn't exist as an app. The name turns up in competitions and in everyday talk. |
If you're searching the App Store or Google Play, look for the publisher Shelly Europe EOOD. On Google Play the package name is cloud.shelly.smartcontrol.
The app is free. There's a paid add-on, Premium, but everything essential works without it. See Premium.
What the app does
Shelly Smart Control is the remote control and configuration tool for your Shelly devices. Through it you can:
- add new devices to your network
- switch them on and off and control them, at home or remotely
- organise them into rooms and groups
- build scenes that run things automatically
- read off consumption and cost
- update firmware
- share devices with others in the household
The four views
The app has four main views. Almost everything in this handbook starts from one of them.
| View | What you do there |
|---|---|
| Dashboard | Overview. Widgets you pick yourself, total consumption, number of devices online. |
| My Home | The core. Your devices, rooms, groups, scenes and alarms. |
| Consumption | Energy. What's drawing power, how much, and what it costs. |
| Settings | Account, app, Alexa, electricity price and Premium. |
Cloud or local
Shelly devices work in two ways, and the difference decides what happens when the internet goes down:
- With the cloud. The device connects to Shelly Cloud. You can reach it wherever you are. This is the default, and it's what the app is built on.
- Locally. The device can be controlled directly on your own network, through its built-in web interface or a home automation system, without Shelly's cloud. In that case the app's remote control doesn't work.
You can turn the cloud off per device. If you do, the device effectively disappears from the app - that's a deliberate choice for anyone who wants to run everything locally, not something you do by accident.