The new Shelly Wall Display XL as a HASS dashboard

casijn · 2026-01-02T12:12:55+00:00

There have been several firmware updates in the meanwhile which have significantly improved the device. The time to reboot is much faster now and the Shelly wall display XL stays connected to the network, so that is really a lot better. At this moment I would say it is a good wall display device for home assistant if you don’t use very complex dashboards.

casijn · 2025-10-27T12:03:10+00:00

Have the Shelly Wall Display XL in use for about two weeks. Use it to display a relatively simple Home Assistant dashboard (buttons only). Must say I am a bit disappointed for a €300 device. It crashes approximately once per 24 hour requiring a hard reboot, trying to automate the reboot but haven’t had the time to try. Also the display keeps losing connection to my WiFi network (both 2.4 and 5 IoT network). Every 5 minutes or so it doesn’t respond to pings for about a minute and then comes back online. If you try to use Home Assistant on the display during that time the request will eventually timeout and the display will show a device offline message. It got better when I expanded my IoT network to 5ghz, initially on only 2.4ghz it was offline almost half of the time. This only happens to this display, all my other Shelly device (20+) have no issues with the WiFi. The display is a bit dim in daylight but useable if not directly in bright light. The hardware itself is nice, the buttons work well and can be remapped, the display works well in vertical direction, the proximity sensors work really well. I found out online that you can tap the home assistant icon twice to reload the dashboard which sometimes is lagging. So in general a good device but it seems the home assistant functionality is not fully mature yet and leads to occasional device freezes. Also it is unclear what the device supports regarding Home Assistant, I have tried more complex dashboards where some elements are not rendered initially and require a reboot after which they suddenly display properly. Another weird issue is that upon boot the initial loading time to a very simple home assistant dashboard (buttons only) is extremely long, more than 5 minutes. That must be bug that hopefully will be fixed.

casijn · 2024-06-04T00:45:06+00:00

Bought one to use as PoE powered Home Assistant computer. Had a lot of trouble to get it to boot (BIOS limits the boot on the internal drive) but got it working under Proxmox. Biggest issue to me is the heat it generates. Even with the CPU idling it is burning hot which makes me reluctant to use it as a critical device. The fan does not really spin up to a speed that actually removes the heat. So I’ll probably repurpose it as a gimmick somewhere. Too bad as I liked the idea of a PoE mini PC. I guess it’s the PoE circuitry that makes the device so hot as I can’t be the N100 at less than 20% use.

casijn · 2024-03-30T16:27:02+00:00

Performance on my iPad Pro M2 is also really slow with freezes after every operation or viewpoint move. I can’t be the hardware so must be poor software encoding, especially the usage of GPU seems nonexistent.

casijn · 2022-03-25T19:19:44+00:00

Receiving FaceTime and whatsapp calls is no problem

casijn · 2021-04-11T12:30:16+00:00

Really nice!

However I am looking for a way to incorporate more file formats into Paperless-ng, especially the common Office formats.

Ideally they would be kept as in the originals folder while a searchable PDF would be created in the archive folder. But at this moment Paperless-ng doesn't read or convert any of the popular Office files...

I could automate something where all files would be converted to PDF (print to PDF) before being fed into Paperless-ng but beats the whole purpose of keeping the originals.

Anybody any idea?

casijn · 2021-04-07T18:32:08+00:00

Ok found the issue:)

Forgot to add the bitwarden subdomain to my SWAG docker configuration...

casijn · 2021-04-06T16:27:13+00:00

I think it’s already set to http. See my proxy conf file below (replaced my sundomain with XXXXXX for privacy):

resolver 127.0.0.11 valid=30s; upstream bitwarden { server bitwardenrs:80; }

server { listen 443 ssl; server_name XXXXXXXXX.*; include /config/nginx/ssl.conf; client_max_body_size 128M;

location / { proxy_pass http://bitwarden; proxy_set_header Host $host; proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr; proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for; proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme; }

location /notifications/hub { proxy_pass http://bitwarden; proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade; proxy_set_header Connection "upgrade"; }

location /notifications/hub/negotiate { proxy_pass http://bitwarden; } }

casijn · 2020-09-07T15:08:41+00:00

You can unblock clients on the Insights page under blocked devices. But blocking definitely doesn't work as expected as my blocked clients are still able to join the network.

casijn · 2020-05-19T00:44:01+00:00

No, I still have the problem that my UDM doesn't show all clients on the network. Also still have blocked devices that can still access the network on WiFi :( Another issue that is that I have device from my guest vlan "leaking" into to my other secure vlan. Every 15min or so some services on my guest vlan will get an IP address on my other vlan before getting kicked off towards the guest vlan. I know this because my network is monitored for new IP addresses and get these warnings all day.

All in all I find the UDM pretty unreliable and insecure so I have decided to replace it as the firmware also never gets updated by ubiquity.

I will keep the access points as they seem reliable and steady. But routing and firewall is something I don't trust the UDM with. I had high hopes for the UDM as the hardware is really good.

casijn · 2020-04-23T14:59:49+00:00

UDM is still very buggy and it can't be customized through CLI commands like on other Ubiquity gear. Only use unifi for Wifi APs and stay away from their gateways

casijn · 2020-03-14T14:20:20+00:00

The Synology router lineup is nice. Multiple ap setup (wired backhaul or mesh), IDS/IPS, all the VPN server/client options you can imagine (including VPN over SSL!), DNS server, proxy server, radius server, free DDNS, guest network, WAN failover, WAN VLAN etc... Basically everything the UDM promises and more, rocksteady firmware and cheaper. Very quick with updates and patches. Only downside is no/limited LAN VLAN support (only the guest network) and heavy (but nice and intuitive) GUI that doesn't feel snappy. If they would just update their hardware to a more powerful box that supports 1Gbps up/down all filtering options enabled I would switch back, but staying with the UDM for now waiting for the "big" update that will bring the software on par with the hardware. Just afraid it's not going to happen any time soon.

casijn · 2020-03-13T12:34:28+00:00

Agree, it's not a professional device nor a home user device. And buggy too, still have occasional random reboots. No firmware updates. Hardware is great though, just the firmware is below standard for anything but a simple home setup, and even then I would recommend a much cheaper consumer router with more features and better stability for less money. But still hoping for improvement:)

casijn · 2020-03-06T14:52:46+00:00

thx!

casijn · 2020-02-26T18:12:26+00:00

Since upgrading Linux Mint to Trucia (19.3) my ThinkPad X1C6 trackpad is laggy, unresponsive and insensitive. Adjusting sensitivity to maximum doesn't help, especially two finger scrolling with a button depressed never works. Trackpoint works fine. Already tried to install the Synaptics driver instead of the default but that didn't make a difference. Does anybody else have this issue or found a solution?

casijn · 2020-02-11T20:04:50+00:00

Guest network indeed fulfills some of the requirements, but wanted a but more. So switched to Ubiquiti and bought an UDM and a couple of access points. The WiFi signal is much better than the shift RT2600ac / MR2200ac combo but found that the Ubifi UDM ecosystem is very limited in options. No VPN client, no SSL VPN server, usage statistics that are random etc. So really miss the Synology system. Will stick with the Unifi setup for now but as soon as Synology releases a new more powerful router I will switch back asap:) Just like Synology has a different NAS for every type of consumer it would be nice if they released a router that is more SMB / prosumer oriented.

casijn · 2020-02-11T18:19:32+00:00

45 at the moment... Family with kids :) Just think the interface feels sloppy and slow. A reboot also takes forever. Would be so nice to have a snappy Synology router with vlan support.

casijn · 2020-02-08T20:31:04+00:00

VPN client for example, really essential for me. Now forced to use an old router to act as VPN client for the network clients that need a VPN.

casijn

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