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Smart Home Automation | Te Awamutu

Smart Homes.
Smart Energy.
Smart Savings.

Control lighting, hot water, garage doors, gates, appliances and power usage from anywhere. Shelly smart devices allow you to automate your home, reduce wasted energy and gain complete visibility over how your home uses electricity.

⚡ Energy Monitoring 🏠 Smart Lighting 🔥 Hot Water Control 🚪 Garage Doors 📱 App Control
Shelly Smart Devices
What is Shelly?

Shelly Smart Devices can unlock a huge amount of control.

Shelly smart devices are compact smart relays and energy monitoring modules. In simple terms, they can be installed behind existing switches, near selected appliances, or in your switchboard to make normal electrical circuits smarter.

Shelly Plus 1 Gen3 smart relay for lighting and appliance control

Start small

You can begin with just one or two lights, a garage door, a gate, or a single appliance. You do not need to automate the whole house at once.

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Shelly Dimmer Gen3 for smart lighting scenes and schedules

Control from your phone

The Shelly app gives you remote control, schedules, scenes, timers and monitoring without needing a complicated full-house system.

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Shelly app dashboard showing smart relay control and home automation

Automate everyday life

Set lights, gates, appliances and alerts to work around your normal routine. Add scenes, schedules and smart responses.

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Smart Home Possibilities

What Could You Automate In Your Home?

Most homeowners are surprised by how many everyday electrical devices can be made smarter with Shelly relays. Start with a single project or automate multiple areas of your home over time. The beauty of Shelly is that you can start small and expand whenever you’re ready.

🏠 Smart Lighting

Add Shelly smart devices behing light switches and control lights remotely, create schedules, set scenes and automate indoor or outdoor lighting. Turn lights on before you arrive home or create security lighting schedules while you’re away.

🚪 Garage Doors

Open and close your garage door remotely, check if it has been left open and receive notifications if the door opens unexpectedly.

🚘 Automatic Gates

Add smart control to existing automatic gates. Open or close your gate from your phone and improve convenience and security.

🔥 Hot Water Cylinders

Add a Shelly smart devices such as the Power Pro meter or a Smart relay behind your hot water switch and monitor hot water energy usage and delay heating cycles during expensive peak power periods to potentially reduce running costs.

❄️ Heat Pumps

Monitor heat pump power consumption and understand exactly how much it costs to heat or cool your home throughout the year.

⚡ Energy Monitoring

See live household power usage, monitor selected circuits and identify where your electricity is being used so you can make smarter decisions.

Live power monitoring

See what your home is using in real time.

By adding a Shelly Pro EM or Shelly Pro 3EM meter to your switchboard, you can see live power usage and build a history of how your home uses electricity. This gives you real data instead of guessing where the power bill is going.

  • View live power usage from your phone or computer.
  • Track historical energy use and spot high-consumption periods.
  • Monitor selected circuits such as hot water, heat pumps or high-use appliances.
  • Use the information to make smarter decisions around peak usage and running costs.
Shelly EM Power Meter
Shelly Pro 3EM switchboard energy meter for live power monitoring and hot water control Hover for peak power saving example
Practical examples

Real smart home ideas that actually make sense.

Most people do not realise what can be done with shelly Smart devices. These are practical examples of how Shelly smart devices can be used around a home, garage, workshop or small business.

Smart garage door automation using Shelly relay and wireless door sensor

Smart garage door control

Add a Shelly relay to your garage door opener so you can remotely open or close the door from your phone. Add a wireless door sensor and you can also see whether the door is open, closed or partly open.

Shelly wireless door sensor showing garage door open and closed status

Door alerts when you are asleep or away

Create scenes such as: if the garage door opens between 10pm and 5am, send an alarm notification to your phone. When travelling, you could set a 24-hour alert so you know immediately if the door opens.

Smart appliance monitoring using Shelly relay for power usage and remote switching

Monitor selected appliances

A Shelly relay can be installed near certain appliances to monitor power usage and allow remote switching. This is useful for understanding what an appliance costs to run, or turning it off when it is not needed.

Smart home automation control for lights, gates, appliances and garage doors

Make non-smart devices smart

Auto gates, garage doors, selected lights, security equipment and other suitable circuits can often be made smarter with the right relay and setup. You keep the equipment you already have but add modern control.

Shelly Pro 50 smart relay for professional switchboard automation
Hot water control

Stop your hot water running at the worst time of day.

One powerful use is monitoring your hot water circuit and controlling when it runs. By using a spare CT on an energy meter and a suitable relay, your hot water cylinder can be managed so it avoids peak power usage periods where possible.

  • Monitor how much power your hot water circuit uses.
  • Control hot water heating around peak usage hours.
  • Use real energy data to understand where savings may be possible.
  • Link this setup with your wider smart home or energy-saving strategy.
Frequently Asked Questions

Smart Home & Shelly FAQs

What is a Shelly relay?

A Shelly relay is a compact smart device that can be installed behind suitable switches or electrical circuits to provide automation, remote control and monitoring.

Can Shelly be installed in an existing home?

Yes. Many Shelly devices can be added to existing homes without major renovations, making them a popular upgrade option.

Can Shelly help reduce power bills?

By monitoring energy usage and controlling selected loads such as hot water systems, Shelly can help identify and reduce unnecessary energy consumption.

Can I control Shelly from my phone?

Yes. The free Shelly app allows you to control devices remotely, create schedules, build scenes and monitor energy usage.

Do I need Wi-Fi?

Most Shelly devices use Wi-Fi for remote access and automation features, allowing control from anywhere with an internet connection.

Can CO Electrical install and configure Shelly devices?

Absolutely. We can supply, install, configure and help you get the most out of your Shelly smart home system.

Smart lighting

Start with one or two lights and build from there.

A Shelly relay can be installed behind selected existing light switches to make that lighting circuit smart. You can still use the wall switch normally, while also adding phone control, scheduling and automation scenes.

Remote control

Turn selected lights on or off from your phone, whether you are home, at work or away.

Lighting control

Time scheduling

Set lights to turn on in the evening, turn off overnight, or run on a schedule while you are away.

Set and forget

Scenes and automation

Create scenes for security, convenience, night lighting, outdoor lighting, garages or workshops.

The sky is the limit
Heat pump monitoring

Find out what your heat pump is actually costing to run.

If your heat pump does not have built-in energy monitoring, a smart monitoring device can help show how much power it is using. This can be useful for understanding running costs, comparing heating habits, and spotting unusual power use.

  • Monitor heat pump power usage over time.
  • Compare usage through different seasons.
  • See the effect of temperature settings and run times.
  • Build smarter habits around comfort and efficiency.
Shelly smart relay used for heat pump power monitoring and smart electrical control
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Want to make one part of your home smart?

You do not need to start with a full smart home system. Start with a garage door, a couple of lights, hot water control, appliance monitoring or switchboard energy monitoring — then build from there.