Shelly Launches Four Smart Home and Professional Automation Products

You know the moment when you tape a motion sensor to a doorframe, wire a display into the wall box, and then spend three hours debugging the Modbus bridge because your relay controller only speaks RS-485 while your fancy new dashboard refuses to acknowledge anything that isn't a cloud-connected Shelly device? Shelly Group clearly knows it too — and their latest four-product drop looks engineered to close exactly those kinds of integration gaps.

The rollout spans the full stack: a wall-mounted control panel, a dual-radio motion sensor, a line of smart circuit breakers for the panel-minded among us, and an RS-485 expansion module that signals Shelly is serious about the professional automation market. Each piece is designed to plug into the existing Shelly ecosystem while playing nice with third-party platforms, which is the part that actually matters if your home isn't a single-vendor walled garden.

Wall Display X1i: Central Panel With Real Sensors

The Shelly Wall Display X1i is a 4-inch colour panel built for standard European flush-mount wall boxes — the same ones your light switches already live in. It runs a quad-core processor for what Shelly calls "instant response," and packs a built-in relay for direct control of lighting or appliances on the same circuit. That alone is a nice upgrade from panels that need a separate module to toggle a single bulb.

What makes it interesting for automation builders is the sensor array: proximity, luminosity (lux), and gesture detection are all on board. That means you can trigger scenes not just by tapping the screen, but by waving your hand in front of it or having the display wake up when someone approaches — all without burning a Zigbee slot or deploying another motion sensor. Energy consumption monitoring is baked in, so you get real-time power draw data on whatever's downstream of the relay. For a control surface that replaces a light switch, that's a lot of local logic packed into one flush box.

BLU Motion ZB: Dual-Radio Sensor With a Five-Year Battery

The Shelly BLU Motion ZB is the sensor play. It combines Zigbee and Bluetooth in a single compact housing, which means it can talk to both the Shelly ecosystem natively and any Zigbee coordinator you're already running — Home Assistant, Hubitat, or otherwise. The PIR sensor has adjustable sensitivity, and there's an integrated lux meter so your automations can gate on actual ambient light conditions rather than arbitrary time-of-day schedules.

Power comes from a CR2477 cell rated for up to five years, and installation is adhesive-pad-only — no tools, no brackets, no excuses. For offices, warehouses, or that one dark hallway where your current sensor keeps dropping off the Zigbee mesh, the dual-radio approach is the real selling point. You're not choosing between Shelly-native BLE and third-party Zigbee; you get both, and the sensor decides based on what's listening.

PRO CB and Modbus: The Professional Stack

Now for the part that tells you Shelly is thinking beyond living rooms. The Shelly PRO CB range is a line of smart circuit breakers — one to four poles, 10A to 63A rated currents — that combine overcurrent protection with remote switching and real-time monitoring. Single- and double-pole models handle single-phase installs; three- and four-pole versions cover three-phase systems. This is distribution-board-level hardware, not a plug-in accessory, and it means integrators can now wire Shelly monitoring directly into the panel rather than relying on external CT clamps and guesswork.

The Shelly PRO Modbus Add-on RS485 expansion module rounds out the pro offering. If you've ever tried to bridge a Shelly device into a BMS or industrial controller that only speaks Modbus RTU, you know the frustration: the protocol is everywhere in professional automation, but consumer-grade smart home gear rarely exposes it. This add-on is Shelly's answer — a bolt-on module that gives PRO-series devices a native RS-485 port for Modbus communication. It won't make your Wall Display suddenly talk to a Siemens PLC overnight, but it does mean Shelly is explicitly acknowledging the protocol layer that installers and integrators actually need.

Together, these four products sketch out a strategy: Shelly wants to own the wall, the sensor layer, the breaker panel, and the industrial bridge. Whether they can hold all four without spreading the firmware team too thin is the question worth watching — but for anyone building mixed-protocol automations today, the BLU Motion ZB and the RS-485 add-on are the pieces to put on your test bench first.