Lutron Pico Remote

Lutron Pico Switches. Lots of options, you can mount them to look like wired switches, they are programmable with HomeBridge so they appear as generic buttons in HomeKit. You will need a Caseta Smart Bridge Pro. I use them to control my lifx lights/ toggle various AV services in my house.

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Lutron pico remotes can be surface mounted to look like a regular switch (I’ve put one next to a single in-wall switch and covered both with a duplex wall plate and it looks totally natural) and they’re easiest to use with lutron smart plugs but can also be used as triggers in HomeKit via Homebridge I believe.

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I'd like to try out Homebridge to have a look at the way it handles Caseta pico remotes. It gives you the ability to specify a scene/action for each of the five buttons on the remote. It looks like this: https://b2c-contenthub.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Set-up-Hue-Dimmer-Switch-in-HomeKit-buttons.jpeg?quality=50&strip=all what happens when I shut Homebridge down? Either because I decide not to use it or to give it a permanent home on a dedicated computer? The devices will go unavailable in HomeKit until you remove the bridge from your Home. Will my Smartbridge and picos simply revert to …

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Just wanted to say thank you- The plugin did in fact work with my Standard Lutron Smart bridge-- however I couldn't find any of the picos until I gave up and checked again this morning. But all is working well now. This is fantastic!

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The Lutron pico integration is key. Being able to program the buttons to do whatever I want for the cost and reliability of these buttons has been huge.

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You ca use the Lutron pico remotes for non Lutron devices by using the plugin. https://www.npmjs.com/package/homebridge-lutron-caseta-leap

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What plug-in are you using for your Caseta pico remotes? I’m using a pro bridge with the old smockle plugins but it is not supported anymore. It works flawlessly up to now, but 2 press and long presses aren’t working and it’s a feature that would add tremendous value to the pico remotes.

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Just did this myself. Found a Pro hub on eBay (with a dimmer switch and a Pico remote), all brand new, for only $60 (which is the price of a dimmer switch alone). Used the Homebridge plugin you linked and it’s been awesome. 10/10 would recommend, but definitely search eBay for a deal, cause the pro hub is wayyy too expensive at retail.

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Based on some great work in the pylutron-caseta project, I have added Pico remote support to the homebridge-lutron-caseta-leap plugin! I've been using it "in production" (read: my house) for a couple of days and it seems to be working great. This was a widely-requested feature back when I first announced the plugin, so hopefully it's useful. I'm looking for a few more beta testers before I fully release it, and am quite interested in expanding support and validating that it works with Pro bridges too (and maybe even RA2/RA3).

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Yes, you can control anything in HomeKit with a Pico Remote using this plugin, assuming you already have the (non-Pro) Caseta bridge!

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I am not encountering any latency between button presses and device response. I have two Picos setup using this plugin to trigger a combination of HomeKit scenes and individual devices. Some are Hue bulbs using Hue’s native HomeKit functionality, and others are various Z-Wave and Zigbee outlets connected via a Hubitat C7 hub which is connected to HomeKit via Homebridge. I have one OG HomePod, two HomePods mini, one Apple TV 4K second gen. The ATV has HomeKit hub disabled and one of the minis usually gets that role. The network is a three node eero Pro mesh with wired devices on the network …

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You can always use a Lutron Pico to enable/disable along with the Lutron Caseta Leap plugin if you already have a Lutron Bridge.

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I use dummy like others have said I also use a plugin that exposes my lutron pico remotes to HK (invaluable) and a plugin that brings my Logitech harmony remote for our home theater into HK it’s an excellent platform and one I’m grateful to have help make my smarthome function well for anyone who lives or visits our house

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Yep! homebridge-pico uses the LIP protocol, which is deprecated and requires the Pro bridge, whereas mine uses LEAP, which is Lutron's preferred technology now. rnilssoncx's plugin is definitely a bit more mature, though. FWIW, I get a bit worried when you say direct connect power to the light and cover the switch’s junction box with a Pico mount This is actually very likely not compliant with the electrical code where you live. Circuits are required to have service disconnects so that you can make the receptacle safe when, e.g. changing bulbs. At the very least, I would add a big scary label …

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I have this issue too, mainly with the Lutron LEAP plugin and Pico support. I’ve slowly just stopped trying to figure it out because it blows away my button automation.

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