Lutron Caseta L-BDGPRO2-WH - SmartBridge Pro Programmed Via Lutron App, White

If your using multiple lighting within your home or if your using a home automation control system this Bridge is needed. its very fast and responsive and will keep all your lighting and controls insync

This works great, and I'm happy with Lutron products as a whole. I had bought the non pro version of their bridge with a wall switch and it worked great for everything. The one issue I had was in Home Assistant and it's probably not what you think. Home Assistant has stepped up its game and now is *very* easy to implement the non pro version, which works great. The only problem is you can't use the Pico remotes outside of the Lutron ecosystem without the Pro version. They don't show and aren't usable to trigger other things in Home Assistant. It's a lot of money to just get access to a bunch of tiny remotes. As far as I can tell the differences in the pro and non pro versions are solely software/support related. I gotta say though, being able to program every button for other is kind of cool though. I have one set up at my desk for lights and with the favorite button to toggle on and off my work monitors which are on a different brand smart plug. Every button has triggers for "Pressed" and "Released" and with some creative programming in home assistant out there you can do multiple button presses. It does open up quite a few possibilities. I'm glad i bought it, but had I known before I wouldn't have gotten the bundled non-pro version. I would've just gotten this from the get go.

I have a Control4 home automation system and wanted to control my lutron Serena shades. I also have a Josh.ai home voice control system.The lutron product line is a mess, and it’s hard to tell which shades work with which bridge and control systems. Lutron, seriously. Get your act together.This pro bridge worked great with my Control4 and Josh.ai systems. My integrator added it to Control4. However I was impressed that Josh found and configured the lutron bridge automatically.The lutron app is just ok/meh, but most of the time the shades are on an automatic schedule or I use Control4/josh to control them.Overall I’m very pleased with this item.

This is the pro version you want for Home Assistant. It has telnet for additional home automation control. I couldn't find it locally at the usual getting places.Works great.

PROS:Fairly easy to installInterface is simpleCONS:Interface is simple (Yes I repeated that in the PROS) What I mean is that even though is seems that you can do IFTTT, there is no version of the Pro App that I found which seems to allow for that to be done. What I ended up doing was integrating this through the partnership that exists between Lutron and Samsung to use the SmartThings app and hub which I already had. Lutron did not really make it easy for me, and perhaps I just missed something, to pair the two up, but I had to do the pairing though SmartThings and then the Lutron devices showed up in the Smart Things app.The Lutron Pro hub is quite pricey in my opinion and frankly anyone getting into doing a smart home for the first time should research the products out there and the price points to make a smart decision about what manufacturer they want to go with because it seems that there are many out there and everyone seems to have their own smart hubs but not everyone plays well with each other.

This seems to talk to all my blinds just fine. I removed one star as this is just another device that has to have LED's lighting it up for no reason at all. I do not need all the rooms in my house lit up at night with too bright LED's.

I live in an older home (built in 1938) and didn't know if I could add any "smart home" features. A friend recommended this Lutron Caseta product line and our electrician agreed. It was easy to set up, and I only had to replace two outlets, which I was able to do myself. Now we have lights throughout the house that I can easily program to switch on and off, and if we're coming home late we can turn the outside lights on remotely. It also retains the programming even if the power goes down.

I have several Lutron Caseta light switches in my house. I formerly controlled them with a Wink hub but when they recently went to a subscription service it was time find something else. This hub is easy to install and set up.Some people have mentioned that you have to plug it in directly to the router. That was not an option for me. Last year I purchased this Ethernet splitter: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001EVGIYG/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o08_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1. I have the hub plugged into the splitter and it works fine.