Hey everyone, excited to join the community, quick question… I am planning on having about 15 dimmable light switches installed. Would you guys recommend going with a bridge option something like
Lutron Caseta P-BDG-PKG2W-A
or wifi option like this Moes lights
My fear is adding a lot of wifi devices might not make things as reliable. How would you guys do it?
I’d recommend something supported by Home Assistant 
Personally not WiFi, though whether that’s Lutron, Z-Wave, or something else is partly personal preference and partly what you can buy in your part of the world.
Well they both use wifi, one of them just first uses a bridge. The others connect directly to home assistant. They dont use zwave i believe. Any particular switches you would recommend?
I am a newbie to Home Assistant, but not to wireless switches. So, this is my experience.
I started with some Sonoff-Basic switches crammed into my single-gang light switch boxes. They work and I can control them over MQTT messaging. Originally in Node-Red and later in Home-Assistant.
I added a couple of Sonoff switches because I could install them without any electrical code violations, such as over-stuffing the outlet box. (Sonoff is making some new WiFi switches destined for the US market). Next, I bought some Z-Wave switches. (The Z-Wave switches are why I started getting into Home Assistant. HA and an inexpensive Z-Stick becomes my Z-Wave Hub). On a whim I also bought a couple of Ikea Tradfri lights. The Tradfri lights operate over Zigbee and are by far, the most unreliable of all of my wireless devices.
(Side note, I had planned to just use Home Assistant as my Z-Wave Hub and do all my control and user-interface through Node-Red. But Home Assistant has become an intoxicating challenge to keep learning more).
I am leaning toward all Z-Wave in the future. Z-Wave just works in Home Assistant, and as long as all Z-Wave switches are within 20 ft or so of another Z-Wave device, they talk to each other in a mesh network. No repeater needed.
An advantage of Z-Wave is they operate in the 908MHz frequency band. Using the lower frequency of 908MHz over WiFi at 2.4GHz increases it’s range slightly. Best of all, almost everything “wireless” uses 2.4GHz. This includes WiFi and Bluetooth. You would be surprised how much “stuff” there is on 2.4GHz that is potential interference with WiFi.
I know nothing about the Lutron stuff, but I really avoid using any Home Automation devices where they “phone home” in order to work.
Hope this helps…
Thank you so much for such detailed reply. Do you have any light switches that you would recommend for zwave?
Sorry for the delay- we had to go to a funeral.
I have two inovelli switched- one dimmer and one switch. they have both worked flawlessly. I have also a Jasco (GE) switch that I think I bricked.
I will be buying more Inovelli switches shortly.
I highly recommend Lutron Caseta switches mainly for the ease of installation. The switches are much smaller and easier to fit in an electrical box, and they don’t require neutral wires and you don’t have to worry about identifying load and lead wires. Lutrons requires a hub but I haven’t had any issues with lag, range or reliability. Initial setup with HA is tough (you have to run a Python script to generate a token), but after that, the lights just show up on your dashboard. Like others said, it relies on your internet connection but I haven’t had any issues.
To save money on expensive Lutron switches, I use the Pico remote to act as the add-on switch in a 3-way switch setup. That brings the cost down to a reasonable price.
I used Leviton Decora Z-Wave Plus switches at my friend’s newly built house and it was a pain to get the switch and the wires to fit. Before I was in the mindset of local processing only, consolidate and use Z-Wave where possible, but now I push people to use Lutron. Not sure if Lutron is readily available outside the U.S. though.
I think i am gonna go with Inovelli, thanks for recommendation. Like that it looks like a normal switch. Can you program scenes to it through HA like it shows in a demo? Any recommendations for motion detectors 
I am the wrong one to ask. I am just barely understanding the concept of groups and groups of groups.
But, if HomeAssistant can create a scene and control Z-Wave stuff pursuant to that scene, then I don’t see why not.
How are the Inovelli switches for you?
I have the Aeotec Zwave multi-sensor gen 6 and like it, gives motion/luminance/temp/humidity/vibration/UV.
I just bought two more Inovelli switches and wired one into a three-way circuit. The hardest part was analyzing the original circuit. I have a four-way circuit that I plan to attack next.
Do you like them? How well do they work in HASS?