Lutron Caseta Dimmers misbehaving

Configuration
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I have a number of Lutron Caseta dimmers in my setup, and the newish Caesta compenent is working nicely so far. Well, mostly.

I have five in-wall switches and four in-wall dimmers (and a smattering of Pico remote controls). The switches are fine, and two of the four dimmers operate correctly too, at least so far.

Two of the dimmers, however, insist on remaining in the “on” state in HA even when the light is off. If I manually hit the switch in HA, it will switch to the “off” state briefly, then five seconds later it will move back into the “on” position. (During this time the light doesn’t do anything.)

In the Lutron app the dimmers show up correctly, and in HomeKit they do as well. The strange states are observed only in Home Assistant.

Has anyone else seen this?

2

Can you post your configuration?

3

I’m running HA 0.43.2, and the only Caseta configuration is this:

lutron_caseta:
    host: 192.168.17.xxx

The switches are showing up as switches, the dimmers are showing up as lights, and aside from those two dimmers doing weird things, it all seems to work.

I don’t have any automations involving those lights. Please let me know if it would be helpful to post more configuration or debug info.

4

Do you know if you have a pro bridge or a non pro bridge? If it is pro can you post the Lutron integration report from the lutron mobile app?

5

It’s a pro bridge (v2) – the non-pro bridge doesn’t work with this HA component at all, as far as I know (and I tried!). I just installed the pro bridge yesterday, set up a new Caseta account, and manually re-paired all of my accessories with the new bridge. Then set up the HA component.

The integration report looks like this:

​{
  "LIPIdList" : {
    "Devices" : [
      {
        "ID" : 1,
        "Name" : "Smart Bridge",
        "Buttons" : [
          {
            "Name" : "Button 1",
            "Number" : 1
          },
          {
            "Name" : "Button 2",
            "Number" : 2
          },
          {
            "Name" : "Button 3",
            "Number" : 3
          },

# . . . [Buttons 4 through 98 omitted from this post, same as the others]

          {
            "Name" : "Button 99",
            "Number" : 99
          },
          {
            "Name" : "Button 100",
            "Number" : 100
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "ID" : 9,
        "Name" : "Front Entry Switch",
        "Buttons" : [
          {
            "Number" : 2
          },
          {
            "Number" : 4
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "ID" : 10,
        "Name" : "Morning Room Remote",
        "Buttons" : [
          {
            "Number" : 2
          },
          {
            "Number" : 3
          },
          {
            "Number" : 4
          },
          {
            "Number" : 5
          },
          {
            "Number" : 6
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "ID" : 11,
        "Name" : "Driveway Remote",
        "Buttons" : [
          {
            "Number" : 2
          },
          {
            "Number" : 4
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "ID" : 12,
        "Name" : "Garage Remote",
        "Buttons" : [
          {
            "Number" : 2
          },
          {
            "Number" : 4
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "ID" : 14,
        "Name" : "Kitchen Ceiling Remote",
        "Buttons" : [
          {
            "Number" : 2
          },
          {
            "Number" : 3
          },
          {
            "Number" : 4
          },
          {
            "Number" : 5
          },
          {
            "Number" : 6
          }
        ]
      }
    ],
    "Zones" : [
      {
        "ID" : 2,
        "Name" : "Front Porch Light"
      },
      {
        "ID" : 3,
        "Name" : "Front Hall Pendant"
      },
      {
        "ID" : 4,
        "Name" : "Garage Ceiling"
      },
      {
        "ID" : 5,
        "Name" : "Driveway"
      },
      {
        "ID" : 6,
        "Name" : "Kitchen Island"
      },
      {
        "ID" : 7,
        "Name" : "Living Room Ceiling"
      },
      {
        "ID" : 8,
        "Name" : "Morning Room"
      },
      {
        "ID" : 13,
        "Name" : "Kitchen Ceiling"
      }
    ]
  }
}

The Kitchen Ceiling and the Living Room Ceiling dimmers were the ones showing strange behavior last night. And right now, the Kitchen Ceiling light isn’t even showing up in HA (though I see it in the Lutron app and in HomeKit).

6

When did you try the non pro bridge? I have had several reports that it works with my latest edits.
Check this out: Lutron Caseta - invalid config
I am just curious.

Back to your issue… I don’t see anything wrong in your config and the integration report looks normal.

I think I will have to take you up on your offer to get some debug logs. I am looking for any logs that come from the smartbridge class.

7

Oh, I tried it on my non-pro bridge, got a startup error, and assumed there was no way to get the configuration/integration data out of it without the pro bridge. So I just bought a pro bridge. In other words, I threw money at the problem!

(Side note: it’s irritating that the non-pro bridge and the pro bridge are the exact same piece of hardware, with the exact same hardware part number and FCC certification, but with different firmware. Grrrr.)

Anyway, over the last day or so I haven’t seen the problem recur. I’m not sure what prompted it. But in the meantime I’m going to sit tight until (if?) I see it again, and if I do, I’ll grab some debug logs.

Thanks for the support gurumitts.

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