Lutron Caseta Interface

ahh… okay you are using a wall switch with the hood. I didn’t think about that. I have a not so fancy exhaust hood with (mechanical) light button on the front of the unit. Its all i could fit in my little kitchen.

These enerwave switches are pretty reliable connected to Vera+, I have one running on a heated led mirror in the bathroom. It initially had two wires coming out off the mirror for the defogger and mirror light connected to one PD-6ANS-WH switch from the wall. Started using Enerwave switch which has dual output. Used that to split up the LED / defogger and control that with a pico 4 button on off. Been running it for almost year and its been super solid. I guess I will go forward with exhaust light.

I had an aeotech z-wave behind my bathroom switches originally and my wife (and 4-year old daughter) HATED when they’d get in the reverse order. This has a much higher WAF

Yeah Caseta is pricey but EBay is your friend and in my experience you can’t find better WAF with anything else… and the picos look soo great mounted on the wall anywhere you want controlling anything you want!

My favorite uses are:

  1. Remote wall mounted dynamic volume control for my Denon receiver…across the open living area!

  2. Wireless emergency buttons that trigger echo routines and announcement “Help Needed” when either of us are sick in bed.

I don’t think you’ll regret the investment at all!

Now that the native Caseta integration supports Picos and Shades, as well as the spiffy new auto-detected setup (no need to generate a certificate or an integration report anymore), is there any advantage to using the upsert integration anymore? I’m doing a fresh install of HA, and hadn’t realized just how far the native integration had come.