Thanks for all your contributions, here is my dilemma:
A few months ago I moved away from not reliable lightning using Vera and z-wave to HA and Lutron Caseta. I was delighted as it just worked, no delay, easy automations, reliability. However, I did neglect to consider that all is depending on a company using proprietary technology, they switched something and everything in my house broke (automation wise). 100% my fault, I should have known better.
Here is my question: What to do from here on, what are your thoughts?
- Hoping for a wonder and stick it out until HA and Caseta can talk to each other again magically (IMHO not an option, as it won’t happen reliably).
- Trying to rescue my automations using IFTTT, as kindly shown by a fellow poster (seems to be a lot of effort and not sure how reliable this will be in the long run).
- Switching to a Caseta pro-bridge (hoping I can get it to work and hoping it to stay working in the future).
- Adding a wink-hub to replace the caseta bridge (I’d rather not go that route as it adds another device similar to the Vera which I want to get rid off).
- Cut my losses and sell my Lutron stuff on ebay?
In a way I am lucky as I was about to pull the trigger on purchasing Lutron Shades. I sure won’t do that unless Lutron provides some guarantees that it will work with the home automation software of my choice.
What are you planning to do? Any pointers?