Lutron Caseta Pro - Some Lights Missing

Third party integrations
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I was running the unsupported Lutron Caseta Pro integration for Home Assistant:

And it was performing really well.

With the latest versions of Home Assistant, this module is no longer supported, so I switched to the official implementation here:

Unfortunately, the official implementation has a number of my devices that cannot be seen. The Entities come up as “unavailable” in Home Assistant - but they work just fine in Lutron.

Anyone have a clue why this is? Why does the unofficial version work so well, but the official version has missing entities?

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The official integration (which supports the non-Pro bridge and the Pro bridge) won’t show Pico remotes, that’s true, and that’s largely why @upsert’s custom component exists. What trouble are you having with recent versions of Home Assistant? I’m using the custom component with 0.99.3 currently and it works great!

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I figured out the issue.

As I migrated from the custom component to the official integration, there was a conflict with a number of my named switches and lights. I had to delete them completely as entities in Home Assistant, and then add the “new” names back in to my automations and panels.

4

Good to hear. :+1:

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Do you have it installed via HACS or did you manually install it? Is HACS even in use now? Seems redundant with the Add-on store, no?

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I have the Lutron custom component installed via HACS now but installed it manually much earlier.

HACS is for integrations, custom components, themes, and Lovelace custom cards that run as part of Home Assistant Core. The Home Assistant add-on store is for things that can be used with Home Assistant but run separately, so both are useful but for different things.

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Thanks forgive my ignorance. I guess I just don’t understand why the integration is a ‘custom component’ instead of an official integration. Wouldn’t it make more sense to have separate integrations for the Lutron hub and Lutron Pro hubs? I am impressed with how thoughtful and polite everyone is here. Great community overall! :slight_smile:

Also I don’t fully understand devices or entities. Why does it create only entities and not devices when Lutron dimmable light switches and pico remotes are added? When I integrate with WeMo or TP-Kasa switch, it add a device and entity. I thought devices are meant to represent physical hardware.