Hello Lutron HA community. I am in the midst of a very slow home renovation, replacing pretty much everything. Years ago, I fished around for lighting automation solutions, and I have tried and abandoned X10 and UPB. I discovered Lutron EcoSystem (Lutron’s proprietary extension of DALI but they are generally interoperable), and Lutron’s QS proprietary bus (9-bit RS-485 at 100kbps). I started small with a QSGRJ-16E “Grafik Eye” controller and EcoSystem fluorescent electronic ballasts. Eventually, I now have a system of 8 QSGRJ-16E’s tied together through a shared QS bus in what Lutron calls “QS Standalone” mode (per the Lutron Integration Protocol manuals). I have dozens of QSWS2 wallstations, and many more L3D and LDE driven LED lights. I also have a couple of dozen SivoiaQS blind motors to be installed. The system works just fine, including QSE-IO discrete I/O’s to integrate with Velux skylights.
I would like to add automation to this system using Home Assistant, and I have a QSE-CI-NWK-E Ethernet to QS bus interface. No, I do not have a RadioRA2 main repeater (I am not using the RadioRA2 interfaces in the QSGRJ’s), nor do I have a Homeworks processor (I do have a Lutron Quantum processor, maybe a QS P6 that I bought and found out it was useless without dropping a whole lot of money on Lutron for Windows software). According to the Lutron Integration Protocol manuals, the text interface between the RadioRA2 Main Repeater and the QSE-CI-NWK-E appear quite similar in structure via both the serial port an the telnet interface. I experimented with the protocol years ago using an NWK-E connected to a QSG (earlier version o f the QSGRJ) with limited success as the QSG was an abandoned product that never correctly/fully implemented the integration protocol.
Can anyone help me integrate my QS Standalone system to Home Assistant? If it is not currently supported, I have a few decades of software development experience that may help me add it if someone could guide me to the Lutron integration interface code in HA.
Thanks for any help you can provide.
(Yes, I know that QS Standalone has been quietly deprecated by Lutron once they discovered that it did not bring in recurring license fees nor require “certified” installers.)