Lutron radiora2 "unexpected error" when trying to connect to repeater

getting “unexpected error” when trying to connect to static ip radiora2 repeater. here’s the error log:

[homeassistant.components.lutron.config_flow] Unknown error
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.13/site-packages/homeassistant/components/lutron/config_flow.py", line 52, in async_step_user
    await self.hass.async_add_executor_job(main_repeater.load_xml_db)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.13/concurrent/futures/thread.py", line 59, in run
    result = self.fn(*self.args, **self.kwargs)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.13/site-packages/pylutron/__init__.py", line 538, in load_xml_db
    assert(parser.parse())     # throw our own exception
           ~~~~~~~~~~~~^^
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.13/site-packages/pylutron/__init__.py", line 227, in parse
    root = ET.fromstring(self._xml_db_str)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.13/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 1343, in XML
    return parser.close()
           ~~~~~~~~~~~~^^
xml.etree.ElementTree.ParseError: no element found: line 1, column 0

I can ping, I unplugged/plugged back in, I can connect to it via http, any ideas?

I’m using docker-compose version of homeassistant, and I’m on an older firmware (9 maybe?) on the repeater