Migration underway from Zwave HomeSeer WD-100+ to Lutron Caseta

Using a pro-hub and the Caseta-pro component that uses telnet to connect to the hub.

All I can say so far is holy shit it’s fast to trigger lights; but more importantly to update HA when a manual light event occurs. So far no more refresh or weird logic needed to keep the GUI state correct.

A side benefit is by removing ~43 Zwave devices the system has had a meaningful reduction of the 1, 5, and 15 minute loads. Running on a NUC so not a big deal; but a bit shocking how much load the zwave stack was consuming. On a rPI this is likely a huge different - and why I moved off a rPI. Load went from a fairly consistent ~0.4 to <0.1 and temps dropped considerably too.

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Even if I havr the possibility to afford it the price levels for this brand is crazy.

Yes, they have a good product that is well tested and complete and they certainly charge for that.

But if I consider the time wasted on bullshit zwave products and troubleshooting it’s probably a break even. I have a bucket of stuff that I bought as I avoided the Caseta due to cost and being propreitary only to end up buying it eventually…

But what devices have you exchanged. They are mostly into switches are they not?

Light Dimmers, and switches.

43 of them?