The Lutron Aurora is the perfect controller for our rental. I’ve used them successfully with the Hue Hub and recently moving to Home Assistant thought they would be easy to use as well. I am wrong. They are pretty much the most painful thing to get working. Are there other options for on/off and s…

How have you configured them? They work mostly okay for me using Zigbee2mqtt. You can bind them directly to a light which is a bit more reliable. I have some directly bound to individual lights, and some using Node-Red My main issue with the Aurora is how they handle dimming and the fact that if yo…

I recently decided to ditch the Hue hub and moved all of my Hue lights and accessories to Zigbee2MQTT. The move was mostly smooth, except the switches. I decided to install and learn AppDaemon, because it’s a lot easier to write the complex automations to get them to work how I want. I got them a…

With a primarily ZHA home setup, the only reason I’d delve into Zigbee2MQTT now would be for the Aurora’s. I’d make the effort to get up to speed with that, but at this point I feel I should slow down and just study what I’ve been able to get working so far - without a better understanding of what…

Finally got around to making a solution. [image] Lutron Aurora controller for Zigbee2MQTT via pyscript Share your Projects! Trying to get the most I can out of these old switches. They don’t provide enough information in ZHA to do reasonable dimmer control, but Z2MQTT pro…

Simple Home Assistant compatible alternative to Lutron Aurora switches?

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GollyJer (Jeremy Gollehon) December 11, 2025, 4:43am 5

Finally got around to making a solution.