Lutron “VIVE” Series & PICO Wireless Switching

Brief video showing how to program wireless switches to your relay.

[@josephhaefeli9954]

What also might not be obvious to some viewers: Just because you have 6 circuits doesn't mean you need 6 remotes. The load requirements might require 6 packs, but if you find that you always turn on zones 1,2,3 together, or 5,6,7 (for example) you can set up two remotes to do just that. Remote A switches 1,2,3 together, remote B switches 5,6,7. If you come in from the south door, you could have a remote there that controls 2,4,6 if you are always turning those on at that entrance. Within the 6 zones, you could also have an individual remote for each zone right there in the zone. One cool thing you could do: Have a 7th remote at one or more locations. Train all 6 switch packs to recognize #7. Now you can turn on or off the entire room with 1 push. That might be the remote on your visor: You can hit the remote as you leave and turn everything off for the night. Just make sure you have a few always-on nightlights so you don't plunge people into darkness by accident. You could also put a master remote on the forklift so the driver can turn the rest of the room on if he/she didn't turn on all the zones earlier. Then there is the Lutron bridge, and their app, and Apple Homekit and Amazon's Alexis and and and... But the bottom line is you spent $1K on Lutron controls, saved thousands in wiring costs, and now can add/move/delete circuits any time in the future. Impressive stuff! .

[@fabiodowntown5494]

Thanks man

[@justink7269]

Yeah but most jobs with this tech wont be adding or removing controls like that. We are installing big permanent lighting systems. Honestly the way you describe the flexibility makes it sound like its hackable

[@josephhaefeli9954]

@@justink7269 Regarding hackability: I'll never say never, but Lutron has been at this awhile and I have not heard of any security issues, especially when these systems are installed stand-alone,. You'd need physical access to the system to hack it, Hook stuff to the internet? All bets are off. And the whole point of these systems is flexibility. Environments that feature flexible floor plans, e.g. big offices, save a ton of money when move/add/change/deletes take place. Statically wired systems are hard to justify in many cases. Even if a system isn't wireless, it's going to be something like DALI that allows easy reconfiguration of loads and switching.

[@justink7269]

Thanks for posting this, it's very helpful and I know you didnt have to. You inspire me to post videos.

[@leonandrade7183]

Thanks for the help I couldn't get it to work neither....👍👍

[@epeltier]

How many amps is each circuit?

[@justinfenimore4082]

Does the Pico Switch communicate well 200ft away from the PowPak?

[@UpWheel.]

The pico’s boost each other, as long they are within 100ft of each other

[@fabiodowntown5494]

How can I connect them to a daylight sensor

[@josephhaefeli9954]

I suggest calling Lutron. They do make motion sensors for this system and I think some of them support ambient light sensing. The motion sensors program into the switch packs just as easily as the little remotes. Once you know the dumb voodoo about paring devices to packs! Thanks for the vid about that Chris.