You Won't Believe What You Can Do With Pico Remotes!

[@carlmessner]

This is exactly what I was looking for. I'll get those and try it out at some point. Thanks!

[@Ganserndorf9411]

The 4-button scene control are the only pico worth buying since they can do what all other pico remotes do plus so much more. They are the only pico remotes that allow to selectively control any light, shade or switch in the house in any desired combination of configuration. I have 25 of them across my house (with a RA2 select system).

[@BrandonDoyleMN]

Yeah they’re pretty neat, I’d like to get some custom ones made some day. I heard with RA2 you can make each button toggle on/off, but with caseta it just does scene control

[@Ganserndorf9411]

@@BrandonDoyleMN True when using RadioRA2, but with RA2-Select it is scene control only, just like Caseta. It is however easy enough to use one of the four buttons for the “off” function. I did not bother with ordering picos with customized labels, I simply put P-Touch tape on each button with label I want. It looks super nice and it is very easy to change the labels when needed (which can be quite frequent in the beginning as you adapt the programming to your needs).

[@CWaldman]

​@@Ganserndorf9411 Have you tried using rules machine to set the scene button to toggle a light? This should allow RA2 scenes to act as on/off with a single button.

[@supernova8962]

TY ...They have two types of Lutron Pro Hub ...one without Homekit and one with Homekit .....which one is your model

[@BrandonDoyleMN]

They both support HomeKit now, but this is the l-bdgpro2

[@BrandonDoyleMN]

support.lutron.com/us/en/product/casetawireless/article/product-selection/the-caseta-smart-bridge for reference.

[@stevenrothstein8941]

I wanted to see how to set up the Pico Remote thin wall switch.

[@BrandonDoyleMN]

Programming or installation on the wall? Both are easy to do

[@ronm6585]

Thank you.

[@DieselZee]

It seems the remotes are only good for turning a previous non 3 way switch into a 3 way switch. The actual dimmer switches that are wired into your junction box are $120/piece. If I have 10 dimmer switches in my house and I wanted to replace them with the Lutron version, I’d be paying over $1200 just for 10 dimmer switches. That seems outrageous. Or am I confused?

[@BrandonDoyleMN]

I paid around $40 for the dimmers in our house, the picos are good in the secondary spot of a 3 way or as an additional controller in a place that didn’t already have a switch. I like that you can use a pico to control multiple switches/dimmers and create scenes

[@DieselZee]

@@BrandonDoyleMN where did you find Lutron Caseta Smart Dimmer switches for $40? Everywhere I’m seeing is $100-$120. I’m interested in replacing my dimmer switches with Lutron’s (my current switches make my LED’s flicker). But they seem so expensive

[@BrandonDoyleMN]

@@DieselZee I buy them at Home Depot, Lowe’s, Amazon & eBay. Retail is around $60 but they do go on sale and occasionally have a discount for buying 3 or more. We did our entire house with the original caseta style dimmers and last year upgraded them to the new diva and Claro versions. Since publishing this video they do make a matching pico now too

[@DieselZee]

@@BrandonDoyleMN cool. What model did you all end up buying?

[@BrandonDoyleMN]

@@DieselZee Lutron Diva & Claro style from the Caseta lineup. I figured not all lights need dimming

[@alanmoore2197]

Just something to think about. A switch/dimmer that toggles lights is useful only for lights controlled Only by that switch/dimmer. If the controlled lights are part of multiple scenes, automations or schedules then "toggling" is a quite meaningless concept. Just think - before you press the "toggle button" you have no idea what lights are already on - controlled by one of those other methods, so you aren't always starting from 'off'. After you've selected the new scene with the "toggle on" one of those methods can then subsequently modify it again. So if you were to later try to "toggle off" that scene - you don't know what the starting levels were before you first pressed the button and you don't even know what the current levels are... What should the "toggled off" scene look like?? all the scene lights off? - that wouldn't really make sense if they weren't off to start with... This is the reason scenes don't toggle - its really quite meaningless in a complete context.