Any news or indication as to when official Luton caseta support will be enabled?
I haven’t seen any. I check the link @JDRoberts posted to Lutron’s official website every few days, but it’s still showing “Coming Soon”.
It’s fairly far along in our testing process. It’s going well!
Well come on, I spent all that $$$ on Lutron and having to use IFTTT to turn on lights is pathetic. 
@njschwartz has created a really useful implementation you can use to do the integration now if you’d like. [BETA] Lutron Caseta Integration using Raspberry Pi (Pro or Standard Bridge) [DEPRECATED--See new Release thread instead]
You don’t have to use a raspberry pi, BTW. I’ve got my running on a linux VM. It’s pretty straight forward so you might check it out if you just can’t wait for that integration.
Would be nice if SmartThings could add-on the Lutron protocol to their hub by using the USB port on the hub with a USB dongle. This way there is no need for a Lutron Bridge:sweat_smile:
Don’t see Lutron letting that happen.
Lutron is fine with dongles as long as they are licensed. But you don’t need one, Lutron has an open API which allows for telnet integration with the Lutron Smartbridge. Lutron generally likes integrations with systems that provide extended functionality.
Since the SmartThings hub doesn’t support telnet, Two different community members have created “man in the middle” server integrations with Lutron using the telnet options.
Thanks for the reminder @njschwartz has created a great solution that works well based on all the feedback.
I’m going to hold out for the stock ST solution, sounds like that’s close. Also happy that we have a plan B thanks to this great community.
I’m sure folks will be able to validate differences pros/cons of ST Lutron partnership versus the community solution as soon as it gets released.
Still very happy I went Lutron Caseta for light switches. Just wish they made a multi speed fan control for switch consistency. Having to opt just for their on/off switch and just have the one speed. 
I’d love to see them expand the caseta line a bit too, but they may be holding those devices for their more premium line…
I think the 4-6 weeks is about up 
I still have 3 switches I got through Alexa deal waiting to hook up. Installed one and using IFTTT but the delay is ridiculous
You can send me those other two so the wait isn’t as hard!
What is the delay with IFTTT?
Does anyone know what delay is expected to be from the Lutron Caseta invocation via Smart Things?
I have three weeks before I’ll have to return my Caseta Devices within the return policy if I can’t try the integration before then… Anyone (@Tyler ?) know if the integration will likely be available in the next 3 weeks?
Details:
- I actually recently bought $2,500 worth of Caseta dimmers/remotes for my house, but I’m not going to install them until I can see if the SmartThings works well with them. (My main concern is delay time from SmartThings -> Light Reaction. I care less about swtich -> SmartThings.)
- For reference, it’s about 1-2 seconds from the end of “alexa, bedroom 30%” to lighting response through the Lutron Caseta hub on my test dimmer. (Fast internet here, if that matters.)
The IFTTT delay varies from house to house, you just have to try it at your house and see. At my house it’s a pretty consistent eight seconds which is fine for some things, but would be too long for others. For example, “turn the lights on at sunset” doesn’t matter if it’s off by eight seconds one way or the other. But using a motion sensor to trigger a light to come on to someone walks in the room would find eight seconds unacceptably long.
Good wifi will help, but mostly it’s the round-trip to the cloud.
If you have harmony or hue bridge already set up, you can test the lag using their channels, it should be pretty similar to Lutron’ Smartbridge.
I personally have Lutron Caseta switches and like them a lot, but I’m not using them with smart things. I am using them with echo.
One more thing, which you probably already know, but just to be sure given the size of your investment: the official Lutron/smartthings integration is cloud to cloud and does not include the pico remote. So smartthings will not be aware of any button presses on a pico even with the official integration.
Community member @njschwartz has built his own connector which is working great for a growing number of uses. I’m sure I read latency was not an issue for his solution (local connection via RasPI) so there’s a solid plan b if the native ST solution isn’t for you.
I have a growing number of Caseta switches, dimmers and Picos - love them!. They’re so nice and polished compared to other smart switches (and I’ve tried a bunch).
My vote. Keep em!
Link to post. [BETA] Lutron Caseta Integration using Raspberry Pi (Pro or Standard Bridge) [DEPRECATED--See new Release thread instead]
Here’s a completely unscientific test, at 10:00pm EST (FWIW).
Smartthings command sent via a CoRE “DO” piston to IFTTT to my Wink hub to a Lutron switch: range of 3 to 5 seconds response.
YMMV, especially based upon time of day, loads, etc.
Thanks everyone for the data. With Alexa/Echo’s delay at at about a second (including doing voice processing!) I do hope smartthings can integrated with a similar latency as opposed to the 3-5 seconds with IFTTT.
Forgive all the ignorant questions, but ignoring latency, will smartthings have programmatic access to the on/off or dimming level of a Caseta dimmer? If so, it seems to me that you can infer pico remote button presses by polling the associated dimmer for changes, no?
I was thinking that also, but you likely wouldn’t be able to differentiate the Pico button presses from the same presses made on the dimmer. Which, for many cases would be fine, but if you wanted a particular button press on the Pico to trigger a scene or state change, you likely wouldn’t be able to do that.