Set HomeKit Scenes with the Lutron Pico Remote!
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- Опубликовано: 9 июл 2024
- Use the button on the Lutron Pico remote to set HomeKit scenes!
I've used Lutron Caseta smart wall switches in my HomeKit setup for a long time. A big selling point is that you can pair these with the Pico remotes for 3 way switch setups (two switches that control one light).
These pico remotes have a button in the middle that never gets much use in my house. In this video I will show you how you can use this button to trigger your HomeKit scenes and accessories. Finally get some good use out of this little button!
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Great video, Shane. I’ve remembered this video was out there so when I finally got my Casetas all over the house this week, I went back and watched this today. You took at all the hard part as it took about 5 minutes in total to do two of these remotes. A common pathway in the house is the upper level, down to flights of stairs, across a small hallway, and out through the garage. Often we do this in reverse. I now have Picos where the uppermost Pico turns the entire pathway on as down the garage Pico. Thanks for the great hack!
This is SO brilliant. I’ve never used the small button on the Pico and now there is a fantastic use for them! Further, as they are not an intuitive button, it’s great as most folks walking by would not think to press it when wanting to turn on/off a light
This is a great little trick. I just set a Pico to toggle between All on, watch movie and off using condition checks on the lights. With a mix of Lutron, Hue and HomeKit switches.
Love the middle button on the Pico. Use it all the time.
As always, fantastic content, Shane! I actually look forward to Sundays now!
Thanks Jim!! I appreciate the support!
Grieat stuff Shane! Really enjoying your reviews and experiences as I grow my HomeKit too!
Glad you like them! Thanks for watching!
Hey Shane. Great video, great hack that works very well! I just installed my first Caseta switches today along with 2 Pico remotes. Used your hack to create an automation on the Pico remote scene button and it worked first time like a charm. Again, you continue to deliver solid value 100% of the time on your channel. Just wanted to say thanks.
Thank you very much! I appreciate the kind words and I’m glad the videos have been helpful!
As always, appreciate the content. Might have to try this idea to open the garage door from the entryway light switch.
Nice. That’s definitely a cool use for it!
Love it, have several Pico remotes doing nothing right now...gives me some great ideas!!!!
Great to hear!
Brilliant! Just what I was looking for.
Good stuff Shane. Great idea getting that button exposed.
Thanks Eric!
Very cool stuff.
I have used that button for ‘nighttime’ brightness in my master bedroom, which has worked great. It’s slick that you can tie it to everything else in the house too.
Pretty sure I have a couple of those remotes sitting around unused, may need to play around and find a spot for them...
Thanks again for your content Shane. Good stuff as usual.
You’re welcome, thanks for watching! Yea I had some unused also. And the ones I was using for 3 way switches, I’ve literally never used the “favorite” button. So this has come in handy. My daughter loves being able to set the movie time scene with this.
Great video and reuse of an old trick. I had no idea the PiCO remotes had that ability. I’ve used them as a remote for My Sonos speakers but never dig into the scenes setting on the Lutron app. Great find! Now I’m going to have to see if I can find my remotes. :)
Haha thanks Chris! Yea I dug one unused out of my garage. But I've had these others in the walls controlling 3 way light switches for the longest and never used that button! So I'm excited to set them all up and get some good use out of that extra button. 😀 🤓
Very informative and easy to understand for beginners. New construction home being built should I have smart light switches & dimmers pre-wired? Basic smart package is all run by Amazon. Thank you.
Superlative Shane. I need to install some wall switches.
Yea man I love using smart wall switches. Having a physical switch you can still use that’s also connected to HomeKit is great.
I can't be the only one who caught the "Sexy Time" scene at 6:19! 🤣💃🏼🕺🏼
Very cool ideas!
Nathan Cluster thanks for watching!
Shane: I found I way to do this.
Me: At least someone is using there quarantine time to be productive. 😜
Cam Millen 😂 😂
I need help I went out and bought all kinds of smart bulbs for my home mostly Nanoleaf and hue bulbs but now I’m trying to switch out all my physical switches over to Lutron diva smart dimmers and nothing is working are there special bulbs I need to purchase for these to work I don’t want to lose the ability to have colors when I want to
Pretty neat I have 3 remotes and made a 3D printed case to house them and this might take them a bit further with scenes. The thing that I always question is integrating all these ideas like nfc tags I feel at one point we won’t be able to keep track of what does what!
haha yea...sometimes it's best to just keep things simple. It's easy to get carried away.
What a GREAT idea! But now I have a lot of programming to do. 😎😄
Thanks Kevin! Thought you could use a new weekend project! 😉
6:23 if I'm including the light that the Pico Remote controls in the scene I want to set, can that light be off (0%)? I know you said in the caption 'anything other than 2%' but want to make sure the percentage doesn't have to be > 0%
Wow just seeing for First time. Stupid question- if you want to ‘override’/change the lighting at any point- real time-is easiest way just to manually say hit the top button on pico (if wanted to make lights brighter ) and then does that ‘take it out of the programmed mode’?
Another Good Vid Shane. I have been using Lurton switches for a long time and have lots of them best HomeKit switch imo. My question is how did you set up your code red seen to flash the lights red?
Thanks Jeremy! There are a couple of ways to setup the lights to flash like that. The best way is if you have lights that expose the "light effect mode" to homekit...however most do not. I know the vocolinc lights do. I talked about that in this video: ruclips.net/video/2vgsBaVcC_Q/видео.html
Another way is through shortcuts and you can't include it in a scene quite the same, but here is a video showing this method: ruclips.net/video/SQx8r_kwnbk/видео.html
Hello Shane, I've been watching your videos lately since I've became interested in purchasing a few smart light switches currently have Philips hue but would love to buy a few smart light switches for where color isn't needed. I liked the aqara dual rocker switches you reviewed a bit back but also liked the lutron caseta smart switches but is there a dual rocker version of the lutron caseta smart switches similar to the aqara? I'd like to know before I venture into any of this two systems as both require a hub & I definitely need at least two dual rocker smart switches. Would appreciate your feedback, thanks
I don't believe Lutron Caseta offers a dual switch unfortunately. Lutron Caseta switches are fantastic and I can't recommend them enough, however they are expensive and I don't think there is the dual option.
For that you might have to go with Aqara. I don't know of many that offer a dual rocker like that. I haven't used the Aqara switches too long, but I've been happy with all the other Aqara accessories that I own.
What about the other buttons? If I had a spare remote could each button be used to trigger different scenes ?
Not without controlling the lights also. Unless you use homebridge. I haven't tried it, but I've heard that there is a plugin that will expose the pico remote allowing you to use the buttons to control homekit accessories/scenes.
thanks for the vid shane. could u explain a bit more about long pressing the button? what happens when u do that? how does that work?
Renfred Tay sorry if that was unclear. The button on these serve as a “favorite” setting so when you long press the button (10 seconds) it will save the current brightness level of the light.
Shane Whatley thanks for the reply. correct me if i am wrong in my understanding. so when u long press a physical button for 10s (even if the switch does not show up as one of the configurable buttons in the home app), homekit will remember the current state of the entire home (in other words it remembers the scene at the point in time). so when u press the button the next time, that scene is triggerred?
like how did homekit know that the long press for 10s on the button was meant for that particular light?
So this pico remote really doesn’t have anything to do with HomeKit essentially. It is paired with a Lutron wall switch in the Lutron app (used for those 3 way switch setups I was talking about). The Lutron wall switch is what’s exposed to HomeKit. So basically, the pico remote sets the brightness of the wall switch, and that wall switch is exposed to HomeKit, therefore can be used to trigger automations. Hope that makes sense.
Shane Whatley oh i see it now. this was specifically for the lutron wall switch. i kept thinking that the 10s press thing could be applied to any button. thanks for helping clear that up! sorry everyone if i caused any confusion.
Hi Shane, question, i bought an Aqara switch single rocker with neutral, do you think i can use that in replacement of my typical old switch but there is no neutral wire? hope you got my question. thanks in advance
Lorenzo Ombac no unfortunately I don’t think that will work. I would try to return it or exchange it for the single rocker no neutral version.
@@ShaneCreates thanks for your reply. I think I have to buy another type.It will cost more when returning.
Hey Shane: I have Caseta/Lutron in my home as well, but i need to put a switch where there isnt one to control a couple LiFX smart bulbs.. do you have any ideas? i was thinking if a pico could be used that would be cool, but i am not sure that would be possible.. looking for other homekit battery operated switches that i could set up a scene for or something
The pico remotes can only control other Lutron switches/lights. Unless you have homebridge or hoobs setup...I believe there is a plugin that allows you to use it to control any homekit accessory.
Your best bet is probably to find a homekit button that you can use for your LiFX bulbs. There are a number of them with different designs, etc. Phillips Hue dimmer switch, Eve button, Aqara mini switch...just to name a few. Some may require a hub.
@@ShaneCreates Thanks - i do have the aqara hub and water sensors.. so if i can hold my horses on them getting restocked on amazon i think ill go for those.. i also have hoobs (on rpi) so i'll poke around for that.. thanks!!
I'm new to the pico remote, everything you did made sense, but why does holding down the fav button on the Pico remote work?
Sorry, I'm not sure I understand the question.
@@ShaneCreates Sorry, sure in the video you hold the button down for 10 sec, what exactly happens when you do that?
@@spencerbigum1309 That sets the current light setting of that switch as a favorite for the button. Out of the box, the button in the middle is just a favorite button. Sorry if that wasn't clear initially. Hope that helps.
@@ShaneCreates Awesome thx! Yea it seemed like magic at a first but now it makes sense! Good job on figuring all that out!
@@spencerbigum1309 haha no problem! It IS like magic!
Do you know any smart lights for LED tube lights?
I only see smart bulbs but I haven't really heard anything for LED tube lights that replaced Florissant light
Jason, can you just use a smart wall switch?
Shane Whatley oh yeah. I forgot about that. Would you recommend the switch you have in this video or just those smart switches that is only for a single light to replace the existing non smart switch?
Jason Ong the little pico remote one this one is just used to pair with Lutron Caseta switches when you need to replace a 3 way switch. Lutron Caseta smart switches are fantastic. I’ve been using them for a long time and super reliable. They are a great option if you have way switches to replace. They are pricey tho and require a bridge. The Aqara switches from my other video are more affordable and good too but I haven’t been using them that long. They also require a bridge. There are some WiFi switches available if you want one that doesn’t require a bridge, but I haven’t used any.
Shane Whatley I have seen your other videos about Aqara. I was thinking for going to Aqara for budget constraints. Would the Aqara work well with the HomeKit app or better in the Aqara app?
@@ShaneCreates I love Lutron Caseta and agree with you on the reliability. Lutron invented the dimmer... they know it better than anyone and that shows in the quality of the product.
I have been using Caseta dimmers for over 5 years and it's been a hit and miss depending on what you're dimming.
Caseta dimmers work but are limited by their outdated, analogue dimming circuitry which Lutron has been using for well over 30 years. It's old and inefficient technology that's very limited. Expect to loose about 12% of your supply voltage to the dimmer's antiquated technology. It was really noticeable back in the Halogen lighting days with Lutron's previous dimmer lines and still noticeable now with the Caseta line when you use higher end LED PAR20, PAR30 and PAR38 LEDs with a super high output and high CRI. What you see with a voltage meter at the e26 socket with the dimmer at full setting is around 103V to 106V on a 120V supply which ends up taking the edge off high performance LED lights and making them look average.
If you are only using average, middle of the road LEDs and/or almost always dimming them, then it's no problem as you won't miss having 12% less light output at the top to begin with. How Lutron can call these 'smart light controls' when they are still using 30+ year old analogue dimming technology is beyond embarrassing. Why not go completely digital when the light sources these days are for the most part digital?
What's the name of that second app?
BOB LAPORTILLA the Eve app
Changing light color is cool and but seem unnecessary. Most people probably dont want it.
You have a remarkable ability to make fluffy videos. Please include a link to skip to the actual content so we can skip past you repeating the same things over and over again. This video could have been 60 seconds and gotten the same point across.
Is this really a homekit video?
4:23 huge turn off watching the cheap construction of the Lutron remote flex like that when you push on it...