Smart Lighting: How I made a Lutron Caseta Pico Remote control my LIFX Bulbs (EASY!)
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- Опубликовано: 6 сен 2024
- Here's my journey through leveraging Samsung Smartthings to allow a Lutron Caseta Pico remote to control five of my LIFX smart bulbs in my living room. Now controlling lamps is just as simple as using these two new light switches! It was far less complicated than I thought it would be. And my wife's reaction to not having to use Alexa to turn these lights off or on? "Good!" I have a happy customer :). Home automation for the win!
Hey! Just wanted to give my 2 cents. I have this exact same setup in my house for a couple years now. Took forever to find a solution to have a physical switch (with dimmer) to control my lifx bulbs. So far works great, only issue I have with this setup is the delay but its not terrible
One thing I did different for getting the dimmer to work in the smartthings app was under the "smart lighting" in automations i set the "action" to just sync with switch. That way smartthings is just reading what dim level the switch is at and matching it to the bulbs. Not sure if it works any better or worse than what youve done but would save the time of setting up many dofferent automations
Also funny you mentioned the switch not having a center button, i did stumble across a lutron caseta switch on amazon that has the center button. It is quite a bit more expensive but for me was worth it
Can this be achieved with the switches instead of the plug in lamp dimmer?
You can absolutely use a switch as the trigger. That’s what I did in my office. The Lutron switch triggers the accent lights that are connected to Kasa smart plugs.
@@TechWinnerCC great thanks! And do you need a hub to get this to work with lifx?
Lutron needs a hub to connect to the internet. LIFX bulbs connect directly to WiFi, so they do not need a hub.
Could you do this with Ecobee smart home hub?
I’m not sure what you mean, I’m not familiar with a smart hub made by Ecobee.
Was a hub required to do this with the Picos?
Yes, a Lutron Caseta hub is required. Thank you for commenting!
@@TechWinnerCC the bulb was able to connect through the hub or did it also need its own hub?
LIFX bulbs connect directly to WiFi. One of the main reasons I went with them going on 4 years ago. Zero issues here.
@@TechWinnerCC perfect to hear! My globe smart bulbs are also Wifi.
For the purposes of what I built here, SmartThings is key.
This doesn't work for me, but I wasn't able to fully follow what you setup exactly either.
Did you connect both your Lutron and LIFX accounts to SmartThings?
@@TechWinnerCC That's what I was missing! Good call. SmartThings was getting the Lutron devices through Google Home, so it wasn't able to do the full automation. I needed direct permission between Lutron, LIFX -> SmartThings.
Awesome! I’m glad to help!