With the Lutron’s Caseta line of light switches, the lights in your house can be controlled wirelessly – either with a separate “pico” remote control or (more conveniently) with an app on your phone.
0:00 – Intro: Lutron Light Switches
0:28 – “Caseta” Light Switch
1:37 – “Caseta” Wireless Smart Bridge
2:53 – Final thoughts
In order for the Caseta switches to operate properly with your phone, you’ll also have to buy the Caseta Wireless Smart Bridge, which works in conjunction with your wireless router. It’s not hard to install or set up, but it is another step you’ll have to get through if you want to use these switches to their fullest extent.
One great thing about the Caseta light switches is, you can turn your lights on, off, and even set them on a pre-programmed schedule, all from the convenience of your phone – this opens up some pretty cool possibilities.
In this video, I’ll give you a quick overview of the Caseta switches, these are pretty cool too!
Caseta light switches a bit more expensive than the Lutron Maestro line – but they also require some more sophisticated technology to operate. I think this kind of switch can be used more sparingly (and honestly, I don’t think the technology is quite as useful as the Maestro line), but when you do need this kind of thing, it’s a great to have available.
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Thanks for sharing your experience with the Lutron Caseta! I'm looking into different smart light switches, including Lutron Caseta, ecobee Switch+, Brilliant, and Noon Lighting.
Thanks you sold me on these.
I'll save you some time, pointless review he doesn't even show the product
According to Lutron, the maximum number of devices for one Lutron "hub" is 50. It'[s a high limit, but there is a limit.
Why the negativity? I got the overview I was looking for: There's a bridge (mandatory) that connects via your wifi, there's dimming and on/off switches and I'll speculate the wifi bridge transmits a radio signal to the switches so maybe some range consideration (distance from the bridge.) I obtained a good overview in just a few minutes plus some bonus information… I learned how to pronounce "Caseta" Thanks for the video.
good overview and details of how this system works – tells me what I want to know – "humanity's greatest achievment" really dude, we have homelessness, poverty, people starving, wars,… lots of issues that light switches no matter how good don't even come near, I know it is said in jest but still
I have 5 undercounter led's lights for a kitchen I have to put in. They will be on 5 separate switches as it's not practical to wire them all together. My question, is there a wireless system out there that would allow me to either turn them all on and off and/or dim them all from one place?
Good video REtipster. I love the caseta lutron switches too. I have a complete step by step video on my channel on how to install and set up the switches. I also show how to set up the app and the voice commands with alexa which for me is the coolest part. I also moved into a new home and decided to do some smart home automation and the lutron switches were my first purchase. I have the lutron bridge pro but both the regular bridge and the bridge pro can handle up to 75 devices which is plenty for any size home. I have my app set so when I walk into the house the lights turn on. Pretty cool! Thumbs up and I just subscribed!!
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?
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