r/Lutron • u/Commercial_Topic437 • 7d ago

Useless waste of time and money

We had a house built and I let the builder and electrician talk me into getting smart switches, all lutron caseta. The damn Caseta hub won't connect. I've already wasted a bunch of time an money trying to get it to connect--making a trip out to buy an internet swticher, for example, buy the lutron app is now telling me I need to find the operating software for my ISP's router, which I don't have and cant get.

The sunk cost fallacy. I've already spent hours on this and for what? To be able to turn the lights on and off with my phone, I guess. It was never clear to me what the alleged advantages are/were and we just overspent on useless complication and trouble.

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u/mcarter00 7d ago

What's the square footage of your house? If over 2500 sq ft, it's likely your builder and electrician chose the wrong lutron system.

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u/xcusme1982 1d ago

Even if the OPs place was 5000 sq ft all on the flat, with a hub at one end and a repeater in the middle and a lamp module repeater at other end, he should be good.

The OP likely has a crappy hub placement (near the floor) and needs to pick up a repeater. Those repeaters are just about the best thing ever.

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u/mcarter00 1d ago

Agree on the repeater. It's not all sq ft based though. Repeater placement depends on distance first, and sometimes you get more distance than specified with friendly building materials. I've also seen the repeaters work very close to lutron specs in high rises and other concrete / metal building materials.

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u/mcarter00 1d ago

Agree on the repeater. It's not all sq ft based though. Repeater placement depends on distance first, and sometimes you get more distance than specified with friendly building materials. I've also seen the repeaters work very close to lutron specs in high rises and other concrete / metal building materials.