The Fatal Flaw of the Lutron Caseta System
I've installed several Lutron switches over the past year—some dimmers, some plug-in dimmers, and a handful of Pico remotes. By and large, I love the product, but there's one fatal flaw which prevents me from ripping out all my old switches and going with Caseta exclusively: It drives me absolutely crazy that the Caseta dimmers don't default to the last dimming level when you turn them on. At least 80% of the time, I use my lights at a somewhat dimmed level. So with the Caseta dimmers, the user has to turn the light on (to 100%) and then manually dim. Every. Single. Time. It boggles the mind that the cheaper Pico remotes (with their middle "favorite" button) have better functionality than the expensive Caseta dimmers. Until they does something about this, I'm saying no to additional Lutron products in my house.
Switch is just for very limited purposes
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Bdscott742
Ha, I don't know how I haven't heard of this until now. I do notice, however, that on Amazon, one of these units currently costs almost twice as much as the more standard dimmer (without the middle button). Why would that be?
I, too, hadn't known of this switch, and surprisingly learned that its been around for some time. I was looking for the ability to schedule a Caseta Dimmer switch to come on and off at the same dim level everyday and can't figure out how to do so. Then I came across this thread and still don't know that with this switch that I could so schedule on and off at a preset dimming level. I'm still puzzled??After studying the use and application of this particular switch, I've preliminarily concluded 4 things: (1) this switch isn't needed for the general applications that the Caseta line was intended for, so best to skip it (2) its application is for higher wattage and special electronic situations that most will never need, (3) this is crazy expensive, (4) major flaw is labelling or putting this in the Caseta category or product group, which heretofore had be for products NOT requiring a Neutral line. This "looks and feels" like a Caseta, but it doesn't seem to "fit" as such.This product had been around for sometime but had quietly peculiarly been in the background as it has limited utility for most people. Am I wrong?