Hi all -
As an advanced DIY person I've tentatively decided to move from a mix of Zwave and Caseta to all RA2. The Caseta aesthetics just don't work for our family and Zwave isn't fast/reliable enough. The hardest decision is to choose between Select and Essentials.
We have a SmartThings hub that does a lot of things well. We have Apple TVs that also do things well. We have Amazon Echo devices that do things well too. Select works with all 3, Essentials 2 of 3. And note that Select Picos can be programmed past native capability in SmartThings if one wants to run a Raspberry Pi server. But I also see some potential value to our use cases of keypads over Picos.
Cost is not a major issue. But the Lutron upgrade paths seem to be unnecessarily complicated and labor-intensive. I'd 100% rather pay for an environment upgrade than have to take out all Caseta dimmers at 1 time to replace with all Maestro dimmers.
Does anyone have any wisdom WRT similar upgrade paths?
Thanks!