Bricked Wink as a Lutron Bridge?

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Hey all, Wink refugee here. Please grant me some leeway, my HE is still in the mail, so I have plenty of dumb questions. I’m just realizing that unlike Wink, HE (and apparently every other hub but a defunct staples one?) needs a bridge to talk to Caseta lights. Is that correct? Any chance the Wink could be jail broken to do the job? (Clearly by someone smarter than me).

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I'd love to be wrong in this BUT.. I'd say no, not in our lifetime. Certainly not on the timeline you'd be favorable to. :slight_smile: I thought the same about my old StaplesConnect (D-Link) hub...

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Unfortunately no. Hubitat needs a Lutron Caseta Pro bridge, or a RadioRA2/RA select repeater to interface with Lutron devices. It uses a telnet connection that those Lutron bridges offer.

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Thanks. A follow up if you don’t mind; I have two Casetas and their Pico remotes. Looks like I can get a third pair and the hub for maybe $80. Any thoughts on whether that’s good money after bad (ie ditch them now for z-wave), or bite the bullet and get the bridge?

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The why's and how's.

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Make sure that deal includes the Caseta Pro Bridge (part number L-BDGPRO2-WH). The regular Caseta bridge does not integrate with Hubitat (it doesn't have the telnet interface Hubitat needs)

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Thank you! I almost certainly would have made that mistake.

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Thank you

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This is the cheapest that I've seen recently:

If you need a smart bridge pro and another dimmer, this would be a decent deal:

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The extra dimmer and Pico does make it feel a little more palatable. Pretty attached to the Lutron, as the Pico made a faux three-way setup for both my living room and dinning room, both of which have two entrances but only one wired switch.

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All the lighting inside my house is Lutron Caseta. I really like it. Fast, reliable.

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Yeah, I’ll probably end up keeping them, but still feeling the burn from the HE price hike, haha.

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It is what it is. This sure isn't a cheap "hobby". FWIW, I paid that much ($129) for my first Hubitat (early 2019) and $75 for the second one in August 2019.

But my house is so different than it was with Wink. I literally have almost no need to touch light switches any more. And about the only interaction I have with Alexa (vis-a-vis the home) is to say "Goodnight", which sets off an automation.

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Yeah, I’m looking forward to it. I’ll forget the price as soon as it gets here, speaking of which

Alexa, where’s my stuff?

Friggen covid, messing up my 2 day shipping!

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