So I had to re-route some wires so I shutdown the Hubitat Hub and unplugged the Lutron Smart Bridge Pro. When I plugged everything back in, non of my Pico remotes were working. I checked and the IP address is the same in the lutron app as it is in Hubitat.
If I hit the 'initilize' button on the Device page for Lutron Telnet the Picos will work for a short period and then they stop again. The web UI for the hub is also painfully slow now.
Edit: the Lutron smartphone app is working to control devices tied directly to the lutron hub so it's defintiely the connection between hubitat and the lutron hub...
Ok, I've narrowed it down actually to the Pico remotes that are setup through @stephack 's ABC App. @stephack any ideas? The Pico's that are tied to the built-in Button app are working.
Ok, shortly after I posted the above, I went into one of ABC's Child Apps and it didn't look quite right, was missing the version information at the top. I went into the Parent app and it took a bit to load and then loaded and looked proper with the right version listed. I went back into one of the child apps and then everything started working.
Also, I restored a previous backup of the hub and it's speedy again.
so I hope all is well now. Hopefully this helps anyone else who runs across this issue
Ok, nevermind, I updated the hub to the most recent firmware, as I hadn't done that yet, and now the hub is crawling at a snail's pace and Lutron integration is completely broken again, not just the button apps... Uggh! Way to spend a Canadian Thanksgiving!
Hey, hope things work out for you and stop messing with your hub on a day off especially today
You should open up the Lutron smartapp on HE and click done. Hopefully that will refresh thing and get thing going again.
I find whenever I have a problem with lan devices. HE will bend out of shape.
Yes I wish I would have never rearranged the cables. That's what started this all and I would have left it but half of our lights aren't working now and my wife is losing her mind and threatening to rip the hub out of the wall... Definitely a brutal way to spend thanksgiving. Makes you want to just rip it all our yourself and go back to simple light switches that just work...
Tried going into the Lutron App a half dozen times unfortunately... THanks for the suggestion though.
Do you have reserved IP's for the HE hub and the Lutron Bridge?
After rebooting you can also try to disable as many apps as possibke including ABC and the Lutron app so at least the hub will be stable enough to troubleshoot.
I don't have reseved IPs but I checked and the IP addresses are the same in the Lutron smartphone app and the hubitat lutraon app. Going to restore the backup that worked before and startover from there. Disable some apps to I guess. Ugh.
I'd highly recommend you use reserved IP addresses for both the Lutron bridge and HE. It will save you from troubleshooting a bunch of broken automations if your DHCP router decides to assign different address to the Caseta Pro Bridge at some point of time.
Ok I'll look into how to assign static IPs for both.
Is it possible that generic Micro Cable ran alongside some other power cables could have been causing all the problems? I moved the hub back to it's original power source and it seems to be running faster and lutron is working again....
You would need to configure reserved IP's via your router as there is no way that I know of to set a static ip on the HE hub itself.
I would consider this more than a recommendation or best practice. I think it is ESSENTIAL that you set reserved IP's on the devices you have integrated with HE. Even if you get this resolved today, you may run into mayhem again on your next reboot/update.
Thanks for checking in @Navat604. Things are working at the moment although I'm not sure why they are working and weren't earlier.
All I did was run a longer Micro USB cable back behind a cabinet and along some other 120v wires to hide the cables better. I had to unplug the hub after safely shutting it down and then when it powered up again, it was painfully slow (both the automations and the web UI) and nothing Lutron worked. Then just my Picos setup through StepHack's ABC app weren't working but the onese through the stock Hubitat Button Controller worked. I opened apps and hit the done button, restarted the Lutron SmartBridge and eventually things were working but the UI was still super slow. I thought maybe updating the firmware would clean things up a bit and get the UI working snappy again but that didn't work, I think it was actually worse. Then I realized that everything started when I moved to the longer Micro USB power cable and routed it differently. So I restored to a previous backup that was working good and used a better quality cable and routed it clear of any other cables and then magically, the UI was snappy again and Lutron devices were working.
So I really don't know what the issue was. Could it have been electrical interference on a poor quality micro USB power cord causing all this grief? Seems coincidental to me as I can't imagine that causing all those issues.
I'm nervous to touch anything though as everything is working well. However, I'm on an older version firmware and will have to upgrade at some point. Will be nervous to do it though.
I've since reserved IP addresses for both the Hub and the Lutron Smartbridge so hopefully that helps with any reboots later on.
