Just got started with Hubitat moving from Wink. It looks like there have been quite a few questions regarding the Lutron Connect Bulb Remote (LZL-4B), but everyone has said that it does not work. Since this is a Zigbee remote, would it be possible to get native support for this through Hubitat?
Or, has anyone found a way to get their Lutron CBRs working that I am missing? I really do not want to buy a $120 hub to get my $15 remotes to work.
It's a ZLL, not a ZHA remote, many ZLL button controllers do work with Hubitat, but not this one.
It's not possible to support it at this time. I keep mine for resetting ZLL bulbs, nothing works better for that.
Thank you for the swift responses. I guess I am just trying to limit the number of hubs I need. With Wink I just have 1 hub. Now in order to keep my same/similar setup, it would require 2 hubs. Just trying to keep the complexity down for ease of troubleshooting and points of failure.
I'm a Lutron Caséta Smart Bridge Pro owner and have pico remotes and soon a new Caséta fan controller. It's a great system like they say. I'm also a former Wink user and I have 6 LCBRs still in use, but not on Wink. I know people don't want to embrace, or they dislike the idea that you need extra bridges and hubs to get the good stuff, but that's the reality. The Lutron bridges are tiny and power consumption is very low, so it's really a minor inconvenience for the one time you set it up.
I used to have one of my LCBRs connected to Wink. I hated it. So slow, and often didn't work at all for me. I got my Lutron Caséta Smart Bridge Pro when I was still using SmartThings. I built a node.js server to bridge between ST and Lutron. It worked great, but the limit was still the cloud reliability. When I found out Hubitat has the integration built in, I was sold. It's better than what I could do on ST, much better, and as @mike.maxwell says, 100% local.
Now, if you don't know this already, there is a way to make the LCBRs work on a Philips Hue Bridge as dimmers, but not button controllers. This was another selling point of HE, that was the promised (and delivered). Local control of the Hue Bridge.
So the way I use my LCBRs is I have them paired to the bulbs and to the Hue Bridge. This gives me a way to turn on the lights and adjust them with the remotes, even if my Philips Hue Bridge and my Hubitat were to both simultaneously explode. It's not even close to as full featured as the Pico and you can't program them on the Hue Bridge like you can with their own dimmer, but it does work to control the lights and dim. One limitation I'll warn you about with the LCBRs and this method is, you cannot know the state of the bulbs turning on by the switch. You can only monitor the state of the bulbs, and due to the way the Hue API works, you cannot get that update for a minute after the light turns on or off.
I started out with that mind set. I resisted using Hue bulbs and Pico buttons because of the extra hubs and complexity. After dealing with Osram and Cree bulbs for a year I broke down and bought a Hue hub. I tried the Osram button controller (bulky, ugly) and the Hue button (everytime I bragged that it worked it world go offline the next day. Now I have a 5-port Netgear Ethernet switch connected from across the room via a cable sitting on top a book shelf (out of site) with a Lutron and Hue hub attached. My home automations have never been better. No one hub can do it all, the hardware interoperability just isn't there yet. But Hubitat can tie all these "best of class" ecosystems together.
Which hub are you talking about? I have 4 CBR's and have yet been able to connect to them to Lutrons SmartBridge Pro. Maybe I'm doing something wrong...