So is Lutron.. always with the plausible deniability! 
I think @aaiyar got some really crazy range from his setup once.. but I can't remember the exact details.
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The longest distance I know was when the original Wink hub was being tested. They picked up a Pico reproducibly from 200+ ft away (open air). I knew one of the hardware designers well - and he loves telling that story.
I have used mine from 3-4 townhouses away - so about 100-120 ft going through several walls.
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Wow.... When I had my hub in the basement I had issues pairing on the second floor and that was maybe 20 odd feet and very little interference... Once I moved it to the center of the house it's been fine... (I have no metal pipes and only some duct work in between where it was and where I was pairing)
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For me, one word:
Picos!!! Picos, picos, picos!! (OK, that was four words, but they're all the same.) 
If you have a use/need for buttons, Picos are descended from the heavens, created in the forges of the gods, and thankfully provided (likely by Prometheous) to we mere mortals.
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What do you or your neighbors have in the 400-450 MHz spectrum?
I don't think I have anything... Neighbors likely nothing. (half of them are renters) I don't have any wave scanner to really check though. Hell. I'm the only one on our block with a doorbell cam
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Maybe a (hidden) Cell Tower near you? Some LTE Bands cover that range I think.
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Newbie question here. How do I setup a Pico remote to control something that is non-Lutron? For example: I have a GE outdoor switch that I want to control with a Pico. When I go into "Button Manager" it only gives me the option of using the Pico to control the Lutron switches.
That shouldn’t be the case. As far as Hubitat is concerned, once your Lutron bridge and its associated devices are integrated with Hubitat, picos are like any other button device.
Can you confirm you’re using the built-in button controller app (there is no “button manager”)? And that the GE switch is paired to Hubitat, manually controllable from the device’s settings page?
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I think you've done this, but just to be sure of the basics - you've added your Lutron hub to HE, and added your Picos following these intstructions, correct?
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I got it working. When I integrated the device initially, for some reason it listed the type as "device". I changed that to the appropriate "GE 40 Amp Smart Switch". After that it appeared as an option to control with that Pico (under button controller, not "button manager" as I made up in the previous post 
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Now does anyone know how to set a Pico to mute a wife? (Not that I would want to do this. I'm just asking for a friend.)
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Funny story - she just posted in the lounge about wanting a button that will stop her husband from "...buying any more of that junk!"
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No, that was your wife that posted.
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Dammit...
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