[Shop-talk] Looking to automate fan with remote pressure pad switch

[John Miller]

On 2/7/2019 12:39 PM, Jeff Scarbrough via Shop-talk wrote:
> This would be easy with some simple Arduino/Raspberry Pi stuff.  You
> could add a trigger for disco lights or soothing music too...maybe a
> scent dispenser...

Check out the Lutron Caseta stuff.  Plug-in switches/dimmers and remotes 
with all kinds of functions.

Our house has a big old $30K Lutron Homeworks Interactive lighting 
control system, basically three or four generations old at this point. 
Picked up a Hubitat Elevation.  My software project for the next few 
weeks (months...) is to figure out how to make it talk to the big 
Lutron.  They have something for the newer plutocratic Homeworks 
systems, and it talks to the Caseta stuff beautifully, but not the old 
creaky pre-Dreadnought versions.

Gradually turning our house into a Caseta/Z-wave test lab in addition to 
the old Lutron.

John.