Lutron Pico Light Controller

Use your Lutron 3-Button with Raise/Lower Pico Remote to dim lights and store favorites

Installation

This app is best installed using HACS, so that you can easily track and download updates.

Alternatively, you can download the pico_control directory from inside the apps directory here to your local apps directory, then add the configuration to enable the pico_control module.

How it works

This app responds to button presses on the Lutron 3-Button with Raise/Lower Pico Remote to turn on or off lights, dim lights up or down, and store/retrieve a "favorite" setting.

You can pass either a single light entity or a group that contains dimmable lights. Development Note: An attempt was made to allow for a comma-separated list of lights, but limitations with async programming in Appdaemon made the dimming action insufficiently performant.

Using the "favorites" feature is optional. If you provide an input_number, this will be used to store the current brightness level when long pressing the center button. A short press will use this value to set the lights to that brightness level. If you do not provide an input_number, the center button will set the lights to 50% brightness by default.

When controlling a group of lights, their average brightness will be calculated and used as a starting point when a dimming action begins.

App configuration

pico_control:
  module                       : pico_control
  class                        : PicoControl
  sensor                       : sensor.pico0
  entity                       : light.bulb0
  input_number                 : input_number.pico0_favorite
  min_brightness               : 25
  max_brightness               : 255
  dim_delay                    : 0.05
  dim_interval                 : 5
  favorite_long_press_duration : 3

key	optional	type	default	description
module	False	string		pico_control
class	False	string		PicoControl
sensor	False	string		Pico switch to monitor
entity	False	string		The light or light group to control
input_number	True	string		An input_number used to store a favorite brightness persistently
min_brightness	False	number		Minimum bulb brigtness
max_brightness	False	number		Maximum bulb brigtness
dim_delay	True	number	0.05	The seconds to wait between each incremental brightness change while dimming
dim_interval	True	number	5	The incremental change in brightness while dimming
favorite_long_press_duration	True	number	3	Number of seconds the favorite button must be held to qualify as a "long press"

Issues/Feature Requests

Please submit issues and feature requests using Github issues. Some features I've considered include:

• The ability to optionally pass an action to trigger when hitting the center button
• Storing the individual brightness and state of lights and switches in a group to favorites, not just the average brightness
• Support for other Lutron Pico remote types

Contributing

PRs are welcome! If you add or change how configuration parameters work, please update the validations to ensure that misconfigurations are reported.