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Cool - Strato V supports Lutron lighting & shades triggers!

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Hadn't seen this discussed anywhere yet, but just noticed in the webUI settings that the Strato V in standalone mode can support integration with Lutron RadioRa3 for triggering lighting scenes!

Happens to be very relevant to me, as my main home with my big Kaleidescape system has RadioRa2 for lighting control, however my vacation house that just got a shiny new Strato V (standalone) has a full RadioRa3 system, so i can finally trigger those cool lighting scenes directly from Kaleidescape at movie-start, credits-role, intermission, pause, etc.
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If anyone's interested I was able to solve the issue with main house that has RadioRa 2 by using HomeAssitant running on an HA Green to grab the Kaleidescape events and then trigger Lutron RadioRa2 scenes and it works great, but somewhat of a kludge.

Here are a few shots of what it looks like once you activate the Kaleidescape and Lutron integrations in HA:

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It works great... but it's a shame Kaleidescape can't just offer this for the larger base of RadioRa2 users like they did for the new RadioRa3 processor.
 
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FWIW if you’re using Home Assistant this type of automation can be performed with ANY smart lighting that is compatible with Home Assistant. I’m currently using a mix of Hue, Govee and Lutron lighting in the theater alone, plus some other things.
 
HA is pretty awesome, i must say. There's a learning curve to get it to do what you want, but integrations like this make it super useful. Can do things with your devices and services that you may not have thought possible or easy.
 
josh said:
Hadn't seen this discussed anywhere yet, but just noticed in the webUI settings that the Strato V in standalone mode can support integration with Lutron RadioRa3 for triggering lighting scenes!

Happens to be very relevant to me, as my main home with my big Kaleidescape system has RadioRa2 for lighting control, however my vacation house that just got a shiny new Strato V (standalone) has a full RadioRa3 system, so i can finally trigger those cool lighting scenes directly from Kaleidescape at movie-start, credits-role, intermission, pause, etc.
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If anyone's interested I was able to solve the issue with main house that has RadioRa 2 by using HomeAssitant running on an HA Green to grab the Kaleidescape events and then trigger Lutron RadioRa2 scenes and it works great, but somewhat of a kludge.

Here are a few shots of what it looks like once you activate the Kaleidescape and Lutron integrations in HA:

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It works great... but it's a shame Kaleidescape can't just offer this for the larger base of RadioRa2 users like they did for the new RadioRa3 processor.
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RA3 has a completely different integration API than RA2. Likely didn’t want to go down the older Telnet path….
 
thrillcat said:
FWIW if you’re using Home Assistant this type of automation can be performed with ANY smart lighting that is compatible with Home Assistant. I’m currently using a mix of Hue, Govee and Lutron lighting in the theater alone, plus some other things.
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@thrillcat send you a PM.
 
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