Lutron, explained by Lutron.

Every video here is Lutron Electronics's own, on their channel, chosen because a client in one of our houses has asked us the question it answers. The note under each one is ours.

The Lutron app

• 3:37

  Lighting Designer mode in the Lutron app

  The part of the app that sets levels and scenes on RadioRA 3 and HomeWorks. If you want to change what Dinner does without calling us, this is where.

• 2:31

  RadioRA 3, in two minutes

  What the system in the wall actually is, from the people who make it. Useful before a visit, or for the person in the house who was not there when it went in.

• 1:30

  Tunable white light

  Why a bedroom at nine at night should not be the colour of an office at noon, and how the system follows the day.

Older houses on Lutron Connect

• 1:50

  Timeclock in Lutron Connect

  Schedules on RadioRA 2 and HomeWorks QS: the exterior at sunset, the path lights off at midnight, the kitchen low by eleven.

• 1:41

  Arriving and leaving home

  Geofencing: the house notices the phone coming up the drive and brings the lights up before the door opens.

• 3:07

  Voice control

  Alexa, Google and Siri on a Lutron Connect system. Worth two minutes if there is a speaker in the kitchen and nobody has told it about the lights.

• 1:22

  Editing a keypad

  Changing what a button does. If a keypad still says what the previous owner wanted, this is the fix, and we can do it remotely if you would rather.

• 2:45

  HomeGlance

  The one screen that shows what is on across the whole house. The thing to check from bed before deciding whether to go downstairs.

Keypads

• 1:05

  Palladiom keypad

  The glass and metal keypad on a short demo. What the backlight does, how the engraving reads, and why it has no visible screws.

• 1:51

  The Sunnata family

  The keypad in most of our RadioRA 3 houses. Satin finishes, a light bar, and what the touch dimmer does that a paddle does not.

Shades

• 2:37

  Replacing shade batteries

  Honeycomb, roller and wood blinds. A year or more between changes; this is what the change looks like when it comes.

• 3:14

  Programming battery shades

  Setting the open and closed limits and pairing a Pico. If a shade stops a few inches short, the limit has drifted and this fixes it.

• 1:22

  Palladiom wire-free shades

  Battery shades that look hard-wired, for the finished house that was never wired for them.

• 2:38

  Wood blinds on RadioRA 3

  Triathlon automated wood blinds and how they join the lighting system, for the rooms that want slats rather than fabric.