Lutron RadioRA2 With HAI Omnipro II

[scottp73]

Right now I have the Omnipro II with UPB Light switches. I am thinking about switching over to the Lutron RadioRA2. I would like to hear from anyone that has that system and there Thoughts about it.

Reason I am thinking of switching is that REAL Time Status is really important to me. And when I hit two Switches at the same time (Ex. Bathroom Lights & Bathroom Fan) I only get status from one switch and not the other. I know If I wait a second or so the hit the other I do get status.

Does the status work Really well? also does it give true Real time Status on the omni? How Fast is it with the Omni. And any other info that you can give!

Home that its going into is 3200 Sq. Ft. If that helps

Thanks in Advance,

Scott

 

[ControlFreak]

I don't know anything about UPB limitations.
I have Lutron + HAI OmniProII and they work well together.
I'll take a crack at roughly HOW it works, which might give you some confidence in its reliability.

Lutron is very verbose. It broadcasts every change (to button presses, button LEDs, light levels, motion sensors triggered, etc.) Its protocol is well-defined. HAI built a driver based on this protocol.
HAI's RadioRA2 driver listens for broadcasts. You tell HAI which items to listen to (by configuring Units of type RadioRa2 in HAI). And HAI keeps track of those items.

Here is example of what Lutron broadcasts when I press a button on the Lutron Keypad (Device 218) in my office. Notes to the far right are my annotations

Thursday, November 1 2012 at 08:54:33 - ~DEVICE,218,1,4 ( button #1 pressed)
Thursday, November 1 2012 at 08:54:33 - ~OUTPUT,96,1,40.00 (light#96 set on to 40% based on my lutron programming for button 1)
Thursday, November 1 2012 at 08:54:33 - ~OUTPUT,97,1,25.00 (at same time, based on same button press, light #97 set on to 25%)
Thursday, November 1 2012 at 08:54:33 - ~DEVICE,218,81,9,1 (state of LED 1 on this keypad changed to ON)
Thursday, November 1 2012 at 08:54:40 - ~DEVICE,218,19,3 (raise button pressed)
Thursday, November 1 2012 at 08:54:40 - ~DEVICE,218,19,4 (raise button released)
Thursday, November 1 2012 at 08:54:40 - ~OUTPUT,96,1,45.00 (light 96 increased to 45%)
Thursday, November 1 2012 at 08:54:40 - ~OUTPUT,97,1,29.70 (light 97 increased to 29.7%)
etc.

In this particular example, I am not involving HAI. I'm just copying/pasting the terminal output from Lutron. This is what HAI sees as input.

Notice time stamps of hh:mm:ss multiple things happening the same second.

I don't use HAI to track status as much as you seem to want to, but I haven't had a problem with HAI keeping up. Even at just 9600 baud on the RS232 connection (IP connection not supported by HAI), lots of communication can happen. I think HAI buffers inbound broadcasts. Perhaps in theory with a big house and if you issue an "All Off" command, that MIGHT overload HAI's buffer. You'd have to ask HAI about any such technical/practical limits.

see also HAI knowledge base for RadioRa2 note
see also Lutron for "Integration Protocol"

Good Luck.