Lutron RadioRA 2 + HWQS App

Lutron Electronics Co., Inc.

About this app

Control your home's lights, shades, temperature, keypads, and more with your Android handset and tablet.

This app requires a Lutron total home control system (RadioRA® 2 or HomeWorks® QS) programmed using the appropriate version of design and programming software along with the Lutron Connect Bridge.*

Features:

Control from anywhere
Control lights, shades, temperature, keypads, and more in the comfort of your home or from anywhere in the world – the office, the airport, the beach – set your home to a comfortable temperature when returning from a trip, ensure lights aren't left on and shades aren't left open while you're away.

Personalize your keypad buttons
Add, edit, and remove button settings on your own. Make temporary adjustments for special occasions, or permanent changes to match your preferences.

Right on schedule
Schedule scenes to happen automatically at set times of day, or based on sunrise and sunset. Turn on your porch light at dusk, turn it off at dawn, or open your shades in the morning to wake up with the sun.

Geofencing
Receive a notification if you’ve left the lights on after leaving home, then turn them off right from your Widget (Phone only).

Low Battery
Receive low battery indications for battery-powered shades, Pico wireless controls, and Radio Powr Savr sensors to know when it's time to replace the batteries.

Widget
Set your favorite scenes from your home screen using a Widget. No need to launch the app (Phone only).

World Class Support
Lutron remains committed to providing you with world class quality and service.
Contact us at our 24/7 hotline [phone]).

* Design and programming software is available only to qualified installers and is required for initial setup of this application. This application is only compatible with RadioRA 2 (10.0+) and HomeWorks QS (10.0+) and requires the Lutron Connect Bridge. Contact your Lutron dealer for more information.

When using Arriving/Leaving options (geofencing), your device's battery optimization settings may prevent the app from connecting to your system when the screen is off. The app will help you resolve this automatically, or you can go to Android Settings > Battery > Battery optimization, then under "All apps" set Lutron to "Don't optimize".

Ratings and reviews

RadioRA2 is less good than Caseta. The more expensive system doesn't let me issue Alexa commands by room, e.g., "turn off the kitchen lights" - but the cheaper one does. You also can't make scenes without having keypads. That's extremely silly. Basically this system is abandonware. The only reason I didn't stick with Caseta is that I was concerned about hitting the fifty device limit in a larger home. Otherwise everything about it is superior.

Need to be able to group shades to allow Google assistant to close the group with one command (like, "close dining room shades"). When providing Google Assistant command I to often get image search results. Devices don't show up with controllable access in the Google Home app. All the documents I have found for Google Assistant setup are off an old UI the at isn't relevant now so they are not helpful.

Used to work, lately (Dec 2019), it does not realise my lights are on/off unless I go through each switch individually. I used to get a list of all lights that were on and was able to turn them off from there. UPDATE I uninstalled and reinstalled and it seems to be working again. If it works as it used to, it's a 5* rating. Fingers crossed.

What's new

Bugfixes and Improvements including fixing a crash on older Android versions and application responsiveness