Did you decide what to do with yours? We just bought a house with HWI as well. I walked through with the electrician and Lutron guys today and I don’t think it will be an inexpensive change. We are doing some remodeling/finishing currently unfinished areas though.

My dad (now elderly) has been into home automation since the 1980s so he has a lot of legacy hardware still running in his system. He’s got a wall that looks like this but it’s a hodgepodge of different pieces, different brands, controlling different things and it’s not as nicely organized. It’s tied into everything. I dread the day I’m going to have to tear it all out to get his house ready to sell.

That’s interactive based on the sticker unless it was changed over to illumination or qs. Pray it is qs, the red ones are the older modules but will still work in qs.

Still have one or two clients on interactive , if it wasn’t converted you better hope there is an up to date file for the system.

If needed I can pull it for you and give you it

Here’s how I’d start to tackle it short of replacing the entire thing.

https://chat.openai.com/share/a2920642-21b1-41df-bf8d-95cbe412c379

I’ve installed the 120V side of a few Crestron systems, looks dam near identical, and I’d say you need a lot, whatever company manufactures those basically owns everything inside. You’d probably have to replace everything in those cabinets except the terminal strips.

Each one of those wires goes to independent lights or groups of lights, last house I did we used about 15x 150m rolls of NMD90 there were around a hundred pulls. Shits expensive and a lot of work and in my opinion wildly pointless. But that’s just a poor man’s opinion.

This looks wild, what would this offer over just a hub and a bunch of switches?

Lutron Homeworks system. See if the integrator that installed it is still around. Likely Homeworks QS or Illumination.

If QS, adding a connect bridge should allow for HomeKit integration

20 years ago I used a java based automation framework to talk to these over serial.

The basic idea is you can emulate any of the physical keypads, and the lutron programmer can add virtual keypads if that’s not enough.

So what Id do is setup a room to lutron ID array and poll the controller for all the labels on the keypad for the room. Then display a virtual keypad with status for each button on a touchscreen. If the lutron programmer ever changed the scenes in a room it would update dynamically in my program as well.

Bees knees, this is what I think of as smart lighting. All the wifi and zigbee stuff is just imitating.

That is a MAJOR score! Nice!!

How big is this? Like 4 feet tall? Looks huge.

I have about the same. I’ve built a plugin to connect directly to the network connector on the processor. Based on that you can get everything working 100% in HomeAssistant. This in turn can expose anything to HomeKit.

Additionally, an advantage by connecting the system with e.g., HA, is that you can get a log of what buttons triggers what dimmers and what the LED updates look like. This means that you can move these to HA instead, if you want, or at least have them recorded should your processor fail.

Bro tear the shit out and get something up to date. Technology is so funny one day new the next obsolete.

The cable management is porn-like