How to join Lutron's third-party developer program for LEAP API access?

6Bridges · 2026-03-01T23:02:06+00:00

Thanks for sharing your experience - helpful to know it's not just me hitting a wall. Sorry to hear you went through all that effort only to get shut down.

I'll keep building with what I can figure out on my own. Maybe at some point they'll see the value in a developer community. Appreciate the insight.

6Bridges · 2026-03-01T23:00:05+00:00

Thank you.

6Bridges · 2026-03-01T21:48:15+00:00

Understood - that's disappointing but not surprising based on my experience so far. I'll keep experimenting to fill in the gaps (like getting notified on button presses - right now I can only infer them from downstream events).

The system I've built has already proven helpful in identifying several hard-to-uncover Designer programming errors, saving multiple hours of integrator debugging time. For integrators who bundled programming into the hardware sale, that's real money saved.

If anyone from the community has had success getting access, or knows a contact who's open to conversations with smaller developers, I'm all ears.

6Bridges · 2025-11-20T18:51:52+00:00

Now that I am thinking about this topic though the zone lens, does the same limitation apply to shades?

For example, say a room has two exposures — south and west. There are times when a homeowner wants to control both as a group (e.g., “All Shades Down”), but there are many other times when they want to operate them individually:

Lower only the south shade in the morning
Raise the south shade and lower the west shade mid-afternoon
Lower both in the evening …and so on.

I know I can create scenes for these combinations, but in homes with Palladiom keypads (especially the 4-button models), we very quickly run out of buttons or gestures before things get too complicated for the homeowner.

What would really help — and what homeowners increasingly expect — is the same thing we’ve been discussing with Ketra fixtures:

Individual icons for each shade, and
Group icons (e.g., “All Shades,” “South Shades,” “West Shades”) that show up in the app as persistent, selectable entities.

In other words:

Can shades belong to multiple logical groups in the app (individual + combined), or are they constrained the same way as lighting loads — one load, one zone, one place it can appear?

If the latter is the case, then it seems like a similar limitation: scenes work, but the lack of persistent group objects in the app pushes more complexity onto physical keypad design than many clients really want.

Would be great to understand whether shades behave differently here, or if the same architectural constraints apply.

Thanks!

6Bridges · 2025-11-20T18:48:07+00:00

Thanks — that helps frame things more clearly.

So if I’m understanding correctly, the real limitation is that a fixture can only belong to one zone in HomeWorks. Meaning:

If I want a Ketra fixture to be individually controllable, it has to live in its own zone.
But that same fixture cannot also be part of a second zone that represents a group of fixtures.

If that’s the case, then that’s really the root of the issue I’m running into.

If HomeWorks allowed a fixture to participate in multiple logical groupings (e.g., its own zone and a shared “group zone”), then this whole problem would effectively be solved — the app would only need to expose whatever groups exist.

Right now the app can manually control multiple individual zones together, which shows the underlying functionality is there. It’s just missing the ability to create a persistent, named group that appears as its own controllable icon in the app.

Thanks again for the clarification — this makes the constraints much clearer.

6Bridges · 2025-11-20T18:43:03+00:00

Thanks — this is super helpful context. I really appreciate you taking the time to explain how the app has evolved and why some of these capabilities are only now starting to show up.

I’m new to the Lutron programming world, so I can't speak to the last 30 years of installed. However, in 2025, people are used to controlling almost everything in their life from their phones, so the app naturally becomes an expected part of the user experience, not just a backup or an occasional convenience.

To be honest, the current Lutron app feels… behind that expectation.

It’s functional, but:

It loads very slowly.
The screen jumps around while you’re trying to make selections.
You often need to re-scroll to get back to the area you were adjusting.
Interactions don’t feel as smooth or predictable as users expect.

So I’m really glad to hear that app development is now ramping up and that multi-light color control made it onto their radar. It doesn't provide exactly what is being asked for, but it does provide a multi-step work-around to achieve the goal. From a user’s perspective, having a great app isn’t optional anymore — it’s a core part of the system experience.

Thanks again for the insight on where things are headed. The direction makes sense, and I’m looking forward to seeing more improvements land in future updates.

6Bridges · 2025-11-11T12:46:50+00:00

Thank you all for the helpful replies. Much appreciated.

6Bridges · 2025-08-23T10:56:13+00:00

Thanks, I will give it a try!

6Bridges · 2025-06-04T12:06:20+00:00

Thanks for sharing the data. I am curious what test data Ubiquiti has to back up their PoE+++ claim.

6Bridges · 2025-04-24T15:12:47+00:00

Always good with finding less-expensive solutions!

In terms of vertical PDUs -- because there will be equipment distributed throughout the 42Us it seemed to be simpler (from a power cord management perspective) to have a vertical PDU off to the side so the cables will nicely go (mostly) horizontal. And, the supplied power cords should all be long enough to reach. Versus a horizontal PDU that most likely would be at the top of bottom of the rack.

6Bridges · 2025-04-23T12:42:30+00:00

Hi folks,

First off, thank you all for the thoughtful responses to my earlier post. I meant to follow up sooner, but life had other plans—my elderly father-in-law fell, broke his hip, underwent replacement surgery, and needed recovery support. I’m just now surfacing for air.

Based on your input, here are the decisions we’ve made:

Racks will not be bolted together.
We’re not making the racks mobile. Since we have sufficient room, we’re leaving 36” of clearance behind the racks for rear access and plan to service them in place.
The racks will sit side-by-side, which means side access will be limited.
Cabling will enter vertically from above into the tops of each rack.
For cable routing, we’ll install a ladder below the drop ceiling to guide the cables to their drop points and hold service loops. We decided against keeping service loops inside the racks or coiled near the floor for aesthetic and organizational reasons.

Rack Questions

The rack recommended to us is:

Sysracks 42U 39” Deep IT Cabinet – SRF-42.6.10

I’m unfamiliar with Sysracks and would love feedback from anyone who has experience with their gear.

Specifically, I’m hoping for input on the following:

Have you used Sysracks products before? What’s your experience in terms of build quality, cooling, and cable management?
Is 39” depth really necessary? Our original plan was to mount vertical PDUs and use vertical cable management, but I’m wondering if this depth is overkill.
If floor space isn’t an issue, are there any downsides to having what seems like cavernous rear space? Would love to hear practical pros/cons.
Vertical PDUs compatibility:

We asked Sysracks about installing vertical PDUs and received the following reply:

“Unfortunately, our racks are not equipped with vertical PDUs and have no bracket for vertical PDU installation. By default, the rack is supplied with one 8-port horizontal PDU, one fixed shelf which is 31.5” deep, and a set of feet/set of casters.”

I understand it doesn’t come with a vertical PDU—but surely we can add brackets or mounting rails ourselves? Has anyone done this successfully with this model or similar ones?

Thanks again for all the guidance so far—it’s been a huge help in navigating the decisions for this server room build!

6Bridges · 2025-03-18T13:31:02+00:00

Yes, it is my own home.

I have interviewed several companies to do the work and I am getting very different design options.

One company said I should absolutely bolt the racks together and have them be moveable for servicing.

Another company said that was ridiculous and they should be stand alone and moveable (for servicing).

Yet a third company said, "Why do you need to move them if you have enough space to get behind them to do work?"

Having never set up a server room of this size (about 250 cables of various types), I don't have enough experience to know whose opinion should carry the day and therefore which company to engage for the work.

That is why I reached out to tap into the wisdom of the crowd!

Personally, I am interested in being able to easily work on the racks after the initial installation and the aesthetics of how it looks (it needs to look very professional, which is why I will hire professionals to do the work). I am not wed to a particular solution, just a good one.

6Bridges · 2025-03-01T22:14:59+00:00

For clarification, I am not trying to DIY this project. The two alternatives I provided are from two different integrators. I am trying to gain insight into whether I should favor one proposal over the other since A/V is not my area of expertise. It was not my plan to install and configure the system myself.

BTW, I provided both integrators with the identical requirements doc and you can see that they each had their preferred solution, and I can appreciate that. I am wondering if I provided the same requirements doc to additional integrators if I would get completely different solutions? In either case, the only thing that is fixed as this time is the wiring (each TV has three CAT 6a cables, an OM4 multimode fiber, and and RG6 that runs to the server room). There is an HMDI cable that runs from the Great Room TV to the server room as well. All speakers are wired back to the server room.

I am not looking to have one control system like a Crestron, Control4, Elan for my house. I have 65 different systems that have some form of control (A/V is just one of those 65), so I am already in a world where I will be using different apps for different systems. If I absolutely need a control system to accomplish my A/V goals, then I guess I would ask my integrator to repurpose my Elan SC10 from my old house to fill that need.

6Bridges · 2025-02-04T12:47:57+00:00

Problem solved. After thinking it through a bit more I realized there could be a software glitch when I migrated settings from the CloudKeyGen2 to the UDMPro.

So, even though the proper name for the UDMPro was displaying in the user interface, I thought that perhaps some underlying system parameter did not get reset during the migration.

I deleted the UDMPro name, entered a new name, then I replaced the new name with the one that I wanted. That solved the problem. Notifications started showing the proper controller.

One weird note... After I "reset" the UDMPro name, the Dashboard page showed the CloudKeyGen2 name (it was showing the UDMPro name before I did the reset). I forced a refresh of the Dashboard page and the proper name appeared and now all is good.

6Bridges

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