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

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

Lots of great advice in this thread. Thanks for all the suggestions.

The cable management is porn-like

Rip it all out and go with a traditional circuit breaker panel.

Rip it out and replace with KNX.

That’s what I had to do with my Lutron installation.

They are notorious for obsoleting their lines. 10 years after my system was installed there were zero replacement wall panel/switches available anywhere in the world.

KNX is an open system that remains backwoods compatible.

KNX plus Home Assistant is rock solid.

This wont offer help in the slightest way sorry, but this picture immediately brings to mind the scene in one of the original 80s superman films where a person falls/is pulled into a cupboard on the side of a cave-sized supercomputer and comes back out as a remote controlled android.

Id be forever wary of standing in the doorway looking at this, expecting to get a shove from the smart hoover from behind and being rewired against my will.

Then again if i was integrated directly into HA i wouldn’t need to hang decommissioned tablets on the wall so my partner would probably prefer that.

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

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

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.

IDK but my tech spidy sense is tingling.

Easy! That’s an old Lutron homework’s system. You should have a main repeater and a small box called a BDG2 (3”x3”x1.5”, could be white or black. Both must have Ethernet connections. You download the Lutron app. Select homeworks, fallow the step, it will ask you to press a button on the bdg2. You can kick the last owner this way. Then it will ask you if you want to add it to HomeKit. You can AMA! Was an integrater for 10 years.

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.

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.

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