Something that always bugged be about Insteon was the poor reliability of some products. Like most here, I've gone through several controllers and also several of the multi-button wall switches. They just don't hold up to regular use. This is causing me to look at Lutron Caseta as a solution since I perceive their reliability to be better. Am I right in thinking this?
I have noticed that the Lutron system does not offer the same level of control and button choices as did Insteon. I really like the multi-button Insteon switches that not only can send commands to multiple devices with individual button control, they also directly switch a fairly high current load. I see nothing the the Lutron universe that can do anything like this unless you go with RadioRA which I am not prepared to do.
My plan is to start small with a couple switches and the Smart Bridge. then as Insteon stuff fails I'll try to replace with Lutron. Unless my Insteon controller fails there's no real reason to start arbitrarily replacing units. Of course this will make my system more complicated to maintain which is an issue for my wife. She rightly points out that if I kick the bucket, she won't be able to fix any problems that arrive and will end up sitting alone in the dark with no TV. As much as I love Indigo, if I were not here to explain it's fairly complicated setup in my home, an outside automation tech coming in would have a lot of trouble figuring things out.
When you have dependents, sometimes a home automation hobby is not in their best interest long term.