PicoBlaster | Interfacing Pico Keypad with ESP8266 to bypass

PicoBlaster is a C++ library typically used in Internet of Things (IoT), Arduino applications. PicoBlaster has no bugs, it has no vulnerabilities and it has low support. You can download it from GitHub.

Lutron makes amazing lighting control hardware, but their artificial limitations on their Caseta line of products is horribly unfriendly to consumers. Everything speaks the same RF protocol, but they've crippled the Caseta Smart Hub to disallow any non-Caseta branded hardware. The PicoBlaster is a hardware + software project to interface a Pico Keypad with a ESP8266 module, such that any Lutron device compatible with the Pico can be controlled over wifi. Lutron has dozens if not hundreds of devices compatible with the Pico that are artificially forbidden from communicating with the Lutron Smart Bridge Pro. They want you to buy identical hardware with a fancy label like RadioRA2 and pay $$$$ for an installer. Lame. Instead, buy the hardware on Ebay, pair it with a Pico remote, and interface it to a ESP8266. Can be used to control RadioRA2 dimmers, PowPaks, and any other device compatible with the Pico. The pico back case needs to be removed for the modifications, but the front face and original functionality remain unaffected. WifiManager + fauxmoESP + FauxmoESP fork + Custom Sketch. FauxmoESP 3 has some weird bugs that crash the ESP on ESP Core 2.4.0. Dimming - because the Pico does not know the state of the target device and only has the ability to send incremental DIM UP or DIM DOWN signals, I have implemented dimming to either turn it on fully or turn it off fully, and then simulate holding DIM UP / DIM DOWN for a length of time to approximate the behaviour of setting a specific dim level / percentage. This works quite well for lighting dimmers, but could be dangerous for things like Shades/Blinds. If you are exclusively using the PicoBlaster, remembering the state and avoiding this would be trivial. However, I assume you are using local control and/or additional Picos so this is not enabled. Perhaps this can be implemented as an optional feature later. Watchdog functionality - if the ESP crashes, the watchdog does not reliably resume the firmware. This is very rare but needs fixing. Customizable name + dimming parameters as a part of wifimanager config. Trigger Pico pairing function from ESP. Pico reverse engineering: Firmware tampering or SPI Man-in-the-middle TI CC1150 based devices to masquerade as Caseta dimmers. Stay tuned. Try to gain access to the UART on the SI4010 chip.