Lutron Pico & Keypads
Control where you want it: Pico remotes on a ten-year coin cell, the 4-Group remote, and engraved keypads that replace a wall of switches with scenes. Paired, engraved and programmed by our own Lutron-trained team from Miami to Palm Beach.
The Pico remote, the 4-Group remote, the engraved keypads, and what a scene is
Apps are fine; buttons are better. The Lutron Pico is a slim wireless remote on a coin cell that pairs to a shade in ten seconds from the Shade Button, works from 30 ft, and mounts to a wall plate or a tabletop pedestal without cutting a hole or running a wire; the three-button shade Pico lists at about $32. Above it sit the engraved keypads, Sunnata on RadioRA 3, seeTouch and GRAFIK T on the older systems, Palladiom in matching metals for HomeWorks, where one press runs a scene: the shades, the drapery and the lights of a room, or a floor, together. Between the two is the hub or processor that makes the app, the schedules and the voice assistants possible.
We pair every Pico, engrave every keypad for the rooms it controls and program every scene before we leave, on a Lutron system we supply or on one the house already has.
- Price, at Lutron list: Pico PJ2-3BRL about $32.40; Caséta Smart Bridge Pro about $180; RadioRA 3 processor kit about $549. Our published Lutron shade figures carry a Pico per opening and the hub or processor once per house; the Lutron Price Builder shows each as its own line.
- Where we installed them: an engraved keypad on the wall of every room in six Turks and Caicos villas, a Palladiom keypad in every room of the Fort Lauderdale estate, Picos on fourteen Triathlon shades in Boca Raton, a Lutron keypad in every room and not one remote at Landmark Ranch Estates.
- Who we are: Exotic Shades & Draperies holds a direct Lutron shading account with Lutron Residential Systems (September 2026) and Lutron's LCI Full Shades Qualification Training certificate (April 2026); the same in-house team measures, installs and programs every Lutron project and services Lutron systems installed by others.
The controls, from a Pico to a Palladiom keypad #
What each one is, what it moves, and whether it needs a hub.
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| Control | What it is | What it runs | Needs a hub? |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pico remote (shades) | Slim wireless remote on a coin cell: open, close, raise, lower and a favorite position; Lutron rates the battery at about ten years. Wall plate, pedestal or in hand. Model PJ2-3BRL, about $32.40 at Lutron list. | One shade or a group of Triathlon, Serena, Palladiom Wire-Free or Sivoia QS Wireless shades paired directly; any Lutron shade once it is on a system | No. Pairs to the shade itself from the Shade Button, and keeps working if the internet drops |
| Wood-blind Pico | The Pico for Serena and Triathlon wood blinds: View, Favorite, Privacy, Jog-Open and Jog-Closed. | The tilt of one blind or a group; the lift is by hand from the bottom rail | No |
| 4-Group RF remote | Lutron's shade remote with four group buttons (CS-YJ-4GC-WH, CS-YK-4GC-WH), paired like a Pico but holding a group button. | Up to four groups of shades from one remote | No |
| Lutron app on a Caséta hub | The standard Caséta hub (L-BDG2-WH) runs Serena; the Smart Bridge Pro (L-BDGPRO2-WH, about $180 at list) is required for Triathlon and Palladiom Wire-Free. Up to 75 devices per hub. | Schedules, sunrise and sunset events, scenes with Caséta lighting, control away from home, Alexa, Google Home and Apple Home | This is the hub |
| Sunnata keypads | RadioRA 3's wall keypads, set up in Lutron Designer by the dealer; the owner runs scenes and schedules in the Lutron app. | Lights, shades and drapery on a RadioRA 3 processor (up to 200 Lutron devices per processor, about $549 at list for the processor kit) | RadioRA 3 processor |
| seeTouch and GRAFIK T keypads | Lutron's engraved keypads for RadioRA 2 and HomeWorks QS, wall or tabletop, programmed in Lutron Designer. | Scenes across lights, shades and drapery; shade groups and presets | RadioRA 2 or HomeWorks |
| Palladiom keypads | The architectural keypad in metal and glass finishes matched to the Palladiom shades and thermostat, for HomeWorks. | Whole-home scenes; every treatment in the Fort Lauderdale estate answers one | HomeWorks |
| Wired QS keypads | Keypads on the QS link beside wired Sivoia QS shades, assigned from the keypad; presets saved by holding a button. | Sivoia QS wired shades and drapery, stand-alone or inside a system | No processor needed stand-alone; a QSM or QS Wireless receiver brings a Pico to a wired shade |
The Pico: how it pairs, what it does, where it lives #
Lutron's remote is the reason a battery shade works on day one, with nothing else in the house.
Pairing takes ten seconds: tap the Shade Button on the shade so it lights solid green, then hold Close on the Pico until the Shade Button flashes. If the light goes out within a second the shade is already in a Lutron system, and the Pico is added in the Lutron app or, on RadioRA 3 and HomeWorks, in Lutron Designer. One Pico can run several shades, several Picos can run one shade, and a favorite position is saved by holding the center button; the top and bottom limits of a Triathlon, Serena or Palladiom Wire-Free shade are adjusted from the Pico too. Range is about 30 ft, the coin cell lasts about ten years on Lutron's rating, and a reset is a triple-tap and hold.
Where it lives is the design question. A wall plate by the bed, a pedestal on the nightstand, loose on the sofa table: the Pico mounts anywhere without cutting a hole or running a wire, so the bedroom gets its blackout button where the hand lands in the dark, and the living room gets one by the door. Fourteen Triathlon shades in the Boca Raton home run this way, each room with its own Pico, the house on the Lutron app and Siri through a Caséta Smart Bridge Pro. The full steps, the blink codes and the channel-change note are on the Lutron programming guide.
What a scene is, and where it is made #
A scene is one button that sets many things at once. Which things, and who writes it, depends on the system.
Caséta
The owner, in the app
With the Smart Bridge Pro, scenes and schedules are built in the Lutron app: Morning raises the sheers and brings up the kitchen lights, Away drops every shade at noon in July. Sunrise and sunset events follow the calendar. Alexa, Google Home and Apple Home run the same scenes by voice.
RadioRA 3
The dealer, in Lutron Designer
Scenes, shade groups, keypad engravings and the timeclock are built in Lutron Designer, which Lutron releases to trained professionals; the owner then edits scenes and schedules in the Lutron app. Sunnata keypads on the wall carry the scenes; up to 200 Lutron devices per processor.
HomeWorks QS and QSX
The dealer, at estate scale
Up to sixteen processors and gateways, 32 links and 10,000 zones per system, with Palladiom, seeTouch and GRAFIK T keypads and the Palladiom thermostat. Good night closes the bedrooms and Morning opens the sheers at the Ritz-Carlton Residences Miami Beach; one press moves fourteen walls of glass on Hillsboro Mile.
myRoom
Hospitality, one plate per room
Lutron's guestroom system: scene, fan and shade buttons on one engraved plate at the door and the bed. Six villas on Big Ambergris Cay run every blackout and Roman this way on myRoom XR, hard-wired, with nothing to pair and no battery to change.
Two details decide whether a scene feels right. Shade groups: in RadioRA 3 and HomeWorks the shades of one wall are grouped so they start and stop together, with Intelligent Hembar Alignment holding the bottom bars within 1/8 in; in a Crestron house that pairs with Lutron, those groups stay in Lutron Designer. And the keypad engraving: a button that says Entertain gets pressed, a button that says Zone 3 does not. We write the scene list with the client at the walkthrough and engrave from it.
The hub or processor in the middle #
A Pico talks to the shade directly. Everything else, the app, the schedules, the voice assistants, the keypads on the wall, goes through a Lutron hub or processor.
$180
Caséta Smart Bridge Pro at Lutron list: the hub Triathlon and Palladiom Wire-Free need (Serena runs on either Caséta hub). Up to 75 devices. Adds the app, schedules and Alexa, Google Home and Apple Home.
$549
RadioRA 3 processor kit at Lutron list: up to 200 Lutron devices, Sunnata keypads, Lutron Designer programming, and Lutron's integration list for Crestron, Control4, Savant, URC, RTI, Elan, Kaleidescape, AMX, Apple Home, Alexa, Google Home, josh.ai, Sonos, Honeywell and Ecobee.
16
Processors and gateways in one HomeWorks QSX system, with 32 configurable links and 10,000 zones, Ketra through the Clear Connect Gateway Type X, and the Palladiom thermostat.
434 MHz
Clear Connect Type A, the radio the Pico, the keypads and the battery shades share, in a band Lutron calls essentially silent; Type X at 2.4 GHz carries Ketra and dense lighting.
Which one a house needs follows from the shades and the lighting: a Pico alone for one battery shade, the Smart Bridge Pro for a few rooms on the app, RadioRA 3 for a renovation with keypads and an integrator, HomeWorks for an estate. Wired Sivoia QS shades can also run stand-alone from wired QS keypads on the link, with a QSM or a QS Wireless receiver bringing a Pico to them. When the house runs Crestron, Control4 or Savant, the Lutron processor pairs into it and the Lutron keypads, Picos and scenes carry over; at Landmark Ranch Estates the Lutron keypads in every room run Somfy motors through the integrator's interfaces, and at the Ritz-Carlton Residences Sunny Isles the HomeWorks keypads sit inside a Crestron house. The ladder from Caséta to HomeWorks is on lighting control; Lutron against Crestron on Lutron vs Crestron.
What the controls cost #
Every control and hub is in our Lutron figures at Lutron's list price, shown as its own line.
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| Project (installed and programmed) | Lutron Triathlon, battery (Lutron list price) | Lutron Sivoia QS, wired (Lutron list price) | Wired Somfy, for scale |
|---|---|---|---|
| One 72 by 84 in motorized roller shade, fabric and motor included | about $1,293 | about $2,287 | about $1,133 |
| One oversized window, 96 by 108 in | about $1,475 | about $2,497 | about $1,318 |
| A living-room wall: three openings at 96 by 120 in | about $4,183 | about $6,498 | about $4,060 |
| A main floor: five bedroom windows plus a 14 ft slider (two coupled shades) | about $8,840 | about $13,631 | about $8,738 |
| A whole main level: eight motorized shades | about $9,763 | about $15,141 | about $9,887 |
How the Lutron figures are built. Lutron's list price (MSRP) on E Screen 3%, installed and programmed, before tax, with a Pico remote per opening, the Smart Hub Pro (Triathlon) or the RadioRA 3 processor and a power supply per shade (Sivoia QS), the first set of D batteries and 4% delivery. Wired Somfy carries a 24 V power supply per shade; the same 72 by 84 in shade on a Somfy WireFree battery motor is about $933, and the whole main level about $8,287. We sell Lutron at Lutron's list price with installation and programming included and publish it; on a whole project that is about a quarter to a third above Somfy WireFree, or roughly 1.5 to 2 times wired Somfy. Serena is quoted per project. Full list: published pricing · cost by system · instant price.
In the published figures above each opening carries a Pico (about $32 at list, about $28 when it ships with a Triathlon shade), the Triathlon column carries one Smart Bridge Pro per house and the Sivoia QS column one RadioRA 3 processor. Keypads for RadioRA 3 and HomeWorks are quoted per room with the engraving, together with the lighting side of the system where there is one. The Lutron Price Builder adds the Pico, the hub or the processor and the power supplies at list as your choices need them and shows every line.
Where the keypads are #
Six projects where the control is the point, every one with its own case study.
An engraved Lutron keypad: scene, fan and shade buttons on one plate
Six villas on myRoom XR, every blackout and roman run from the wall.
A Palladiom keypad in every room, inside and out
Whole-home HomeWorks: every treatment in the house, and the exterior terrace shades, on the keypad.
A Pico in every room, the house on the app and Siri
Fourteen Triathlon shades on Pico remotes through a Caséta Smart Bridge Pro with two repeaters.
Keypad and scene control on HomeWorks QS
One press, fourteen walls of glass; Basketweave 90 Bright White throughout, Luna blackouts in the bedrooms.
A Lutron keypad in every room, not one remote in the house
Somfy Sonesse 50 dry-contact motors on every roller and Glydea tracks on every drapery, hard-wired into the home's Lutron system with the owners' AV integrator.
The Lutron rack behind the scenes
Every drive native to the residence's Lutron system, so the drapery joins the lighting scenes with no second app or hub.
Wired whole-home line
Sivoia QS
Wired, 20 in to 20 ft, coupled banks, drapery tracks, the line behind HomeWorks estates and hospitality.
Battery dealer line
Triathlon
The dealer battery line: roller, honeycomb and wood blinds on D cells rated three to five years, to 144 in on WIDR.
Direct battery line
Serena
Lutron's direct line on the same chassis as Triathlon, sold with published prices for one room or a finished condo.
Design line
Palladiom
The exposed roller: machined brackets meant to be seen, 20 to 144 in wide, under 35 dBA, wired or wire-free.
All four Lutron shade lines compared · Serena vs Sivoia QS · Lutron vs Crestron · Lutron vs Somfy · All Lutron shading
Pico and keypads, asked and answered
Do Pico remotes need wiring? #
No. A Pico is a wireless remote on a coin cell that Lutron rates at about ten years, paired to the shade itself in ten seconds from the Shade Button, working from about 30 ft, and mounted to a wall plate or a tabletop pedestal without cutting a hole or running a wire. It needs no hub and keeps working if the internet drops. Steps: the Lutron programming guide.
Can one button control shades and lights together? #
Yes, that is what a scene is: one button on a keypad, in the app or by voice that sets many shades and lights at once. In Caséta the owner builds scenes in the Lutron app; on RadioRA 3 and HomeWorks the dealer builds them in Lutron Designer and the owner edits them in the app. Good night closes the bedrooms and Morning opens the sheers at the Ritz-Carlton Residences Miami Beach; every treatment in the Fort Lauderdale estate, inside and out, answers a Palladiom keypad.
Which Lutron hub do I need? #
For Serena, either Caséta hub. For Triathlon and Palladiom Wire-Free, the Caséta Smart Bridge Pro (about $180 at Lutron list; the standard hub does not support them), with up to 75 devices per hub. For a renovation with keypads on the wall and an integrator, RadioRA 3 (processor kit about $549 at list, up to 200 devices). For an estate, HomeWorks QSX, up to sixteen processors and gateways. Wired Sivoia QS shades can also run from wired QS keypads with no processor at all. The ladder, step by step: lighting control.
Can I add controls later? #
Yes. A Pico pairs to a shade in ten seconds; a Smart Bridge Pro is added to the network and the shades and Picos are brought into the app; keypads join a RadioRA 3 or HomeWorks system in Lutron Designer. The one thing that does not change later is the shade's line: a Triathlon shade joins a processor, a Serena shade is listed for Caséta and Pico, so if keypads are coming, order Triathlon. Read Lutron Triathlon.
What about the wall clutter? #
A keypad consolidates: one engraved plate replaces a bank of switches and carries the shades, the drapery and the lights as scenes, with the buttons named for what they do. Palladiom keypads come in metal and glass finishes matched to the Palladiom shades and thermostat; Sunnata keypads carry RadioRA 3 homes; seeTouch and GRAFIK T the older systems. At Landmark Ranch Estates there is a Lutron keypad in every room and not one remote in the house.
Do the Lutron controls work with Alexa, Google Home and Apple Home? #
Yes, through the hub or processor. A Caséta Smart Bridge Pro links to Amazon Alexa and Google Home in their apps and joins Apple Home (a hub with a 2 in its model number and the current Lutron app); RadioRA 3 and HomeWorks add josh.ai to the list. A Pico works alongside the voice assistants and does not depend on them.
Can a Pico run a wired Sivoia QS shade? #
Yes, through a QSM or a QS Wireless receiver on the link, which is how a stand-alone wired shade gets a remote (Lutron's Application Note 463 covers it). In a RadioRA 3 or HomeWorks home the Pico is added in Lutron Designer. Wired Sivoia QS shades also take wired QS keypads on the link, assigned from the keypad, with presets saved by holding a button. Read Lutron Sivoia QS.
Do the Lutron keypads work in a Crestron or Control4 house? #
Yes. Crestron Home pairs natively with HomeWorks QS and QSX, RadioRA 2 and 3 and RA2 Select, imports the Lutron lights, shades and keypads, and the Lutron shade groups stay in Lutron Designer; Lutron's RadioRA 3 list covers Control4 and Savant as well. At the Ritz-Carlton Residences Sunny Isles the HomeWorks keypads sit inside a Crestron house; at Landmark Ranch Estates the Lutron keypads run Somfy motors through the integrator's interfaces. Lutron vs Crestron · Control4 shades.
What do a Pico, a hub and a keypad cost? #
At Lutron's list price, which is what we sell at: the three-button shade Pico about $32.40 (about $28 when it ships with a Triathlon shade), the Caséta Smart Bridge Pro about $180, the RadioRA 3 processor kit about $549. Our published Lutron shade figures carry a Pico per opening and the hub or processor once per house; keypads for RadioRA 3 and HomeWorks are quoted per room with the engraving. The Lutron Price Builder shows each control as its own line. Lutron Price Builder · published pricing.
Can you reprogram or replace controls on Lutron shades you installed? #
Yes. Pairing a new Pico, moving a shade to a new hub, replacing a keypad, rebuilding scenes and schedules, and changing a shade channel where a neighbour's radio interferes are all service calls we take on the Lutron systems we installed, in Fort Lauderdale, Miami, Boca Raton and Palm Beach.
Where the figures come from #
Every model, pairing step and capacity above is Lutron's, from the document linked here; every price is Lutron's list price from the 14 October 2026 capture behind our Lutron Price Builder.
- Lutron, Pico Wireless Control and Mounting Accessories specification 369612q (06/2025): the Pico models, their buttons, mounting and battery. assets.lutron.com
- Lutron, Pico Wireless Programming Guide for Serena and Triathlon Shades and Blinds, P/N 367-2428 (05/2023): pairing, limits, favorite and reset from the Pico. www.serenashades.com
- Lutron, Shading Solutions 4-Group RF Remote Control, P/N 045411 (01/2015). assets.lutron.com
- Lutron, Sivoia QS Triathlon Shading Solutions brochure, P/N 367-2208 rev. M (12/2020): roller shades as wide and as tall as 144 in, the WIDR headrail for shades wider than 8 ft, Battery Boost extending battery life by up to 80% or up to 6 years, honeycomb shades to 96 by 96 in, wood blinds 20 to 72 in wide single and 40 to 96 in as two blinds under one valance in North American basswood with 12 stained and 6 painted finishes, Caséta (Smart Bridge PRO required), RA2 Select, RadioRA 2 and HomeWorks QS, Pico, seeTouch, GRAFIK T and Palladiom keypads, plug-in supplies and 10-shade power panels. assets.lutron.com
- Lutron, Serena and Triathlon roller smart shades specification submittal 085312: 19.5 to 108 in wide, D-cell alkaline counts by width, Battery Boost above 37.5 in, 12 V wired power with a 15 ft power wire, 38 dBA measured 3 ft from the drive, 3.00 in inside-mount depth (3.50 in with fascia). assets.lutron.com
- Lutron support, RadioRA 3 processor FAQ: up to 200 Lutron devices per processor; integrates with URC, RTI, Elan, Crestron, Control4, Savant, Kaleidescape and AMX; Apple HomeKit, Amazon Alexa, Google Home and josh.ai; Sonos, Honeywell and Ecobee. support.lutron.com
- Lutron support, RadioRA 3 System Programming and Configuration Overview: designed to be sold and programmed by trained professionals in Lutron Designer, available after Lutron's qualification training; owners use the Lutron app. support.lutron.com
- Lutron, HomeWorks system architecture, P/N 368-2617 rev. U (03/2025): one processor plus up to 15 additional processors and gateways, 32 configurable links, 10,000 zones; the Palladiom thermostat and HVAC controller in the system diagram. assets.lutron.com
- Lutron press release, 12 September 2019, The next generation of HomeWorks is here: the QSX processor, Ketra through the Clear Connect Gateway Type X (up to 200 Ketra devices per gateway), HomeWorks Designer. commercial.lutron.com
- Lutron, Clear Connect technology whitepaper, P/N 367-1234 rev. E (01/2020): Type A at 434 MHz under FCC 15.231, a band Lutron calls essentially silent; Type X at 2.4 GHz, IEEE 802.15.4. assets.lutron.com
- Lutron, Sivoia roller shades (lutron.com): 35 V Class 2 low voltage, QS Wired and QS Wireless, less than 44 dBA at 3 ft, Intelligent Hembar Alignment within 1/8 in, RadioRA 3, HomeWorks, myRoom XC, Quantum, Athena and Caséta PRO. www.lutron.com
- Lutron support, Using Serena shades with the Caséta system: Apple HomeKit, Google Home and Amazon Alexa through the Caséta app. support.lutron.com
- Crestron Home documentation, Pair and Configure a Lutron System: HomeWorks QS and QSX, RadioRA 2, RadioRA 3 and RA2 Select; one Lutron system per Crestron Home system on the same network switch. docs.crestron.com
- Exotic Shades & Draperies, Lutron Price Builder: Lutron's list prices for every roller fabric, drive, fascia, pocket, bottom bar, side channel, Pico, hub, processor and power supply, read from Lutron's dealer configurator on 14 October 2026. /lutron-price-calculator
- Exotic Shades & Draperies, published pricing: Lutron at Lutron's list price (MSRP), installed and programmed, budgetary and before tax, October 2026. /pricing
- Exotic Shades & Draperies, Lutron shade programming guide: Pico pairing, the Shade Button, hubs, Lutron Designer and the blink codes, from Lutron's installation documents. /lutron-shade-programming
- Exotic Shades & Draperies, Intelligent Hembar Alignment explained: speed read 500 times a second, hembars within 1/8 in, from Lutron's technical note. /lutron-motorized-shades#hembar-alignment
- Exotic Shades & Draperies, credentials: direct Lutron shading account with Lutron Residential Systems (September 2026), Lutron LCI Full Shades Qualification Training certificate (April 2026), Crestron Residential Consultants program member since April 2025, not a Crestron dealer. /recognition
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Exotic Shades & Draperies, Fort Lauderdale and Miami Beach
Exotic Shades & Draperies is a South Florida window-treatment company that designs, sews and installs its own work: Lutron and Somfy motorized shades, custom draperies sewn in our Fort Lauderdale workroom by five in-house seamstresses, plantation shutters and blinds. Established in South Florida in 2024, backed by more than 20 years of window-treatment manufacturing and installation experience. Lutron certified dealer, Somfy Expert, Crestron and Control4 integration. The same in-house team measures, installs and programs every project; when shading has to integrate with another control system, we bring in our smart-home partner Adom Smart Home.
Fort Lauderdale workroom and showroom
4539 Powerline Rd, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33309 · 954-881-9331
Miami Beach showroom
500 South Pointe Dr #150, Miami Beach, FL 33139 · 954-872-9007
Where we install
Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties: Miami Beach, Sunny Isles and Aventura through Hollywood, Fort Lauderdale and Pompano Beach to Boca Raton, Delray Beach and West Palm Beach, with projects in the Caribbean and New York.
How a project runs
Free in-home measurement, a written quote from the same engine as our published prices, fabrication in our own workroom, installation and programming by our own team, and service on the systems we install.
Lutron controls in Fort Lauderdale, Miami, Boca Raton and Palm Beach
Lutron shades in Miami Beach and Miami, in Palm Beach and Boca Raton, in Delray Beach and Sunny Isles Beach, and in our home town of Fort Lauderdale: one certified team covers the whole coast from two showrooms, 4539 Powerline Rd in Fort Lauderdale and 500 South Pointe Dr #150 in Miami Beach (by appointment), where Palladiom, Sivoia QS and Triathlon shades are installed and running.
Buttons that say what they do
Bring a floor plan or a list of rooms, or book the free in-home consultation: we write the scene list with you, place the Picos and keypads where the hand lands, and price every control at Lutron's list.