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Here is discussion of various alternative implementation for actuators (relays). In Germany the Loxone Relay Extension (14 outputs) sells for 470.05€, which is around 35€ an output. If one is implementing DMX, Modbus or other protocols in an installation

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Work on electrical installations, in particular mains voltage cables and connections should only be carried out by appropriately trained and qualified professionals! The official Loxone Cabling Knowledge Base https://www.loxone.com/enen/kb-cat/cabling/ Lo

Although Loxone supports parsing hexadecimal strings on input (RS232/485, virtual HTTP input command, ...) Loxone - slash h.PNG there are apparently situations when this doesn't work. One of these cases is Jablotron alarm replying to an explicit request f

Following on from the wiki entry in Part 1 - Convert hexadecimal string to a number (Part 1) https://loxwiki.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/LOXEN/pages/1309442158/Convert+hexadecimal+string+to+a+number+Part+1 - this Part 2 guide provides guidance for convertin

Introduction Some time ago I set myself an ambitious goal of creating cooling automation for my Daikin AC unit using the Intelligent Room Controller v2 block. Using its intelligence and simplicity of management to efficiently control an AC unit is not an

Dear Loxwiki followers Most recently i started a project with Loxone to monitor my home as efficient as possible. What i mean with monitoring is to make an energy efficient balance between all of my domestic devices. As you all know there's a certain func

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Fronius has three options for reading data from the Symo Hybrid inverter - Fronius Solar API Push Service Modbus TCP The Fronius Solar API and Push Service is discussed in other How-To's (Fronius Symo API Query https://www.loxforum.com/forum/faqs-tutorial

In these subcategories, you will find information about the various functional areas of the Loxone Miniservers. Lighting The lighting section discusses advantages/disadvantages of different systems (230V, 12V, 24V, etc). In addition, LED luminaires are li

I was looking for a simple and efficient integration between Home Assistant and Loxone but I couldn’t find one. All I found were integrations using MQTT@Loxberry or ioBroker. I wanted something without these unnecessary layers. The use cases for such an i

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Basic The control system xCC enables remote control by a higher-level control system using the ModbusTCP communication protocol. Using the ModbusTCP protocol, it is possible to configure and read individual parameters of the control system in a similar wa

Introduction Two months ago I’ve replaced my 15-year-old washing machine with a new one and I also bought a dryer. Both devices are from Bosch (Serie) 8 with WiFi and Home Connect. Today I may present integration of those two household appliances with Lox

Introduction It’s not exactly a secret that Daikin makes air conditioning devices that are the easiest to integrate over Wifi. I got one for myself and have successfully integrated it with my Loxone smart home system. Integration described below covers mo

Introduction According to experts, Ozmo 950 is currently one of the best cleaning robots on the market and I believe this might be true as after 3 months of use I'm constantly satisfied with it. The device is quite new so unfortunately there are no many i

In anything but the smallest installations Loxone statistics are sadly lacking in a number of areas. Luckily there exist many third party applications that can be used to view both long and short term statistics... if only the data could easily be harvest

Describe when this information is helpful, eg: "On the first connection to a Wi-Fi network, you need to ...". Introduction I’ve managed to integrate Xiaomi Evaporative Humidifier with Loxone. This is a no-fog, no-mist, no-ultrasound device that costs ~120

This integration allows to control Yeelight W3 Multicolor Bulb in both RGB and CT modes using a single Lighting Controller output. New generation of Yeelight bulbs has a documented local tcp API https://www.yeelight.com/download/Yeelight_Inter-Operation_S

Loxone do not supply a Z-Wave extension but sometimes it may be desirable to integrate with such devices. This How-To describes the simple case of using Z-Wave wireless window/door sensors with Loxone, but the principles will be similar for other sensors

Control systems for lighting There are a variety of control systems for lighting. This overview shows the possible control protocols and buses, their wiring scheme and what is required with Loxone with the assumption that dimming is to be implemented. Con

A Loxberry installation on a USB hard-drive or SSD provides a more robust environment for running the device. Specifically, if the Loxberry is used for statistics gathering (eg. Node-Red/Influx/Grafana), the USB Hard-drive or SSD will tolerate far more wr

Seb Francis has created a very nice UI Extension. In his own words, "The Loxone UI Extension is a browser based interface that extends the capabilities of the primary Loxone interface. It allows highly customised interfaces to be created with minimal prog

For articles and information regarding how to monitor a Loxone installation and/or setup alarms.

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MusicServer4Lox is a free/opensource/etc (status unknown) system developed by LoxForum https://www.loxforum.com/ member 'hismastersvoice' (real name unknown!). The system is developed in German and runs on the Ubuntu Linux Distribution. It is designed to

Introduction Since 24VDC motion sensors are not so common the choice is sometimes bigger in a 230V version. The NIKO 350-20158 is an outdoor 230VAC motion sensor which can switch with detection range of 0 to 13 m. It a wall mounted device and comes in 2 c

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A list with plugins and what permissions they need. Like this, you can only assign those permissions to your Loxberry user, which is much safer. Permissions / Name Edit own password Loxone Config FTP Website/ apps Bedrijfs tijden(Eng?) Automatic Designer

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The Binary Decoder block can be used to find individual bits of numbers up to 255 (8 bit numbers) but how to do this for larger integers? For a 16 bit numbers the answer is to use 2 x Binary Decoder blocks. Use two Formula Blocks first to 'split' the inpu

The English Loxone Community Wiki

Contents Please conduct all discussion on this HowTo at - https://www.loxforum.com/forum/faqs-tutorials-howto-s-aa/165898-text-input-to-miniserver https://www.loxforum.com/forum/faqs-tutorials-howto-s-aa/165898-text-input-to-miniserver The Miniserver does

Welcome to the English Loxone Community Wiki! A place to give beginners and owners alike an insight into the world of Loxone home automation to make life easier within their Smart Home. Please contribute your experiences where you can. In the different ca