How Loxone Lighting SHOULD Work in a Smart Home

[@JakobVentzel]

Excellent and to the point videos which focus on the end user benefits with Loxone automation and presents relevant everyday use cases! I've been using Loxone in a fully automated house for 4+ years now, but some of your points still make me go 🤔 and then 🕵️‍♂️ in Loxone Config...

[@beeautomation]

Thanks so much Jakob! Haha... anything is possible with Loxone 😉 ... what are you trying to do?

[@JakobVentzel]

@@beeautomation well I'm self-taught Loxone engineer as that was necessary for me to become back in 2016 as there was only one electricians company which was also a certified Loxone parter here in Denmark. They were situated 2 hours drive away from our build, so I drove to meet with them and presented what I wanted to achieve with installing Loxone which they found interesting. But ultimately it turned out to be to much out of their way to have me as a customer that far away from their normal area of operations. So instead I made an agreement with a local electrician that they would do all the work that was only legal for electricians to do and I would take care of all low voltage and software in the combined installation. It all worked out really well, but your presentations of the use cases with Loxone automations have reminded me that I have some automations which could be improved. For example I have been running the house with a cooling and heating period based on two calendar periods denoting these. But this year summer is refusing to arrive here in Denmark, but that didn't prevent our house from going into cooling mode of course which dropped indoor temperatures by 3 degrees and enlisting deep moans and shivering from my partner 😋 So I discovered that with the version 2 of the climate control block there is actually a means for determining if the house should go to heating or cooling mode based on the average temperature in the last 48 hours 🤦 So my challenge is that I don't know what I don't know as I didn't go to Austria for the training, which I probably should have done in hind sight...

[@beeautomation]

@@JakobVentzel I’m always available for remote training if you’d like some 🙂

[@JakobVentzel]

@@beeautomation Hmmm would you be open to doing a remote session where I purchase an hours time to give you a walk through of my current setup and you provide improvement suggestions?

[@beeautomation]

@@JakobVentzel no worries. If you'd like to email me at [e-mail] we can get something organised :)

[@cijomlcijomlovic4974]

Very nice video but I would also like you to show LoxoneConfig for each example you mentioned.

[@beeautomation]

Thank you and thanks for your feedback… I was thinking about doing a series on config in the future but I’m focusing on what the final product can look like for customers at the moment 🙂

[@daletur5328]

Informative video, but can you clarify about using non loxone lights and switches. As long as you use 24v bulbs can any light unit work? And in regards to switch’s if we use the pure in just main zones, ( other half doesn’t like the design or price) can you use normal type light switches in lesser used room and if so what’s needed. Thanks.

[@beeautomation]

Thank you Dale, you can use normal 230v light fittings either connected to a Loxone relay or dimmer extension. Most 24v light fittings go through a transformer or driver, so to answer your question not all will work with Loxone it depends what “light unit” you’re thinking about using. You can use normal retractive switches in those other rooms but you’ll need to allocate a Loxone digital input for each one to detect when it been pressed.

[@wh00t14]

Hi, The motion sensor detects movement and brightness, if it's dark the lights will turn on, what if the person stay in that place without moving, let's say reading a book, the lights turn off because of the lack of movement ? Kind regards,

[@beeautomation]

Yes they will. The new motion sensors have audible inputs too so sound can be used to keep them on too now.

[@syseng99]

As always a great video!! When you were talking about audible alarms, you showed a Sonos (Symphonisk) speaker which sounded the Alarm, how did you connect these with Loxone? Because I have multiple Sonos speakers throughout the house and have issues playing sounds on them (have it play doorbell sound by using openhab and i actually only have openhab running just for that). Thank you!!

[@beeautomation]

Thank you very much... I use a raspberry pi with a Loxone plugin. I know what you mean though, it’s not always reliable. I’m still waiting for Loxone to update the Audioserver to use network speakers properly. I’d always recommend customer have wired speakers if possible.

[@syseng99]

@@beeautomation agree, although imo Sonos doesn't do it's job either. They should offer this as some kind of easy to use control which we can switch on with an api or something.. where we can choose which sound we can hear on which speaker with a certain volume. If you find a better way, please let me know 🙏🙏

[@JakobVentzel]

@@beeautomation The Raspberry Pi with the Loxone plugin, is that Loxberry?

[@beeautomation]

@@JakobVentzel that’s right yes 🙂

[@fifaman2007]

Great présentation love it

[@beeautomation]

Thank you 😊

[@9plusinstalaciones]

Great Information

[@beeautomation]

Thank you mate 🙂

[@9plusinstalaciones]

@@beeautomation Keep up the good work and I wish you luck with your new Channel.

[@beeautomation]

@@9plusinstalaciones thank you very much!