#LOXONE SMART HOME COST MANUAL#

If despite the linked tutorials something is not explained clearly, then I’m happy about your comment below. Since there are already excellent tutorials for the individual parts, I will not explain each step in detail here. Then I describe the most important settings in the Shelly and Loxone configuration. First I will explain the architecture, which means the interaction of the individual components.

In this section, I describe the realization of my ultimate Shutter Control. The advantage of my ultimate shutter control, in addition to the lower price, is the very easy upgradeability of old buildings, or if during the construction phase of the new building the budget for the automation of all shutters was too small. The channel published a very interesting comparison for complete home automation with Loxone, KNX and Homematic components on YouTube. Price comparison with a plain Loxone installation or a KNX installation is nevertheless difficult. Besides, there are additional cables for the cabling from the meter cabinet to the shutter. An 8-port KNX shutter actuator is quickly twice as expensive. That is 160€ for 8 automated roller shutters in our house. If you leave out the Miniserver Go and Raspberry Pi in the cost analysis of my ultimate shutter control, then only costs for the Shelly 2.5 of approximately 20€ are required for each automated shutter. The Raspberry Pi provides a MQTT broker and sends the Shelly messages to the Loxone Miniserver. power supply, WiFi and an SD card) with Loxberry image is used to send MQTT messages to Loxone.

#LOXONE SMART HOME COST MANUAL#

In order to track manual operation of the roller shutters in the Loxone Miniserver, the Shelly actuators send their current status (button pressed, motor start, motor stop) via MQTT protocol. I use the Shelly 2.5 for this task, which can be installed behind the shutter switch in a deep junction box.

This actuator implements both the switching commands of the miniserver and the manual operation of a connected switch. In addition to the Smart Home control panel, we also need a smart actuator for each automated shutter. It is cheaper than the conventional Miniserver and is very easy to connect, especially for additional installations that are not supposed to be installed in the electrical cabinet (you only need an electrical outlet and a connection to your network). I rely on Loxone and thereby run the Miniserver Go from Loxone. What do you need to implement the ultimate Smart Home shutter control?įirst of all, you need a Smart Home Center, which controls your complete home automation. operable even if Smart Home system breaks down.Implementing our shading control system, the following principles were fundamental to me: Raise the shutters in brightness to wake the children if they sleep too long. To prevent burglary, raise and lower the shutters as if occupants were present when they are not at home.If a door is open then do not lower the shutters to prevent occupants from being locked out.If it gets hot today, move the external shutters to a heat protection position to keep the room temperature low.When it gets dark outside lower the shutters.If it is bright outside but residents are home, then do not raise all shutters all the way, but set them to a screen position.If it is bright outside and nobody is home, move all shutters up.In case of very low temperatures and snowfall, do not move shutters to protect them against damage.In the event of a storm, raise the shutters to protect them against damage.

In case of fire alarm, raise shutters to provide escape routes.For example, it is very annoying if you want to sleep for longer on the weekend, but the blinds in the bedroom are raised early in the morning. And a wrong logic is much more annoying with shutters than, for example, with lighting. I quickly realized that automatic shutters are the ultimate discipline in the smart home because it is not so easy to map personal operating behavior into logic. These questions had to be answered before I could start programming our shutter control. But when does it exactly get dark? And how do I deal with the shift of that time during the year? Can I also use the blinds as heat protection during the day in the summer? And how do I prevent a closed shutter of the living room window from locking me out on the terrace in the summer? Down when it’s dark, up when it’s bright - what’s so difficult about automated shutter control? That were my first thoughts when I started to program our shutters in the house.

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