- #LOXONE HOME AUTOMATION REVIEW HOW TO#
- #LOXONE HOME AUTOMATION REVIEW UPDATE#
- #LOXONE HOME AUTOMATION REVIEW UPGRADE#
- #LOXONE HOME AUTOMATION REVIEW TRIAL#
#LOXONE HOME AUTOMATION REVIEW TRIAL#
I investigated 2 methods, 1home and Openhab.ġhome was definitely the easier option and they have a free trial which worked great, but it was quite expensive and I’m a fan of open source so I went with Openhab. My first task was to integrate Alexa so that I can turn the lights off or close the blinds through my existing system. My existing Alexa controlled smart home, with around 20 devices from different brands including fans, bulbs, smart plugs, LED strips, plus Alexa routines and scenes, and my Loxone system which controls my blinds, ceiling lights and heating. The quality was a major step to to what I’m used to and I have found it to be an amazing, reliable and powerful system, but it is just not good at working with my existing devices.Īfter working with my Loxone partner in setting up the system to my requirements, I was left with a house with 2 systems.
I wanted a more professional system so I chose to go with Loxone.
#LOXONE HOME AUTOMATION REVIEW UPGRADE#
I installed it as an upgrade to my existing Frankenstein system made of several Alexa-connected devices of varying quality and price. I hope this article has helped you get over the isolated feeling of working with Loxone by showing you that your home automation system can have friends and integrate with one of the most popular tools out there. Using IFTTT opens up the whole Loxone ecosystem to some amazing 3rd party products, like these cool Nanoleaf tiles ( UK, US). The paid IFTTT plan gives a faster execution time but it still won’t compare to native Loxone products which work over an internal network. My smart bulbs can take from 3–8 seconds to respond. Save your config in the Miniserver and test it out.īe aware that there can be a delay from triggering your IFTTT command from Loxone. You can also choose to put your new switch into the user interface so it can be triggered through the app. Here I am triggering my scene from a triple click on my Touch Air (RaQ). Once you’ve created your switch you can set it up your trigger and drag in your Virtual Output. Just be aware that if you trigger your scene from outside Loxone, like a 3rd party app or Alexa then that status won’t be passed to Loxone, so you might be turning something on that is already on. If you do want your Virtual Output to have an OFF command as well then you probably want to choose an On/Off switch. I’m going to use a Retractive Switch because I just want to fire an ON command and don’t need to worry about OFF.
Step 7: We are going to create a switch to trigger our Virtual Output.
You can also create another webhook for the OFF command and enter that in the Command for OFF parameter (eg turning your lights back on again).
Step 6: Set the following parameters for the Command:Ĭommand for ON: the rest of the URL for your webhook, eg /trigger/dim_kids_room/with/key/ABCDEFGHJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ Step 5: Create a new Virtual Output Command
#LOXONE HOME AUTOMATION REVIEW UPDATE#
Step 4: Set the Address to (Note the “http”, not “https”, the Miniserver Gen 1 latest update doesn’t support https). We’ll be using this Virtual Output for all our IFTTT commands each webhook that we send is a new Virtual Output Command and is configured in the next step. A virtual output is a command that’s sent from Loxone to an external system. Step 2: We will be using Virtual Outputs. Step 1: Open Loxone Config and save a backup If you can see a better way of doing it or just want to point out some errors that I’ve made then please put them in the comments below. All the steps here I’ve worked out for myself and I may be making some mistakes.
#LOXONE HOME AUTOMATION REVIEW HOW TO#
In this post I’m going to show you how to call IFTTT from your Loxone Config.ĭisclaimer: I’m not a Loxone partner so I have no formal training. In part 1 we used IFTTT to set up a simple webhook and connect it to our smart home.
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