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Saving a Fail-Safe Motorized Valve
Even “fail-safe” components have an expiration date. After eight years of flawless service, a critical motorized valve in my setup failed to close. This post dives into the internal “magic” of supercapacitors and gearboxes, why a secondary safety layer (and Loxone) saved my wallet, and a step-by-step guide to upgrading your valves with a €3 replacement part.
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DoorBird Chime
If you already have DoorBird intercom installed (like I do) there is an interesting peripheral device you can pair it with to either become your primary source of doorbell sound, or to just enlarge the area where you want to be notified about the doorbell press. And that all over your existing network. There are Read more
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Infrared remote for HiFiBerry
There are situations where it is not very convenient to use the phone or tablet to control the music. Sometimes you just need to quickly change the volume, pause the playback or skip a song on a playlist, and this can be done much easier using a IR remote. Adding an infrared remote to the Raspberry Read more
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Loxone multiroom audio using HiFiBerry and Max2Play
Loxone offers their own out of box solution for multiroom audio which consists of Loxone Music server, multi-channel Amp and various types of wired speakers. The topology requires audio cabling prepared between the centrally located (potentially rack mounted) amplifier and all the places where you would like to listen to your music. It is the Read more
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DoorBird intercom with Loxone
I have been constantly postponing most of the construction finalizations in front and around the house, in order to complete the interior and garden in the back first. That took longer than I expected and as a result some of my initial plans were a bit re-shaped and diverted from the original intent. This was Read more
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Norm 69 lamp from Normann Copenhagen
It is a Christmas time so why not talk about some of the nice gifts. Today I have special one to talk about, it is very nice pendant classics, a design icon that never gets old. The Norm 69 from Normann Copenhagen is a sculptural pendant light that consists of 69 parts. It can be Read more
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24V DMX Dimmers
Some of you might already noticed that Loxone silently discontinued few products and one of the areas impacted are DMX products. Just a simple query to their web-shop reveals that there are no 24V DMX Dimmers any longer. The focus has moved towards Tree and Air products, leaving open standards aside. Same happened to EnOcean Read more