All about smarthome programming and config
Loxone’s official Weather Service is convenient, but it’s a paid and closed system. People typically bundle the purchase together with the Weather station, but that wasn’t the case back then. If you’re happy to manage your own forecast source (for example from a public API like MET Norway’s Locationforecast), you can emulate the official service…
This article addresses a common scenario: you own an electric vehicle and a home wallbox, but prefer to charge your car exclusively with surplus solar energy or directly from the grid, avoiding the use of energy stored in your photovoltaic battery. I’ll try to showcase how I automated this using Loxone home automation. If you…
In the previous post I shared the Modbus registers that we can use to communicate with Wattsonic Hybrid Inverters. Now let’s show a few Loxone config examples to illustrate how the data can be visualized within the Loxone app. Again, please bear in mind that what is/isn’t available and works or does not work today,…
In this post I will try to share the details about how to communicate with Wattsonic inverters using modbus protocol. Understanding the connection details and list of registers is very useful if you want to get live data from the inverter directly, not relying only on the cloud app. This is essential thing if you…
Initially I was planning this post just as an expansion of original Loxone video which I found a bit too brief. In the end the story was not as successful as I would think it could be, so in case you are considering or even planning a Loxone Miniserver swap for the second generation, be…
Remembering the day of your rubbish bin collection is not that difficult. Especially if this is just the very same day every week. But what if this is happening fortnightly like in my case? Would you still keep track? Nah, but there are easy reminders to be set in the Google calendar for example. But…