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 … Read More
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 … Read More
This post is an update of an earlier article I did for garden irrigation. The main reason for this update is an additional section/solenoid valve added to the system which I want to control with Loxone. In the previous design I used three of the extension relays outputs (one relay per solenoid). With the newly … Read More
Home automation systems like Loxone do require 24V DC power supply. In most cases the infrastructure is fed by one separate PSU unit, which has some kind of power outage protection (UPS, either on its primary side AC, or the DC side), and is separated from the other high-consumption components (like LED strips, valves, locks, … Read More
Once you have all the wiring done properly following the star typology, you might notice that the amount of cables terminating in the cabinet is enormous. I do have around 60 UTP/STP cables for the whole house there just for Loxone purposes (not talking about network cables that are heading into different rack. To keep … Read More