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    Devices | Sensors

    Looking for ultrasonic wind speed sensor

    February 4, 2025February 4, 2025

    Traditional mechanical anemometers employ moving parts, which are susceptible to wear and tear, potentially leading to sensor failure. In contrast, ultrasonic wind sensors operate without moving parts, ensuring reliable and stable operation over the long term with minimal maintenance requirements. If you are considering an upgrade from a mechanical anemometer to an ultrasonic one like…

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  • Car plugged in and charging
    Configuration | Loxone | Photovoltaic system | Solutions | Wattsonic

    Automating EV charging with Loxone: Avoiding solar battery discharge

    December 29, 2024December 30, 2024

    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…

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  • Loxone AC Control Air module for Toshiba in hand
    Devices | Interior | Loxone | Solutions

    Loxone AC Control AIR

    October 16, 2023October 16, 2023
    4 Comments

    Hey, something that I was trying to sort out by myself probably gets sorted even better by Loxone. One of the things that do have quite extensive impact on the overall energy consumption but was very difficult to control externally is the Air Conditioning. Loxone recently launched a product that should be the remedy for…

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  • Relax in the Softub
    Garden | Softub | Solutions

    Softub installation

    October 7, 2023February 23, 2026

    I have always enjoyed relaxing in a hot tub / jacuzzi / whirlpool, especially during winter holiday if there was one. What if it were possible to have such an enchanting relaxing experience on a more frequent basis, feeling at home like somewhere on a relaxing vacation. Of course, everyone might have different opinions and…

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  • Wattsonic and Loxone config examples
    Configuration | Devices | Loxone | Photovoltaic system | Solutions | Wattsonic

    Wattsonic and Loxone config examples

    June 8, 2023June 9, 2023
    17 Comments

    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,…

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  • Wattsonic Hybrid Inverter Gen3 Modbus RTU Protocol
    Configuration | Devices | Photovoltaic system | Solutions | Wattsonic | Wiring

    Wattsonic Hybrid Inverter Gen3 Modbus RTU Protocol

    June 6, 2023April 8, 2026
    8 Comments

    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…

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