#Loxone tree extension software#
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If you wish to use the digital inputs on the Nano IO Air please contact Faradite customer support on use the inputs on the Miniserver, Extension, Dimmer Extension, DI Extension you must wire in a star topology, and to use the inputs of the Nano DI Tree you must wire in a tree topology. Suitable Loxone devices that have 24V digital inputs include the Miniserver, Extension, Dimmer Extension, DI Extension and Nano DI Tree.

#Loxone tree extension free#

There are multiple ways in which the TAP range of switches can be wired in to the Loxone system, but essentially the TAP Volt Free range uses 1 digital input per button. This fly lead option has terminals for connection to cat cables and a 1-wire chip means temperature sensing can be achieved by connecting to the Loxone 1-wire extension. The Loxone - Star (Inc 1-wire) is intended for Loxone systems that are star wired back to a central location. The Loxone Nano DI Tree option provides a fly lead that allows for rapid connection of all switch outputs into the Loxone Nano DI Tree device. There are also a couple of choices of fly leads when using TAP Volt Free switches with Loxone. The TAP-5 provides 5 buttons and the TAP-1 provides a single button. There are 2 varieties of TAP switches: the TAP-5 and the TAP-1. This pulse acts as an input into the Loxone system and can then be utilised in Loxone config to provide a nearly endless range of functionality, we will look at the range of functions later in this blog. The UART pin needed an external pull-up resistor to make it usable for normal io.The Faradite TAP Volt Free switch plate range provides a volt free (dry contact) that pluses for the duration of the button press. Using the teensy's interior pins, and re-purposing one of the UART pins we were able to have 40 pins usable for io. We needed 4 pins for the ethernet connection & 1 pin for the on-board LED. It was a challenge to get 40 I/O available on the teensy 2.0. Each sub board has it's own 5v 5 port switch, and a POE splitter - the whole board being run by 1 port on my POE switch. In our build we have 2 sub-boards each with 4 nodes - making a total of 8 nodes with a capacity for 320 i/o. The boards have a web interface which is really important for setting up and diagnostics as you have feedback showing which inputs or outputs are active.

#Loxone tree extension software#

The software and interface to the loxone does not use any polling at all- so all the double/triple clicks work flawlessly with the loxone system. I'm not a hardware expert at all! But the system we have made is bullet proof reliable. We did consider using I2C io extension boards, but physical size is a factor and it was easier for us to make it compact using the teensy. I chose the teensy 2.0++ as it had a large number of digital IO on the board.

#Loxone tree extension plus#

Add to that 20 door & window sensors, plus blind controls, PIR sensors, under floor heating actuators and pumps. We have 43 light switches - but each light switch has 4 contacts - making 172 inputs just for the light switches. When specifying the server, we quickly realised we would have to find another solution for all the digital io. I've nearly completed building my own home, and have used the loxone mini-server to supply the home automation.