Loxone and Home Assistant

Dear All,

please help a complete newcomer to the Loxone world. I want to control a fan via 0-10V (based on outside air quality sensor data already in HA) with home assistant, and since a friend had a gen1 loxone miniserver lying in his drawer for years now, he gave it to me to play with, as it is more than “capable” of managing 0-10V output :smiley: :smiley:

I’m using HA for quite some year, I’d say I became fairly familiar with popping its hood up and dig into it. Bit I know absolutely nothing about the Loxone miniserver, just started to play with loxconfig. I’m sure my friend will help setting it up, but I’d like to understand about it about how I can manage data connection between the two systems (HA with PyLoxone and the miniserver).

So far what I’ve done:

  • setup miniserver with empty project
  • setup PyLoxone, and successfully import the miniserver into HA
  • test virtual buttons show up HA, but when I click on them in HA, their state does not change in Loxone
  • no physical input or output connection done with the miniserver (apart from ethernet obviously), first I try to establish steady logical connection between the two system.

I have a couple of first question:

  • is PyLoxone the only (or should I say easiest, as Loxone is quite versatile as far as I understand) way to integrate a miniserver into HA?
  • what kind of button should I create in Loxconfig which will show up and controllable in HA “natively”? is there any prerequisite in Loxconfig for a button to work (by working I mean when I press it in HA the state changes in Loxone as well)

Many thanks in advance!