We are moving to a new house, and I want to build a foundation in something more reliable as homeassistant and zigbee. I looked at KNX and it is ridiculously expensive (170 euros for a pir sensor is a joke). So as an alternative I’m looking at loxone, which seems to be a cheaper alternative to KNX. Do you have experience with it? How good is it? What kind of things are worth automating with loxone? They have a lot of solutions, but I’m not sure if they are all worth it. I am already sold about the lights, but what about multi room audio? Light, motion, temperature sensors? I know KNX has some integration with homeassistant, but I’m not sire about loxone.
hi,
I have loxone for 6 years now and never had a failure so far. I use it for all my critical stuff like door-lock, heating, shading, lights (main lights) and alarm system. for all the other things, which can fail while trying some things, I run home assistant. the main use is to connect zigbee devices to loxone and for energy monitoring. loxone has for the last point also a great solution.
I also like the great dashboard functions for home assistant, which loxone does not have. overall, home assistant is my hardware hub for devices loxone cannot directly talk to.
I have Loxone in house for 10 years. It controls every light, some blinds, garage door, heating, etc. So lots of relays in the electric box. In 10 years, just one relay stopped working, which is a good result, and was easy to put wire into another relay and reconfigure.
Otherwise the system is stable and is a reliable solution worth to be put in a house. There’s no cloud needed, all can work inside LAN, or even without Internet.
The configuration UI is a bit outdated, but works.
I miss that Loxone is so closed system, that it natively works only with own peripherals, and doesn’t talk much with modern IoT standards, so extending the house to use new devices with Loxone is hard and not worth to try.
I’ve reworked another apartment, there I used Shelly devices + Home Assistant instead of Loxone. That was cheaper and more fun.
Thank you for your experience.
I ended installing loxone, and the installer was not very professional. I asked them to do everything wired, to make as many holes in the wall as needed but still they tried to reuse the existing tubes. As a result the wire bus was getting electricity leaked and destroying a lot of equipment. So at the end they had to switch to wireless, which has been very unreliable so far. I’m very upset about it
Our installer was also very unprofessional and lacked experience. The problem with Loxone is that they have a level system for installers/partners but it doesn’t say anything about how experienced they are, only about how many components they purchased from Loxone.
In my case was even worse, because in theory the installer had experience, but they decided to hire and send a new guy, who took all the wrong decision without telling anyone.
I even bet he put more wires than legally allowed inside some tubes
My installation guy have put an 8-wire TCP cable into each switch and wherever needed. It was a bit over-wired in the main electric box, so still not perfect installation, but finally it works.
I have the same (or that is what the lead electric technician told me they were going to do) but still you need the bus wire to go through the house, and that was the problem in my installation. Instead now I have them all using a wireless loxone air device, and I have to hst an additional mini-server on the top of my office desk just to have a better wireless network ,instead of everything being reliably wired.
Sorry, I’m very frustrated about the situation, specially because my wife and I put a lot of money and hopes on this.