Loxone smart socket serial#

I basically tackled the equation in sections, multiplying the contents of the brackets, feeding in my temperature and wind speed adjusted to km/h.

I stuck to my trusted problem-solving methodology, which is to break a problem (in this case, a formula) down into smaller parts and deal with it that way. Maths not being my best subject the next bit (main formula) was somewhat of a challenge for me. (Above: super simplistic meters per second to kilometres per hour converter) Where there’s a will there’s a chill! Very straight forward case of multiplication and division. The first (easy) part is simply to use a couple of Loxone maths block to convert the wind speed coming off the weather station from m/s to km/h. The first little problem is that this formula required ‘ v’ in KM/H, however my weather station is giving me wind speeds in meters per second. With confidence in my own abilities, and personal experience that with Loxone it’s generally a case of not ‘if’ something is possible, but ‘how’, I got stuck in. My first thought was that this formula looked like something out of QI. (Where T is the air temperature in degrees Celsius, and V is the wind speed in kilometres per hour) It turns out, the formula for Wind Chill (Celcius & KM/h) is this:

When I got it, I next thing I needed to figure out, was what on earth to do with it! There are many online wind chill calculators out there, but I wanted to use my Loxone Miniserver to make my own calculations, with my own weather station data. Surely then ‘wind chill’ (some combination of the two) would be simple to work out? Hmm! A ‘Quite Interesting’ little formula!Īfter a little Googling I became a tad despondent. Having turned distinctly chilly & windy as of late, I was looking at where the data from the house anemometer (wind meter) and outside temperature gauge displays on the house control iPad, and it struck me that I didn’t have any display data for ‘real feel’ or ‘wind chill’ temperature. “ Sometimes I wonder if Jones is still breathing.” My old Maths teacher Mr Baxter would be proud, though I never did forgive him for writing in my school report that. However, despite this, I recently embarked on a mini project in which I used a little maths, some logic, and my Loxone miniserver to take data from two essentially ‘dumb’ devices and used this to create ‘smart data’ out for my home. I am not a mathematician, I am just someone that understands a little bit about logic. So the ability to be able to ‘program’ with the building blocks of logic and maths is a crucial feature of a real smart home system. Dig right down into what makes automation possible, and you will find that everything is basically running on… logic and maths. The power of automation is completely dependent how features, functions and data can interact together in such a way that they can then change how systems work in real time. Real smart does real feelĪt the heart of a real smart home is not necessarily just a skip load of widgets, functions and features, but interoperability and automation.

Loxone smart socket serial#

In a bid to try to wrestle the definition back from serial misuse, I thought I would have a go at making my own distinction. The term ‘Smart Home’ is being so increasingly used and abused I am even loathed to using it myself. Static features are not able to automatically and dynamically react to changing situations. Just because something is smart to do, it doesn’t mean that it is ‘smart’ by nature. The answer, is of course, these are both ‘smart’ things to do, they both might put off intruders, and yes, the latter is undoubtedly the cheapest and easiest to deploy! They are however both technically static standalone ‘security features’. Or is it as house that has a big ‘ Beware of the dog’ sign on the front gate, when the home owner doesn’t have a dog?

Is it a house that has a doorbell camera that can record potential intruders?