Namely, expensive maintenance of what had gone wrong since their last visit. If that wasn’t bad enough, they would usually end up having to take the best part of their first week on arrival in France dealing with all manner of ‘surprises’. Typically over €1,000 a winter – all for heating an empty house! Over previous winters, even in this frost protection mode, the system was very expensive to run. The problem was that, before it could heat up the house it had to heat itself and the whole complicated system of pipes and radiators over three floors and a cellar. Not to mention the owner’s wallet! The heating in the house was controlled by just one wired thermostat, mounted up at shoulder height, in the ‘Grande Salle’, which also happens to be the largest, coldest room in the house.įor winter frost protection, if the temperature dropped below 8✬ the boiler would switch on and raise the temperature of the Grande Salle by three degrees and then switch off. Down here you will find a gigantic gas boiler which, although being less than five years old and very efficient, physically shakes the room when its switched on. There is also a large cellar with a water sump to clear ground water. This house is large (in a previous century it used to be a hotel), and the ground floor has exceptionally grand, high ceilings. How to heat a large house just a little for a lot less? All they got was yet another bill to fix their central heating system – so it was a case of enough is enough or ‘trop c’est trop’ as they say in France! Last year, when the owners Andrew and Susan arrived for a well deserved holiday break, there was no warm welcome. In addition to the Tree Extension, we have launched the Touch Tree – a five point capacitive switch with an integrated temperature & humidity sensor, the Motion Sensor Tree (clue’s in the name!) and the Valve Actuator Tree for intelligent zoned heating control.Īs with all of our products, we never stop developing, so more Tree products will be joining the lineup in the near future.A historic building in the centre of a small town on the West coast of France is probably the last place you would expect to find the latest in Smart Home Automation technology. The Loxone Tree Extension works together with the Miniserver, and has two branches, each of which can support up to 50 Tree devices. Many will already know that the Loxone Miniserver provides the intelligence behind our centrally managed home automation solution. Not only that, but all communication between security sensitive Tree Products is fully encrypted. Device status LEDs integrated into every Tree device also assist in quick fault finding. One of the innovative new features for Loxone Tree is the intelligent diagnostic function which relays live information about the online status of each individual device. Our extensive development teams at HQ dedicate over half a million man hours each year to developing both our software and our hardware to ensure our products are packed with functionality and remain easy to install and configure. Our hope for Loxone Tree is that it will ensure smart homes are more accessible, opening up the market to new opportunities and boosting the growth of the industry.įrom cabling to commissioning, we have developed our technology to meet the unique needs of our Loxone Partners. This significantly reduces the amount of cable that needs to be run, not to mention freeing up space in the distribution board. With that in mind, we designed Loxone Tree to to allow for the flexible connection of a variety of Tree accessories on a room-by-room basis. We still firmly believe that this is an excellent way to future-proof your install, however, we also understand the growing need for a simpler wiring topology that reduces the overall number of cables being run and thus leads to shorter install times. Those already familiar with Loxone will know that we advocate a star topology when installing the Miniserver. The wiring and configuration are two of the most time-consuming aspects of many smart home installations and thus the most costly. This means that instead of individually wiring devices all the back to the Miniserver, you can instead run just one cable to a room and branch out from there, saving both time and cable costs. The Tree Extension has two branches, each of which can support up to 50 devices. Loxone Tree is a free form wiring standard that allows you to run a single cable to each floor, room or area of your home from the Miniserver to the Tree Extension. We asked Loxone to break it down for us…. Loxone’s new ‘Tree’ system promises to simplify the task of cabling your smart home whilst retaining all the speed and reliability of a wired system.
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