Commissioning LOXONE Light

The lights are wired, so let’s bring them to life. If the lights are installed properly, commissioning them is quick, because LOXONE does most of the work for you. This guide covers preparation, pairing the lights, Auto Configuration, the decisions only you can make, and where your customer takes over.

Good to know: For the general commissioning steps, see Commissioning Essentials.

01Prepare at your desk

A good commissioning day starts at your desk. If you planned the project with the LOXONE Planner, open it in Config, and you’re already halfway there.

Make sure every light, sensor and Touch is assigned to its room, and that each room has the right room type. This part is key: Auto Configuration builds everything on rooms and room types. A bedroom set up as a bedroom, for example, gets the Good Night function automatically.

Don’t forget: Make sure there’s a network on site. Without it, commissioning stalls.

02Pair and name the lights

When the lights and the network are wired and ready, commissioning on site is easy, and LOXONE lights even help you out beforehand: an installed LOXONE light turns on automatically and lights up the construction site until it’s paired with a Miniserver.

Pair the lights the same way as any other LOXONE device. Select a light, and it identifies itself by blinking, so you always know which device you’re pairing. Go from room to room and pair every physical light with its placeholder in Config.

Name each light in Config based on where it’s physically located, then give it a clear name for the customer in the app. Do this as soon as the lights are installed, while everything is still easy to reach.

If a light doesn’t respond: Check the wiring first, especially the common ground. Software can’t fix hardware.

03Let Auto Configuration do the work

Now comes the part that saves you hours. Open Auto Configuration and select the lighting basic function for the rooms you want to program. Then choose the comfort functions Auto Configuration should add to your project, such as Central Functions, Good Night and Leave House.

Confirm, and LOXONE builds the lighting for you. Every room gets its Lighting Controller with the lights connected, sensible default moods and automatic light from the presence sensor. On top of that, you get Lighting Central for the whole home, Good Night from the bedroom and Leave House from the entrance.

On most projects, you won’t build any of this by hand: Auto Configuration covers most functions of a typical home. But it can’t know how your customer uses every room, so the next step is to check the configuration.

04Motion or presence

A presence sensor gives you two signals:

• Motion is for rooms people pass through, and under beds for night lighting.
• Presence is for rooms people stay in, like the living room or a bedroom, because the sensor also listens. Someone sitting still watching TV keeps the light on.

Use either motion or presence for each room, but never mix them. Then check the brightness threshold, so the light only comes on when the room is actually too dark.

Testing tip: Set the timers to a few seconds and watch the lights switch off automatically, both in the room and in LiveView. When everything behaves as it should, set the timer back to the default value or to one that fits your customer’s needs.

05Moods and brightness

Give the moods names your customer understands, like Dinner or TV, and keep the wall switch simple: two or three moods your customer uses every day are far better than eight. Everything else stays in the app.

Then set the brightness to the room. Remember the 80/20 rule from the Planning Guidelines: the lights are planned at 80% of their output, so there’s room to adjust. A dinner mood, for example, often looks best well below that. Walk around the room and check for dark spots or glare. Lighting should look great from everywhere, not just from the middle of the room.

06Check Good Night and Leave House

Now check the functions your customer will show their friends:

• Leave House: a triple click on the Touch by the front door switches off all the lights when the customer leaves for the day.
• Good Night: a triple click on the Touch Nightlight by the bed also turns off every light in the home. Set the time when night mode ends, so it matches when your customer gets up.

Also check the night lighting. With Good Night active, motion in the bedroom should bring on a soft, dim light, not full brightness. If it comes on at full brightness, the night mode is in the wrong place: move it to the top of the priority list of automatic lighting modes. Another triple click by the bed should turn all the lights off once more.

07Hand over to your customer

So where does your job end? You take care of the basics: pairing, Auto Configuration, the checks and any special cases. When you hand over, everything works in the app and the basic moods are in place.

From there, your customer can take over. In the app, they can adjust every light, change colors and brightness, reorder their moods and choose which ones the wall switch reaches, all without calling you.

Plan a short handover appointment, show them exactly that and let them try it themselves. We recommend setting a second date about a month later, once they’ve lived with the lighting for a while.

SummaryChecklist for commissioning LOXONE light

• 1  All lights are named, in the right rooms with the right room types, and paired to the Miniserver
• 2  Auto Configuration has built the lighting
• 3  Every room uses motion or presence, matching how it’s used
• 4  The wall switch moods are short, and the brightness is set to the room
• 5  Good Night and Leave House work according to the customer’s needs
• 6  Your customer knows how to make the lighting their own

Once the lights are installed properly, commissioning them really is the easy part, and your customer can take it from there.

Want to go deeper? The LOXONE Academy has modules on the Lighting Controller, automatic lighting and central functions. Also read Planning LOXONE Light and Wiring LOXONE Light.