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You plan lighting with your customer, room by room, and you don’t have to be a lighting designer to do it well. This guide shows how to ask the right questions, plan each light by its role, keep the installation open for change, and why LOXONE light belongs in every quote.
01Ask what happens in each room
Good lighting planning starts with a simple question, not with a product list. Take the living room: pendants over the dining table, cozy light by the TV. Ask your customer what they actually do in there. Bright light for eating, soft light in the evening, a relaxed mood when friends come over. With LOXONE, all of these moods are included.
Go through the floor plan with your customer and ask the same question for every room: “What do you want to do in here?” You’re not selling something extra, you’re pointing out a need that’s already there.
02Plan each light by its role
Every light in a room has a job. Think in three roles:
- Ambient light gives the room even, general light.
- Task light is where people work: the kitchen counter, the dining table, the desk.
- Accent light highlights something: a piece of art, a plant, a wall.
You don’t need to work out the ambient light yourself. The LOXONE Planning Guidelines give you the spacing, and the LOXONE Planner places the lights automatically, based on experience from thousands of projects. That leaves you free to focus on the task areas and accents with your customer.
An example: Spot Pure ambient spots are placed roughly 1.2 to 1.7 m apart, and about half that distance from the wall. The closer together, the brighter the room. The Planner calculates with 80% of the light output, so there’s a 20% reserve if the customer wants it brighter later.
03Keep an eye on voltage drop
LOXONE lights run on 24 V. Every device needs a voltage within the range in its datasheet. If too little arrives at the end of a long line, the last lights stop working.
Turning up the power supply isn’t the fix: the spots are rated for a maximum of 25.2 V. Instead, plan cable lengths and loads according to the datasheet right from the start.
Learn more: How to wire lights for low voltage drop is covered in Wiring Essentials and the follow-up tutorial on wiring LOXONE light.
04Why LOXONE lights
LOXONE lights are certified, flicker-free and of consistent quality. You connect them via Tree or Air, and LOXONE Config already knows what each light can do. No bridges, no extra protocols, no separate dimming circuits. Every light delivers the same light and the same colors.
The range is deliberately focused: one product per job, in three finishes. Fewer choices for your customer, fewer risks for you, and one warranty for everything.
05Lights from other manufacturers
If your customer wants lights from another manufacturer, that’s no showstopper. DALI and DMX are supported, and you can mix them with LOXONE lights. Just keep in mind that it takes more effort: more time for wiring and commissioning, so plan that into your quote. And choose good-quality, flicker-free lights.
Tip: Details on third-party lighting are covered in the LOXONE Training for Lighting and Shading.
06Plan for change
Needs change over the years, and a LOXONE installation can change with them. Moods are adjusted in the app, without any work on site.
Take a kid’s bedroom: ambient spots plus two spots over the desk, all in one group. Later, the desk light should be switched separately. You simply split the group in Config, no rewiring needed. And if the desk moves next to the door, you pull the Tree Cable over, connect the new light, and it keeps the same functions.
07Always offer it
A tip from our best-selling partners: include LOXONE lighting in every quote as standard and let the customer cross it out if they don’t want it. The features are included by default, so most customers keep it.
SummaryFour steps to planning LOXONE light
- 1 Ask what happens in each room
- 2 Plan your lights by role and use the LOXONE Planner
- 3 Plan for change
- 4 Always offer it
Plan with your customer, not just for them, and the light will fit the way they live.
Want to know more? Start with From Conventional to LOXONE Lighting and check out our LOXONE Essentials tutorials: Wiring Essentials, Distribution Board Essentials and Commissioning Essentials.