Milestone: Commission Your Building

Everything you have learned so far has been practice. This is the real thing.

You have a project to commission, and from this point on it stays with you. Every module that follows adds to the building you set up here, so it is worth doing carefully.

By the end of this milestone you will have:

Created your project and commissioned its Miniserver
Set up every room with the correct type and area
Explained why the room settings you enter here matter later

The situation

Your Democase is powered, LOXONE Config is installed, and the floor plan is beside you.

The apartment exists on paper. By the end of this lesson it will exist in your project, with every room set up and a Miniserver running it. Nothing is lit yet and nothing plays music, but the building is alive.

Information

Keep the project brief open while you work. Every room you create here comes from the floor plan, and the types and areas you enter will shape how the building behaves in every module that follows.

What you are building

This milestone has three parts: create the project, commission the Miniserver, and set up the rooms.

None of it is new. You have done each part already in the lessons. What is different is that this time it is your project, and it stays.

One decision to make first

The floor plan shows the kitchen and the living room as separate spaces, but there is no wall between them. They form one open area of about 36 m².

Space that is not separated by a physical wall should be combined into one room in your project. It keeps the climate control sensible, and it matches how the customer will experience the space in the app.

So before you start, decide what to call that combined room. Living Area and Living Room are both reasonable. Whatever you choose, the customer will see it.

Tip

This is the kind of judgement a partner makes on every project. The plan tells you what the architect drew. Your job is to decide what the building actually is.

The rooms you need
Room	Area	Room type	Why
Living Area	36 m²	Room where people stay	Kitchen and living room combined, no wall between them
Bedroom	18 m²	Bedroom	Night comfort temperatures preset
Kid's Bedroom	18 m²	Bedroom	Same reasoning
Bathroom	6 m²	Room where people stay	People stay in it, briefly but not passing through
Landing	8 m²	Thoroughfare	People pass through, so short automatic light times

Warning

Enter the areas accurately. The intelligent climate control uses them, and a wrong area gives wrong heating and cooling later. The combined living area is about 36 m², not 20.

Why the room type matters here

The landing is the clearest example. Set as a thoroughfare, its automatic lights will stay on for around 120 seconds after motion. Set as a room where people stay, they would stay on for around 900.

You will not notice the difference today, because there are no lights in the project yet. You will notice it in the Lighting milestone, when the landing behaves correctly without you having to tune anything.

Takeaway

Your building now exists. The Miniserver is commissioned, the rooms are set up with the right types and areas, and the project is saved in both places. Nothing is lit and nothing plays yet, but every module from here adds to what you have just built.

Apply What You've Learned

Task

Use your Demo Case and the floor plan beside you to commission you building project.

Start from New Project, so the project is created in the correct language.
Search the network and connect to your Miniserver.
Log in with the default credentials.
Open Configure Miniserver and set the Miniserver name.
Set the geographic location, so sunrise and sunset can be calculated later.
Apply and send to the Miniserver.
Change the default admin password.
Create the five rooms from the table above, combining the kitchen and living room into one.
Set each room's type, and enter its area accurately.
Create a programming page for one room and set its Default Room, so you can see how assignment works.
Save the program to the Miniserver, and save a copy of the project to your PC.
Open the LOXONE app and confirm your rooms appear.