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# DALI Binding

This binding supports controlling devices on a DALI bus (Digital Addressable Lighting Interface) via a daliserver (opens new window) connection.

Daliserver supports the Tridonic/Lunatone DALI USB adapter. As it only provides a thin multiplexer for the USB interface, the DALI messages themselves are implemented as part of this binding.

# Supported Things

Currently, these things are supported:

  • daliserver (bridge)
  • device (single device/ballast on the DALI bus)
  • group (group of DALI devices)
  • rgb (virtual device consisting of three directly addressed devices that represent r/g/b (LED) color channels)
  • device-dt8 (single device/ballast supporting DT8 (single-channel RGB & color temperature control))
  • group-dt8 (group of DALI devices supporting DT8)

This binding was tested on a DALI 1 bus with daliserver 0.2.

# Discovery

Automatic device discovery is not yet implemented.

# Thing Configuration

# Bridge daliserver

Parameter Parameter ID Required/Optional description
Hostname host Required IP address or host name of daliserver
Port Number port Required Port of the daliserver TCP interface

# device

Parameter Parameter ID Required/Optional description
Device ID targetId Required Address of device in the DALI bus

# group

Parameter Parameter ID Required/Optional description
Group ID targetId Required Address of group in the DALI bus
Read Device ID readDeviceTargetId Optional If reading values from this group fails, you can choose to read from a single device instead

# rgb

Parameter Parameter ID Required/Optional description
R Device ID targetIdR Required Address of device in the DALI bus
G Device ID targetIdG Required Address of device in the DALI bus
B Device ID targetIdB Required Address of device in the DALI bus

# device-dt8

Parameter Parameter ID Required/Optional description
Device ID targetId Required Address of device in the DALI bus

# group-dt8

Parameter Parameter ID Required/Optional description
Group ID targetId Required Address of group in the DALI bus
Read Device ID readDeviceTargetId Optional If reading values from this group fails, you can choose to read from a single device instead

# Full Example

.things file

Bridge dali:daliserver:237dbae7 "Daliserver" [ host="localhost", port=55825] {
    Thing rgb 87bf0403-a45d-4037-b874-28f4ece30004 "RGB Lights" [ targetIdR=0, targetIdG=1, targetIdB=2 ]
    Thing device 995e16ca-07c4-4111-9cda-504cb5120f82 "Warm White" [ targetId=3 ]
    Thing group 31da8dac-8e09-455a-bc7a-6ed70f740001 "Living Room Lights" [ targetId=0, readDeviceTargetId=3 ]
}

.items file

Dimmer WarmWhiteLivingRoom "Warm White Living Room"  {channel="dali:device:237dbae7:995e16ca-07c4-4111-9cda-504cb5120f82:dimImmediately"}
Color ColorLivingRoom "Light Color Living Room"  {channel="dali:device:237dbae7:87bf0403-a45d-4037-b874-28f4ece30004:color"}
Number:Temperature ColorTemperatureLivingRoom "Light Color Temperature Living Room [%d K]"  {channel="dali:device:237dbae7:87bf0403-a45d-4037-b874-28f4ece30004:color-temperature-abs"}
Switch LightsLivingRoom "Lights Living Room On/Off"  {channel="dali:device:237dbae7:31da8dac-8e09-455a-bc7a-6ed70f740001:dimImmediately"}
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