Command line interface to control a DALI system.

DALI is the digital addressable lighting interface as described here.

To transmit a gear OFF command to the DALI bus you enter the following.

dali --serial-port /dev/ttyUSB0 off

This will transmit the control gear command OFF, using broadcast addressing, via an adapter connected to the serial port. Alternatively, you can use a Lunatone or BEGA adapter.

dali --hid off

Usually, you will operate with a single bus interface. You can use an environment variable to set it once.

export DALI_SERIAL_PORT=/dev/ttyUSB0
dali max
dali min
dali off

Use optional addressing to direct DALI commands to single controllers attached to the bus.

dali dapc 100 --adr G0

Use the --help option to learn more about available commands.

dali --help

Some commands support further parameters. Again, the help option let you explore the available commands and their usage. Note that most commands for DALI control gears are grouped under the gear command, while control device commands are grouped under the device command.

dali gear --help

The commands are structured like a tree. For instance the following command queries a control gear's status.

dali gear query status
status: 4 = 0x04 = 00000100b
bit : description
  0 : controlGearFailure
  0 : lampFailure
  1 : lampOn
  0 : limitError
  0 : fadeRunning
  0 : resetState
  0 : shortAddress is MASK
  0 : powerCycleSeen

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This script:

./test_dali_cli.sh

prepares a virtual environment, and then runs the tests. Optionally you can add --log-level=debug for more detailed logging.

git clone [email protected]:SvenHaedrich/dali_cli.git
cd dali_cli
git submodule update --init
python3 -m venv --prompt dali .venv
source .venv/bin/activate
python3 -m pip install -e .