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Description
Our AL-DALI-HAT DALI master Controller connects your Raspberry Pi to LED lighting via the
internationally used DALI bus, Digital Addressible Lighting Interface - you can read about DALI here on Wikipedia The DALI bus is not natively compatible with the GPIO pins of the
Raspberry Pi - so our DALI HAT handles the interface.
Our AL-DALI-HAT DALI gateway has a microprocessor onboard to convert the Pi serial port ( TTYS0 at 19200 baud, one stop bit, no parity ) to
the Manchester encoding and 16 volt signals used by DALI. You send ASCII strings to the Hat, it transmits them as DALI, then converts the responses to ASCII
strings for the response.
We have provided sample code in Python to run on the Raspberry Pi, you can turn any light on/off or dim in individual, group or broadcast modes
The Pi has 2 serial ports - the one that we are connected to is on the 40 pin header pins 8 and 10. Then Pi now
can turn lights on the DALI bus on, off, dim - can set fade rates and all other DALI features. Any DALI device can be
addressed and configured.
A separately available complete DALI software package called LorControl can be installed on the Pi to assign short addresses, read advanced parameters
and provide a friendly user interface, and communicate to Alexa or Google Home. Today, on this page, we are simply showing the basic code to get the hardware working for you.
We like to run the Monitor_DALI.py at startup automatically - you can do this by editing the autostart file
and entering the run command
edit this file: ~/.config/lxsession/LXDE-pi/autostart
add this line at the end: @lxterminal --title=DALI_Monitor --geometry=70x66 --command python /home/pi/Monitor_DALI.py
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