How to get DALI Ballast Status Report in Schedule Plus Software

[Zameer Amber]

Hi,

We have one project in which we have programmed group of DALI ballast of one area and mapped it with individual C-Bus group address.

However we checked that with this we are able to control individual light from our schedule plus software installed at a PC in LMS room.

But the issue which we are facing is
1)Not able to get the actual status of DALI lights on our PC ON/OFF.

2) That we are not able to get the status report of individual DALI ballast i.e if any of the ballast is faulty we doesn't get any feedback of that faulty ballast on our PC.


Please suggest.

[samluo]

Hi I am engineer of DALI ballast manufacturer. The problem may from these reasons:
1. ballasts do not have function of answer inside or can not answer in time, then any inquire commands can not get answers.
2. some ballasts have same address so their answers conflicted.
3. you try to inquire a group, but several ballasts in this group so their answers conflicted.
4. Your gateway not bidirectional, no feedback.
5. feedback wires or setting on PC have problems.

[samluo]

usually you can use a command called similar as : "Inquire actual dim level" on a unique short address to get status of a ballast.
if answer with 0, then lamp off
if answer >0 and <=254, then lamp on.
if answer with 255, then lamp failure.

[Darren]

But the issue which we are facing is
1)Not able to get the actual status of DALI lights on our PC ON/OFF.

Is this when some other DALI device switches the DALI load?


2) That we are not able to get the status report of individual DALI ballast i.e if any of the ballast is faulty we doesn't get any feedback of that faulty ballast on our PC.

The Error Reporting Application will show the status of DALI ballasts. The help file has some details.