Line Devices

The Line Devices section displays the DALI ECG devices physically connected to the DALI-2 gateway, provided a C-Bus interface is connected to the C-Bus network and the software is able to communicate to this interface.

Fields	Description
Object ID	Displays the object Id which ranges between 0-63
Short Address	Displays the short address of the device (the physical device address) ranges between 0–63
Device Types	Displays the type of the device
Faulty Status	Displays the applicable faulty status if the device have any faults
Name	Displays the name of the device
Description	Displays the description of the device
Exists in Project	Displays Yes, if device is reconciled with a project device else displays No
DG (DALI Groups 1–16)	Displays the selected DALI groups for each DALI device which is read-only
Application	Displays the selected device's application address that the device has been assigned
C-Bus Group	Displays the selected C-Bus group address the device has been assigned

The Operations that can be performed in this section are:

Scan

Prerequisites: The DALI-2 gateway must already be added and DALI line must be selected before scanning.

The Scan option scans for the DALI ECG devices connected to the DALI-2 gateway.

Quick DALI scan: Quick DALI scan is the default scan which can be done using which scans the DALI devices, device types and assigned short addresses.

Performing Quick DALI scan will:

Address all unaddressed devices
Discover all devices connected to the DALI gateway
Discover all missing, duplicate and broken devices

IMPORTANT: Trying to close a project while scanning is in progress is not possible.

Extended DALI scan: Extended DALI Scan will first run a Quick DALI Scan of the DALI Line before proceeding with Extended DALI Scan.

Extended DALI Scan will scan the attributes/properties of all the DALI devices on the DALI line.

Performing Extended DALI scan will:

Do Quick Scan
Get DALI Group, DALI Scene, DALI device levels properties (Min, Max, Recovery & Fail)

Extended DALI scan can be performed by clicking drop-down and selecting extended DALI scan.

Full Gateway scan: Full Gateway Scan will scan all the attributes/properties of all the DALI devices on both DALI lines and C-Bus DALI-2 Gateway.

Full Gateway scan can be performed by clicking drop-down and selecting Full Gateway scan.

Performing Full Gateway scan will:

Scan both DALI lines
Quick Scan
Extended Scan
Display Serial Number and GTIN number
Display all DALI & C-Bus properties
Will allow users to fully extract DALI Devices and rebuild the project from Scratch

Auto Identify

Prerequisites: The line devices must be scanned.

The Auto Identify function is one of the many methods to identify the live device on the line to reconcile with the project device. Once the Auto Identify function is turned on, you can easily click on a device to start the identify process. The Identify process will flash the selected device on and off until it times out or you have clicked on another device.

Once the device is identifying and you have not stop the identify function, the load will switch off after a certain time frame.

IMPORTANT: All the devices have a time-out of 30 seconds. DT6, DT8 and Generic device types can stop identify manually but DT1 types cannot be stop until its time-out.

Select the device in the Line devices section
Click in the Line Devices section

NOTE: It turns green when ON
If the physical device starts flashing, it is indicated as the device has been identified.
NOTE:
- Identifying the device is stopped once another device is been selected
- Emergency devices being identified have a time-out to stop (20 seconds)
- A device can also be stopped from identifying manually by right-clicking and selecting stop identify
Select and right-click the identified device in the Devices in Project section and choose Reconcile.

Identify

The identifying of the device can also be performed using identify function in the context menu.

Select the device in the line device section
Click > Identify

If the physical device starts flickering, then the device is been identified.

Address all Unaddressed

When the DALI devices are scanned the addresses are assigned automatically.

If there are devices on the network which has no address assigned, devices can be addressed manually using > Address Unaddressed

This will assign the short address to the unaddressed devices

Discover Faults

DALI line Scanning process will discover the device faults. Fault devices are discovered, if the device is broken, missing or duplicated.

To reconfirm once the fault devices have been resolved Discover faults can be performed.

To run discover faults, click > Discover Faults

A DALI device can have multiple fault statuses, which is resolved one at a time.

NOTE: The scanning process takes a while depending on the number of devices on DALI line.

IMPORTANT: Make sure to fix the faults before refreshing fault status.

To update the status of fault devices, right click on Line device section > Refresh Fault status

DALI Broken Devices

DALI devices having a physical defect results in Broken device. Example, for emergency devices if the battery is removed then it results in broken fault status.

The broken fault device can be resolved by removing the device from gateway or by connecting the battery back to the device.

IMPORTANT:

The physical device has to be removed first before removing in Line Device
Or instead of removing the broken device, fix the broken device and perform scanning again

To remove the broken DALI device, right click on Broken DALI device > Remove device

IMPORTANT: Make sure all the faults have been resolved before proceeding with the commissioning process.

DALI Missing Devices

When the DALI devices are moved from one DALI Line to another and is scanned in the former line, DALI missing device is discovered.

NOTE: A DALI device is displayed as missing if the Gateway has not received any response from the device ( based on the number of times that the user has defined in the configuration of the Gateway way under each line “Missing Device Threshold”. By default, the threshold is 2. If the gateway have 2 reports that the device is missing, then device is displayed as missing).

This missing device can be resolved either by removing the device from the line or replacing the device from the line. Once either of the function is applied and is scanned again, the discovered DALI device faults would be resolved.

To remove the missing DALI device from line, right click on Missing DALI device > Remove device

To replace the missing DALI device from line, right click on Missing DALI device > Replace device

NOTE: When the missing device is discovered, the gateway also notifies by displaying yellow indicator on the physical gateway device.

IMPORTANT: When replacing, the new device must be placed in same location and same network of the existing device.

DALI Duplicate Devices

Two DALI devices having the same short address while scanning the DALI line results in DALI duplicate devices. This duplicate device can be resolved by resetting the device.

To reset a duplicate device, right click on Duplicate device > Reset device

Once reset is done, re-scan the DALI Line to discover the reset device.

NOTE: Reset devices function will reset the short address, Object ID and is cleared from the Gateway memory but does not reset the DALI group or DALI scene configurations.

Reset all Devices

All DALI devices in the Line device section can reset their short addresses together by using > Reset All Devices

IMPORTANT: An individual DALI device short address reset can also be performed using Reset function.

Select the DALI device in Line Device section
Right click > Reset Device

NOTE: Reset all devices function will reset all the short address, Object ID and clears it from the Gateway memory but does not reset the DALI group or DALI Scene configurations.

NOTE: Reset device will perform Quick Scan or an Extended Scan when resetting device(s) is completed.

Sort

Prerequisites: The DALI gateway and DALI devices must already be added in the network.

The DALI Devices in the live network can be sorted using and selecting an appropriate sort method.

Remove Device

When the DALI faults are discovered, the faulted devices can either be removed or replaced. To remove the faulted DALI device the Remove device function is used.

Select the DALI device in Line Device section
Right click > Remove Device

Perform Quick Scan or an Extended Scan when finished remove device(s).

Replace Device

When the DALI faults are discovered, the faulted devices can either be removed or replaced with new DALI devices which gets assigned with new short addresses. To replace the faulted DALI device, Replace device function is used.

Select the DALI device in Line Device section
Right click > Replace Device

Perform Quick Scan or an Extended Scan when finished replace device(s).

To Extract DALI devices from Network to Project

Prerequisites: Make sure DALI-2 Gateway device is already added to network and DALI line is been selected. A full DALI line scan has to be performed.

TIP: Reconciliation can also be done either by 50/50 process or by manually.

Scan the selected DALI line in the Line Devices section
Select the DALI device that needs to transferred from network to project

IMPORTANT: If the DALI device is been selected from the project section, make sure the short address of DALI device is same in both project and network. If not, readdress the device to match the same.
Click in Line Device section

NOTE: Transferring all the DALI devices together from network to project can also be performed using Extract all devices to project (

drop-down) in the Line Device section.

Load Properties

Commissioning DALI devices can be done by setting their properties.

Select the device in Line network
Right click on the section Line network > Load properties

This will load the properties of selected device in the Property window