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DALI Lighting control with JMRI

leo pesce All Messages By This Member #234156 Ken, the late Parks really liked the DALI lighting control, which is newer than DMX.? Since this format is mostly?in Europe, has anyone in Europe tried with DALI.?(or hopefully here in the USA?) Cheers Leo P toggle quoted message Show quoted text On Wed, Sep 4, 2024 at 5:36?PM Ken Cameron via <kcameron=[email protected]> wrote: Keith, The trick is a lot of DMX interfaces exist, but many have slight differences. JMRI will work with it IF you find an interface that supports a serial type interface. Yes they are USB but for Windows, that means ones with drivers that show up as COMx devices. If JMRI every gets a Java USB level that gives the right support for some of the other forms of drivers, then it may be easier. Right now, I know it works for Windows based JMRI but I don't know if anyone has tried it with any Mac or Linux boxes. -Ken Cameron, Member JMRI Dev Team
danielb987 All Messages By This Member #234159 开云体育 Leo, Do you have a link to DALI? And information on where to buy it? Daniel On 2024-09-05 03:02, leo pesce wrote: toggle quoted message Show quoted text Ken, the late Parks really liked the DALI lighting control, which is newer than DMX.? Since this format is mostly?in Europe, has anyone in Europe tried with DALI.?(or hopefully here in the USA?) Cheers Leo P On Wed, Sep 4, 2024 at 5:36?PM Ken Cameron via <kcameron=[email protected]> wrote: Keith, The trick is a lot of DMX interfaces exist, but many have slight differences. JMRI will work with it IF you find an interface that supports a serial type interface. Yes they are USB but for Windows, that means ones with drivers that show up as COMx devices. If JMRI every gets a Java USB level that gives the right support for some of the other forms of drivers, then it may be easier. Right now, I know it works for Windows based JMRI but I don't know if anyone has tried it with any Mac or Linux boxes. -Ken Cameron, Member JMRI Dev Team
leo pesce All Messages By This Member #234161 Not really. David was the one that kept all that info and research. We talked about it. I remember at the time, and this goes back pre-pandemic, I had found a company in Italy that from the looks of it would give him the ability to interface with JMR/LCC but they wouldn't sell outside Europe. Everything else at that time was too expensive or DIY. He looked at DMX, but felt that it was lacking. He compared it to Loconet vs LCC. I will see if I can find anything in his notes ( I saved what I could though they are in a box, somewhere among 20+ boxes full of docs. I just do not have the time right now for that kind of search). Though a Google search of "DALI lighting control" did show quite a variety of equipment, and prices. I have no idea if they can take inputs, or just stand alone. Anyway, the bottom line is that DALI is coming this way and eventually become the standard for lighting control (mho). Cheers Leo P toggle quoted message Show quoted text On Wed, Sep 4, 2024, 8:37 PM danielb987 via <jmri=[email protected]> wrote: Leo, Do you have a link to DALI? And information on where to buy it? Daniel On 2024-09-05 03:02, leo pesce wrote: Ken, the late Parks really liked the DALI lighting control, which is newer than DMX.? Since this format is mostly?in Europe, has anyone in Europe tried with DALI.?(or hopefully here in the USA?) Cheers Leo P On Wed, Sep 4, 2024 at 5:36?PM Ken Cameron via <kcameron=[email protected]> wrote: Keith, The trick is a lot of DMX interfaces exist, but many have slight differences. JMRI will work with it IF you find an interface that supports a serial type interface. Yes they are USB but for Windows, that means ones with drivers that show up as COMx devices. If JMRI every gets a Java USB level that gives the right support for some of the other forms of drivers, then it may be easier. Right now, I know it works for Windows based JMRI but I don't know if anyone has tried it with any Mac or Linux boxes. -Ken Cameron, Member JMRI Dev Team

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