I want to control some DALI devices through Labview. The problem is that I cannot find any devices that would allow interfacing the DALI line with a serial or USB port. Actually there are a couple on the market but they can be used only with their dedicated software and the manufacturers do not give any information about them. So before I start searching around with port sniffers and reverse-engineering I was wondering if anyone has ever been dealing with this. I am pretty new in Labview and port sniffing and decoding seems quite hard to me, at least for the time being. I did not manage to find anything in the Internet yet but any help or suggestions would be highly appreciated.
I've had a search around all our history and past communications but I've been unable to find anyone using LabVIEW to interface to a DALI device, nor was there anything on ni.com/idnet. Looks like you might be in the deep end and thus about to write your own API for the instrument, I'm afraid. If you do have to go down this route try out NI IO Trace, formerly known as NI Spy (which should be installed if you have the LabVIEW development environment installed).
Thanks for the information, although the only one that I can currently find is a complete DALI testing system. Anyway we started compiling our own software module and it seems to be working good (although a bit primitive at this point).
I will contact these guys anyway, they seem quite competent in the DALI systems.
Did you make any progress. We're facing similar problems. We need to control some DALI LED drivers but cannot find good soft/hardware combinations to make a fully programmable controller. What was your final solution?
Our company subocntracted this to a another guy but unfortunately is a bespoke code which I got compiled. Unfortunately I cannot offer any assistance as I don't have the source code plus it is IP of the company right now. I (and I believe many others) would appreciate it really if anyone has come up with an open source code, even if it is partially working.
