Solution for controlling a single DALI light

Hello,

I’m new to OH (and to home automation) and somewhat overwhelmed by it. Can someone confirm whether the components below can be used to provide a solution for the situation described below?

I would like to suspend a proper office light over my home-office desk. I have been looking at an LED light that is dimmable and has a configurable color-temperature. The light manufacturer sells a proprietary wireless solution for controlling it using a smartphone app. This would involve some sort of wireless DALI-gateway that would sit in the lamp and be connected to the DALI ballast.

Instead of some nasty proprietary solution I’d like to use OH to talk to a ZigBee-to-DALI gateway mounted in the lamp. OH would run on my Linux (Fedora) desktop PC.

I am thinking about these components:

The LED office lamp I’m looking at is the Trilux Luceos H. (I would have included the link, but new users are only allowed two links :frowning: ).

Does this look reasonable? Would other components be better? Is the ZigBee protocol a good choice for this?

/treefrob

Zigbee2MQTT (to MQTT bidning) or OpenHAB’s Zigbee Binding with Zigbee devices is probably better:

https://www.zigbee2mqtt.io/MQTT - Bindings | openHAB

or

https://www.openhab.org/addons/bindings/zigbee/

Next problem is picking Zigbee USB Coordinator as they are all not all supported the same by those.

thank you. In the meantime I also came to the same conclusion. I have been looking at the Popp “ZB-Stick” USB ZigBee controller:

https://www.popp.eu/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/EN_POPP_ZB-Stick_with_OpenHAB.pdf

Assuming I can configure OH appropriately such that it can use the ZB controller and talk to the ZB-to-DALI gateway, my biggest worry is whether OH will be able to control the light (dimming and color temperature). Do you have any comments about this?

/treefrob

It will work with OpenHAB’s Zigbee Binding but support for Silicon Labs EZSP is experimental in Z2M:

https://www.zigbee2mqtt.io/guide/adapters/

Still, as OpenHAB’s Zigbee Binding does not yet support TI Z-Stack 3 used in Texas Instruments CC2652/CC1352 chip there is no other adapter that is a better option either for that matter. See:

https://community.openhab.org/t/discussion-about-texas-instruments-z-stack-3-0-and-cc2652-and-cc1352-zigbee-coordinator-adapters-with-openhab-zigbee-binding/129385

and

https://github.com/Koenkk/zigbee-herdsman/issues/319

Does Zigbee 3.0 DALI CONV LI not just present itself as standard Zigbee device using Zigbee protocol?

As I understand those are standard Zigbee 3.0 devices so it should really work with all Zigbee solutions.

https://media.osram.info/media/img/osram-dam-13970815//Zigbee_Folder_EN_310120.pdf

It should as they are at least list lited as tested/supported with Zigbee2MQTT should work with them all:

https://www.zigbee2mqtt.io/supported-devices/#s=dali