Products for Digital Strom, matter and Standalone Automation Solutions
plan44.ch Digital Strom bridge products - P44-DSB-D
P44-DSB-D extends your Digital Strom system by third-party light technologies DALI and hue.
Thanks to the integrated matter bridge (currently beta), you can integrate the P44-DSB-D-based lights and other devices into other personal SmartHome environments of your choice in addition to Digital Strom, and operate them via a voice assistant, for example.
P44-DSB-D is a more economic solution if you just need DALI integration (and maybe hue), but no EnOcean. For combined DALI/EnOcean integration, please see P44-DSB-DEH2.
P44-DSB-D uses the Digital Strom virtual device connector technology to seamlessly integrate new devices such that these become as simple to use as regular Digital Strom devices.
A single P44-DSB-D device connects to up to 64 DALI dimmable lights plus Philips "hue" color LED lights (via the standard hue bridge)
The P44-DSB-D is a cost effective way to extend a Digital Strom system with DALI lights which include a wide variety of luminaires in LED and other technologies. DALI has become standard for LED gear in particular, and many luminaires, simple and exclusive designer light alike, come with DALI-capable drivers included or as a purchase option. It only requires a single P44-DSB-D to connect up to 64 DALI lights into a Digital Strom system.
The P44-DSB-D firmware can be updated by a simple press of a button to receive support for new devices, new features and general improvements.
The firmware is based on plan44.ch's modular "vdcd" and "p44mbrd" open source projects, which allows for custom modifications and extension to be implemented by plan44.ch upon request as well as by third parties.
More Information
- Firmware info + supported devices list
- P44-DSB-D manual, PDF
- P44-DSB products leaflet, PDF
- P44-DSB Sensor Evaluators manual, PDF
- New: P44-DSB - Information for installation and support
- P44-techdocs, advanced scripting and configuration
- P44-DSB-D - EU Statement of Conformity (DoC)
- P44-DSB Dimensions+Connections, PDF
- PPoE kit for P44-DSB/LC - manual, PDF
- FAQ + Support
- Visit the plan44 community forum.
Available
- Online from plan44.ch directly (Switzerland only), via Digital Strom vendors or electrical wholesalers
News
DALI - dimmable (color) lights, simple 2-wire bus
DALI is a mature and widely used industry standard (IEC 62386) for lighting devices.
P44-DSB-D brings the simplicity of Digital Strom's plug and play concept to the growing range of DALI
enabled lights - LED power supplies and fluorescent tube ballasts likewise.
Just connect them to
the bus and these lamps become part of the Digital Strom system.
Up to 64 DALI slave devices can be connected to a two wire bus. The bus is powered and controlled by the P44-DSB-D, which acts as the DALI master.
Unlike some other DALI master devices, the P44-DSB-D does not need any manual configuration of DALI devices, but automatically detects all devices connected, and makes them available as Digital Strom compatible lights.
The device works with preconfigured DALI devices (existing short addresses) or new unconfigured devices from factory. Bus address collisions can be resolved via the web interface.
Compatible DALI devices are available from many vendors, including Unidim, Osram, Tridonic, TCI, Meanwell, TCI, Helvar and many more.
DALI control gear (e.g. presence detectors or illumination sensors) is not supported and can interfere with operation of the P44-DSB-D. Please use respective Digital Strom terminal blocks or EnOcean sensors instead.
Currently supported DALI profiles:
Functionality | Profile(s) | Status |
---|---|---|
DALI multi channel dimmer used for RGB or RGBW lamps | color dimmer | full Digital Strom dSS level integration RGB or RGBW dimmer groups can be configured as a single full color light and appear as a single device with color controls in the dSS |
DALI single channel dimmer | dimmer | full Digital Strom dSS level integration Works like yellow dimmer terminal blocks |
DALI dimmer group | dimmer group | full Digital Strom dSS level integration Multiple DALI dimmer devices, grouped together on the DALI level to act like a single yellow dimmer terminal block. All dimmers in a group have perfectly synchronized timing. |
DALI DT8 (device type 8) tunable white and color lights | DT8 | full Digital Strom dSS level integration DT8 DALI devices can support color and tunable white using only a single DALI address. |
DALI dual channel dimmer used for tunable white lamps | tunable white dimmer | full Digital Strom dSS level integration Two dimmers can be configured as a single light with tunable color temperature |
- full / partial Digital Strom dSS level integration
- full / partial integration via task specific dSS apps
- full / partial low level integration, but device features accessible for app development only at this time
- Supported as beta version
- Integration planned for a future firmware release
hue - colorful LED lights, wirelessly controlled
"hue" lights are colored LED lights from Philips/Signify, which can be wirelessly controlled via smartphone apps and third party software
P44-DSB-D makes hue lights become part of your Digital Strom light scenes. Create your multi-colored light scenes, then recall them by simply pressing the light switch.
The P44-DSB-D automatically detects and connects to the "hue" bridge by press of a button. Once connected, all hue lights appear as Digital Strom (yellow) light devices. All normal hue functionality remains unaffected, you can still control the lights via hue mobile app, the hue cloud and third party apps. The monochrome hue "lux" and tunable white "ambient" lights are also supported.
Currently supported hue profiles:
Functionality | Profile(s) | Status |
---|---|---|
hue tunable white (ambiance) lamp | ambiance | full Digital Strom dSS level integration |
hue color lamp | hue | full Digital Strom dSS level integration |
LivingColors mood light | LivingColors | full Digital Strom dSS level integration |
hue lux warm white lamp | lux | full Digital Strom dSS level integration |
- full / partial Digital Strom dSS level integration
- full / partial integration via task specific dSS apps
- full / partial low level integration, but device features accessible for app development only at this time
- Supported as beta version
- Integration planned for a future firmware release
Other device integrations supported
P44 devices support a lot of other device integrations thanks to the powerful built-in p44script scriping language.
With Scripted devices, integrating third-party SmartHome devices for example via HTTP/REST APIs, modbus, or plain TCP/UDP socket connections can be done with a few lines of p44script. Project-specific versions of the P44-xx devices have additional hardware capabilities, such as SmartLED data outputs, analog/digital I/O, DC motor drivers etc. which can all be leveraged to create fully integrated devices with standard Digital Strom light/color/shade/sensor behaviours as needed.
Functionality | Profile(s) | Status |
---|---|---|
matter bridging | ||
Full color lights or with color temperature setting | color control | Supported as beta version |
Devices with a 0..100% level, such as dimmable lights | level control | Supported as beta version |
On/off devices | on/off | Supported as beta version |
Sensors | Sensors | Supported as beta version |
Custom devices implemented in p44script on-device | ||
custom devices implemented in p44script via web interface | p44script devices | full Digital Strom dSS level integration |
- full / partial Digital Strom dSS level integration
- full / partial integration via task specific dSS apps
- full / partial low level integration, but device features accessible for app development only at this time
- Available in custom P44-xx device versions (please enquire)
- Supported as beta version
- Available in Special/Custom P44-xx device versions (please enquire), as well as in P44-xx-X images (free, DIY)
- Integration planned for a future firmware release
Open Source - the basis of P44-DSB-D
P44-DSB-D is based on plan44.ch's "vdcd" virtual device connector daemon and "p44mbrd" plan44 matter bridge daemon open source projects, as well as the OpenWrt embedded Linux platform. Being based on open source, the P44-DSB-D allows third parties to contribute features and build their own versions for experiments and support of new hardware. "vdcd" and "p44mbrd" are not restricted to run on the P44-DSB-D but can be used on different platforms.
However, only buying the P44-DSB-D product from plan44.ch entitles you to get ready-to-use firmware updates from plan44.ch.
"Digital Strom" is a registered trademark of Digital Strom AG, Schlieren, Schweiz, see digitalstrom.com
"DALI" is a registered trademark of the Zentralverband Elektrotechnik- und Elektronikindustrie e.V., see dali-ag.org
“Hue Personal Wireless Lighting” is a trademark owned by Koninklijke Philips Electronics, N.V., see meethue.com
“EnOcean” is a registered trademark of EnOcean GmbH, 82041 Oberhaching, Deutschland, see enocean.com