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Digital Strom bridge for DALI and hue

plan44.ch Digital Strom bridge products - P44-DSB-D

New Product - DALI (and hue), but w/o EnOcean

P44-DSB-D extends your Digital Strom system by third-party light technologies DALI and hue.

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" open source project, which allows for custom modifications and extension to be implemented by plan44.ch upon request as well as third parties.

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:

FunctionalityProfile(s)Status
DALI multi channel dimmer used for RGB or RGBW lampscolor 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 dimmerdimmer

full Digital Strom dSS level integration

Works like yellow dimmer terminal blocks

DALI dimmer groupdimmer 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 lightsDT8

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 lampstunable 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 with public beta firmware (please enquire)
  • 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:

FunctionalityProfile(s)Status
hue tunable white (ambiance) lampambiance

full Digital Strom dSS level integration

hue color lamphue

full Digital Strom dSS level integration

LivingColors mood lightLivingColors

full Digital Strom dSS level integration

hue lux warm white lamplux

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 with public beta firmware (please enquire)
  • 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.

FunctionalityProfile(s)Status
matter bridging
Full color lights or with color temperature settingcolor control

Supported with public beta firmware (please enquire)

Devices with a 0..100% level, such as dimmable lightslevel control

Supported with public beta firmware (please enquire)

On/off deviceson/off

Supported with public beta firmware (please enquire)

SensorsSensors

Supported with public beta firmware (please enquire)

Custom devices implemented in p44script on-device
custom devices implemented in p44script via web interfacep44script 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 with public beta firmware (please enquire)
  • 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 open source project, and 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" is 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