licon — Lighting Control

A simple interface to DALI lighting, using python-dali.

Generates plain text reports from the command line, or emails HTML formatted reports.

Can issue some basic lighting control commands (DAPC etc.) from the command line, targetted at a single device, a group, a whole DALI bus or a whole site.

Currently assumes the DALI bus is connected via daliserver, but should be simple to adapt to other interfaces if necessary.

Configuration is in TOML. An abbreviated example:

[haymakers]

name = "Haymakers"
email-to = [
    "sde@individualpubs.co.uk",
    ]
email-from = "Lighting Status <sde@individualpubs.co.uk>"

[haymakers.buses]

main.hostname = "icarus.haymakers.i.individualpubs.co.uk"
main.port = 55825

[[haymakers.gear]]
bus = "main"
address = 46
name = "Garden corridor"

[[haymakers.gear]]
bus = "main"
address = 12
name = "Spirits store"

[[haymakers.gear]]
bus = "main"
address = 26
name = "Cellar back corner"

[[haymakers.gear]]
bus = "main"
address = 27
name = "Cellar entrance"
related-emergency = 11

Installation

First ensure poetry is installed, then clone this repository.

Run poetry install to install the various dependencies.

Basic usage

Check all sites with a verbose report:

poetry run licon -v check

Send reports by email:

poetry run licon email

Send the "Up" command to a light:

poetry run licon up haymakers/main/12

Set a group of lights to a particular level:

poetry run licon level haymakers/main/g2 128

Broadcast the "Off" command on a bus:

poetry run licon off haymakers/main