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(TL;DR: use Lunatone's DALI Cockpit SW to talk to your python-dali using an emulated protocol.) My USB-to-DALI interface is connected to a tiny headless Pi Zero, which is running some Python code (built on top of python-dali) for stuff like circadian color temperature control, automatic blinds, automatic light based on movement, etc. This all works well, but every now and then I have a need to run Lunatone's DALI Cockpit to perform some changes in my devices' configuration. That's a Windows application, so I would usually fire up a VM with Windows and the DALI Cockpit, stop my automation, and then use usb-ip to export the USB device over network from my embedded server, e.g.: ssh [email protected] systemctl restart usbip-bind@17b5\:0020.service ...then import that at my desktop, e.g.: usbip attach -r private.example.org -b $(usbip list -p -r private.example.org | grep 17b5:0020 | cut '-d:' -f1 | awk '{print $1}') ...and finally attach that to the VM: echo "<hostdev mode='subsystem' type='usb' managed='yes'><source><vendor id='0x17b5'/><product id='0x0020'/></source><address type='usb' bus='0' port='3'/></hostdev>" | virsh attach-device win10 /dev/stdin That works, but it's a pain, and the automatic lights at the WC won't react to movement, and it's not great if it's dark in there. So I got fed up and wrote this tiny emulator of the Lunatone DALI-2 IoT Gateway. The idea is that you can run this on the Linux machine which has the USB-to-DALI interface already connected, and you can let your Windows VM connect to that over IP, using the device's emulated Websocket entry point. It's possible to run this either as a standalone application, or you can simply put it into your application code.
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(TL;DR: use Lunatone's DALI Cockpit SW to talk to your python-dali using an emulated protocol.)
My USB-to-DALI interface is connected to a tiny headless Pi Zero, which is running some Python code (built on top of python-dali) for stuff like circadian color temperature control, automatic blinds, automatic light based on movement, etc. This all works well, but every now and then I have a need to run Lunatone's DALI Cockpit to perform some changes in my devices' configuration.
That's a Windows application, so I would usually fire up a VM with Windows and the DALI Cockpit, stop my automation, and then use usb-ip to export the USB device over network from my embedded server, e.g.:
ssh [email protected] systemctl restart usbip-bind@17b5:0020.service
...then import that at my desktop, e.g.:
usbip attach -r private.example.org -b $(usbip list -p -r private.example.org | grep 17b5:0020 | cut '-d:' -f1 | awk '{print $1}')
...and finally attach that to the VM:
echo "
" | virsh attach-device win10 /dev/stdinThat works, but it's a pain, and the automatic lights at the WC won't react to movement, and it's not great if it's dark in there.
So I got fed up and wrote this tiny emulator of the Lunatone DALI-2 IoT Gateway. The idea is that you can run this on the Linux machine which has the USB-to-DALI interface already connected, and you can let your Windows VM connect to that over IP, using the device's emulated Websocket entry point. It's possible to run this either as a standalone application, or you can simply put it into your application code.