Patent ID: 11950344
Assignee: TRIDONIC GMBH & CO KG
Field: Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 12:
13. A method for controlling DALI devices of a DALI lighting system, in which an apparatus is connected to a DALI-bus of said DALI lighting system via an interface of the apparatus and stores addresses of the DALI devices and device type information of each DALI device connected to a DALI-bus, wherein the method comprises the steps of:
transmitting, by a Bluetooth transmitter of the apparatus, the addresses and the device type information to a mobile commissioning device;
receiving, by the Bluetooth transmitter, configuration information defining behavior of the DALI devices from the mobile commissioning device; and
configuring, by the apparatus, the DALI devices based on the configuration information;
wherein at least one of the DALI devices is adapted to generate an identification signal, when DALI device is operated by a user to perform an identification operation, and the method further comprises the steps of:
receiving, via the interface, the identification signal generated and transmitted by the DALI device; and
transmitting, by the Bluetooth transmitter, to the mobile commissioning device, the address assigned to the DALI device operated by the user;
providing an optical indication on a graphical user interface of the mobile commissioning device that the identification operation has been performed by the user for said DALI device in response to receiving the address assigned to the DALI device operated by the user to perform the identification operation.