i am new to home assistant and was looking to integerate dali lighting to HA , i am a noob and would like to know of a wiki or step by step procedure
You can start here: https://www.dali-alliance.org/
Dali like KNX, DMX is a bus system with the added bonus that its allowed to run in the same cable as your mains. So for a Dali Driver you’ll just need one 5 wire cable.
You will also need to have a hardware interface to communicate from your HA to Dali.
There are some gateways you could use or RPI hats made for just that and combine that with MQTT. Also there are Arduino projects that do this.
can you pls elaborate
The easiest way is to use Atios SmartCore, which can integrate up to 64 DALI lights (broadcast, addresses, groups) into Home Assistant (natively via HomeKit or Matter). Additionally the devices offers the following features:
- 12x integrated relay outputs for lights, blinds, heating valves, locks and garage doors
- 12x integrated binary inputs for push-buttons, motion detectors, window contacts and more.
- DALI interface for 64x addressable luminaires and 64x DALI-2 sensors such as motion detectors, temperature, brightness and AirQuality sensors.
- Integrated DALI Power Supply (can be optionally turned off)
- Integrated web interface for very easy configuration