Hello @mailgoe, I got exactly that setup with the Atios Bridge and the Casambi gateway as on your photo.
Now I must admit after trying a bit in various directions that I’m quite lost on how to make my lights from the Casambi network get visible in Home Assistant.
Under Accessory Manager, I tried to create a few “DALI Light”, which ultimately get visible into HA (after a few reboots from HA and/or Atios Bridge), but I somehow must fail to understand what I’m supposed to put into the Ballast Address. In the Casambi app, in my case the Tridonic app, I find my devices and the only thing that somehow looks like an address is the “Unit ID” 7, otherwise I see a “DALI address” set to A0 for instance, but neither of these “addresses” (7 or 0 in that context) seems to have any effect, I just cannot switch on/off the light I tried to configure in HA.
I’m unsure if the address is wrong, if I need to reboot AB or HA after each change of address, if “Broadcast” would be the way to go instead, …
Would you mind shedding some light (!) on how to configure this? Would be so kind!
Hi Xavier, best is to contact me by email (the one from the purchase confirmation of the online shop, or via the contact form on our website). In general:
In the Casambi / Tridonic App you need to set the functionality of the Casambi CBU-DCS to “DALI Gateway”.
In the same App you need to turn on the options “Export Light Control”, and “Export CCT Changes” and set the priority to “Manual Control”. See Screenshot1.
Once that is done, press “Scan DALI Devices” in the App, to assign DALI addresses to your Casambi lights. See Screenshot2.
These assigned DALI addresses you can then add to Atios SmartCore in the Webinterface in the “Accessory Manager”. All changes made to Atios SmartCore in the web-interface need to be saved, and the device then rebooted, before they take affect in HA.
Many thanks for the hints! It took me some time to find my way in the Tridonic app but finally understood how to change the functionality of the Casambi CBU-DCS to “DALI Gateway”. I first had to remove it from my network so that the change was possible, then changed its mode and added it again.
Then I found multiple ways of triggering “some” Scan DALI Devices. But had a hard time getting the actual list of assigned addresses below, as on your screenshot, I guess I got it finally using one of the options of the context menu when pressing DALI Configuration (on your screenshot).
Then I configured all accessories, rebooted, did the pairing and everything again in HA, just to be sure, and ended up seeing my 5 devices in HA, which I then manually identified to give them some meaningful name.
So thankful 1) that this Atios gateway actually does what I was expecting and 2) that you could help me with those final steps.
You are welcome, glad it was resolved, and yes I agree. The CBU-DCS unit is a bit weird to figure out. I also always try out all the options until I manage to assign DALI addresses to the Casambi devices…
Hi flimofly . I have followed your guide . Once the ESP32 bluetooth proxy was added I was able to find the " casambi_bt" device discovered in my devices. But when i try to add the device it ask for a password . Can you help me on how to find the Occhio/casambi password
Try the password you set up in your Occhio air app. That app allows you to connect via bluetooth to each luminaire and create a network of luminaires with a password. You need that app anyway to update the firmware once in a while.
