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ADDICT v3.0.1 User Manual DALI Functionality

Chasing

Chasing is used to light up addresses or groups within a specified range one after the other.

During chasing, the address or group currently being “chased” is set to maximum, and all other

devices are set to minimum.

Quick Chase

The ‘quick’ does not refer to the speed of the chase, rather it means that you want to chase the

connected lights one after the other without specifying a start address or group or an end

address or group or even the steps – all of which can be done under the Advanced Chase menus.

During a quick chase, addresses or groups that aren’t detected on the DALI line will be skipped.

Once the last address/group is reached, the chase will start again from the beginning.

Advanced Chase

A chase can be performed in either direction (i.e. in increasing order or in decreasing order) and

how much to increase/decrease by in each step can also be selected. When chasing reaches the

last address/group, it will start again from the first address/group and continue doing so until

the escape button is pressed.

The example will chase addresses starting at address 6, up to (and including) address 20, in

increasing order and every address will be chased (i.e. 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18,

19, 20, 6, 7, 8 … etc).

The direction of chasing depends on whether the end value is greater or less than the start

value, and is always indicated by + or – before Step. The step value can only be between 1 and

the absolute difference between start and end.

Selectable values:

• Start (0 - 63 for addresses, 0 – 15 for groups) – the address/group to chase chasing from

• End (0 - 63 for addresses, 0 – 15 for groups) – the last address/group that will be chased

before wrapping-around to the start address/group

• Step (1 – diff between start and end) – how many addresses/groups to

increment/decrement by during chasing. Press enter to start chasing.

Sniffing

With Sniffing, the ADDICT

no longer behaves as a DALI controller (although it still supplies

power to the DALI line if required). Instead, it just “sniffs” for any other activity on the line

(between the devices and other controllers) and then records and displays those packets that

were detected. The ADDICT

also records the time that each packet was detected (measured in

seconds after sniffing was started).

The recorded packets can also be stored in eeprom memory of the ADDICT

(so they’re not lost

when the ADDICT

is turned off) and can even downloaded to a PC for further analysis.

The Sniffing menu item is in fact a menu itself, and contains the following four menu items:

• Start Sniffing