The Dali lighting ballasts in G1 are starting to give up on us. This page is a place to ponder and over-engineer a replacement. This page is Allie designing a replacement that no-one asked for.

There are 18 DALI downlights in G1 right now, irregularly spread. It would require 21 to fully cover the area of ceiling currently covered by the DALIs, skipping every other tile.

* 30-channel 1440W LED controller - 30 channels of LED control at 2A/channel, 9V-24V input voltage. Designed for driving 10 LED strips but equally could drive 30 individual LEDs. About £25 per unit - we'd probably only need one unit for the white lights.

* 15W 24V LED Downlight - About £7/unit. LED “natural white” (about 4000K) downlights. Relatively inoffensive soft, white ambient lighting.

* Adjustable 24V LED Downlight Spot - for illuminating the kitchen / other fixed workspaces whilst ambient/soft light can be dimmed further.

DMX is the standard lighting control protocol. Art-net and sACN are two protocols for pushing DMX over a network. Allie has some designs for cheap sACN to DMX nodes based around the ESP8266, which have proven to be pretty reliable so far.

Control software will be required. QLC+ is open source and reasonably alright.