Immediate installation verification
Verify immediately if gears are connected correctly across the entire bus and ensure they will be flawlessly detected by the master controller.
Pilo Technology 
The definitive DALI diagnostic tool
Diagnosing a DALI bus typically requires a laptop, a DALI-USB converter, an external bus power supply, and an oscilloscope. Pilo One replaces this mountain of inconvenient gear with a single, pocket-sized device and an intuitive mobile app.
For Whom
A thoughtful tool for every stage of work
Whether you are laying wires, managing construction, or programming advanced lighting scenarios – Pilo One simplifies and accelerates your work.
Painless commissioning
Easily modify detailed gear parameters on the fly, resolve addressing conflicts, optimize your commissioning workflow, and generate complete commissioning reports.
Time is money
Equip your teams with tools that drastically reduce troubleshooting time. Fewer delays on site mean higher margins for the project.
Diagnostics
Active tracking of electrical, addressing, and low-quality DALI device issues
Pilo One continuously monitors the DALI bus and instantly detects common problems encountered during lighting installation and commissioning.
Electrical bus errors
Detecting DALI bus short circuits, incorrect wire polarity, missing system power, and bus current overload.
Addressing conflicts
Instant identification of duplicated or missing Short Addresses of devices.
Broken control gears
Locating specific device addresses (control gears/input devices) that do not respond to protocol queries.
Individual signal analysis
Precise measurement of signal quality (LQI) for each device individually, making it easy to locate issues on the DALI bus.
Certification verification
Automatic checking of device identifiers against the official DALI Alliance database to detect uncertified replacements, plus automatic detection of manufacturer and model.
Logging false triggers
Continuous monitoring and command recording to catch and analyze unwanted, spontaneous lighting activations on site.
Modular App
All DALI tools in a single application
Eight specialized modules, one app — analyze, control, configure, and document the entire DALI bus directly from your phone.
Monitor
Watch the DALI bus in real time, frame by frame. See every command as it happens, check signal quality with detailed DALI Signal Quality Indicator (LQI) analysis, and decode traffic down to the bit — without touching the line.
Miner
Automatically scan DALI devices, view and modify their parameters, and re-address them in a tap. Detect and non-invasively resolve short address conflicts before they cause a callback.
Inspector
Get the full picture before you write a report. Pull parameters, status flags, and driver and input results from every device on the line into clear, organized tables, including full manufacturer and model identification — the detail your reports are built from.
Operator
Take direct control, one tap at a time. Turn drivers on or off, recall direct light levels, dim to an exact level, control color temperature and colors in DT8 devices (CCT/RGBW/XY), trigger any scene, or send an input command — and watch the device respond live.
Tuner
Dial in how fixtures behave when no one's watching. Set power-on levels, fade times, DALI groups, and scene programming for every driver — the configuration that keeps a site behaving correctly long after you've left it.
Builder
Build once, reuse forever. The module allows you to build complex DALI scripts from ready-made blocks and use them to batch read, write, or modify device parameters on subsequent similar jobs.
Mapper
Turn the dongle into a physical remote. Map a scene recall, a level change, or a driver reset onto a short, long, or double press of either onboard button, save it to the hardware, and trigger it directly from the device — no phone required.
Reports
Generate professional, client-ready reports in PDF format directly from your phone. Consolidate diagnostic logs, address lists, and line status scans from Monitor, Miner, and Inspector into a clean handover — instantly.
Monitor
Watch the DALI bus in real time, frame by frame. See every command as it happens, check signal quality with detailed DALI Signal Quality Indicator (LQI) analysis, and decode traffic down to the bit — without touching the line.
Miner
Automatically scan DALI devices, view and modify their parameters, and re-address them in a tap. Detect and non-invasively resolve short address conflicts before they cause a callback.
Inspector
Get the full picture before you write a report. Pull parameters, status flags, and driver and input results from every device on the line into clear, organized tables, including full manufacturer and model identification — the detail your reports are built from.
Operator
Take direct control, one tap at a time. Turn drivers on or off, recall direct light levels, dim to an exact level, control color temperature and colors in DT8 devices (CCT/RGBW/XY), trigger any scene, or send an input command — and watch the device respond live.
Tuner
Dial in how fixtures behave when no one's watching. Set power-on levels, fade times, DALI groups, and scene programming for every driver — the configuration that keeps a site behaving correctly long after you've left it.
Builder
Build once, reuse forever. The module allows you to build complex DALI scripts from ready-made blocks and use them to batch read, write, or modify device parameters on subsequent similar jobs.
Mapper
Turn the dongle into a physical remote. Map a scene recall, a level change, or a driver reset onto a short, long, or double press of either onboard button, save it to the hardware, and trigger it directly from the device — no phone required.
Reports
Generate professional, client-ready reports in PDF format directly from your phone. Consolidate diagnostic logs, address lists, and line status scans from Monitor, Miner, and Inspector into a clean handover — instantly.
Real-world Case
Solving DALI bus congestion in minutes
DALI installations can become unresponsive due to misconfigured devices flooding the bus. Here is how Pilo One diagnoses and resolves a major commercial installation lag.
1. Latency Detected Commands take seconds to execute. Lights are laggy and the cause is unknown.
Sniff
2. Connect Pilo Plug Pilo One into the line. It reads bus traffic and configs over Bluetooth.
Analyze
3. AI Diagnosis Pilo Agent flags 5 light sensors reporting lux levels every 1s.
Resolve
4. Fixed Instantly AI sets reporting to 20s and enables hysteresis, immediately clearing the lag.
Artificial Intelligence
Pilo Agent — Autonomous DALI debugging assistant
Standard DALI-USB interfaces connected by cable to a laptop only display raw data frames or hex codes that must be painstakingly deciphered from printed specifications.
Pilo Agent brings an active, agentic AI approach directly to hardware. It goes beyond warning outputs by actively planning step-by-step resolution sequences: finding addressing conflicts, blinking gears for physical localization, and writing DALI bus configuration parameters. All it requires is your authorization to execute.
Pilo Agent
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Specifications
Technical Specifications
| DALI Bus Power | 16 V DC (230 mA guaranteed, 250 mA max limit) • Switchable active / passive modes |
| Battery Life | Passive mode: >16 hours • Active mode: >8 hours (at 230mA DALI load) |
| Logging Storage | Up to 12 hours of continuous DALI bus traffic logs |
| DALI Interface | 2x 4 mm safety sockets |
| Data Interface | Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) |
| USB-C Power | USB Power Delivery (USB-PD) support |
| User Interface | 2x programmable hardware buttons |
| Dimensions & Weight | 165 mm x 80 mm x 27 mm • 280 g (Device) |
FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions
Find answers to common questions about Pilo One DALI diagnostic tool and its capabilities
How to commission a DALI bus efficiently? expand_more
To commission a DALI bus on-site, you need to verify wiring, scan all control gears, and resolve addressing conflicts. Pilo One simplifies DALI commissioning by automatically scanning the bus, identifying all connected ballasts/drivers, and allowing you to modify parameters directly from a mobile app. The Pilo Agent AI guides you through complex group configurations and scene settings, streamlining the handover process.
How to debug DALI-2 issues and protocol errors? expand_more
To debug DALI-2 issues, you must monitor command frames, check for addressing conflicts, and look for collision errors. Pilo One provides a real-time frame sniffer (Dali Monitor) that decodes DALI-2 commands, monitors the Link Quality Indicator (LQI), and logs traffic. The AI-driven debugger analyzes this data to point out duplicated short addresses and sensor flooding, making DALI-2 troubleshooting fast and intuitive.
What tools are needed to troubleshoot a DALI bus physical layer? expand_more
When you troubleshoot a DALI bus, physical layer diagnostics are essential to detect signal distortion, voltage degradation, and noise. Instead of carrying a heavy oscilloscope to the site, Pilo One acts as a digital DALI physical layer diagnostic interface. It samples bit-level timing (Manchester encoding), verifies signal thresholds, and measures voltage drops over long cable runs, visualizing physical bus health on your phone.
Does DALI-2 commissioning require an active bus power supply? expand_more
Standard DALI-2 commissioning requires a system power supply on the bus. Pilo One comes with a switchable, integrated active DALI bus power supply (16V DC, 230mA guaranteed). This enables you to power up, test, and commission a line of up to 64 control gears without any pre-installed electrical infrastructure, perfect for early-stage construction verification.
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