AdamN1

> You have a conventional switch ? That is not a standard DALI setup, DALI controllers should always be powered on and lamps turned on/off through a DALI switch Yes,...

> If lights are disconnected (not just off, but without any means of controlling through DALI) then their state should be `offline` and not `off` you mean case 2, yes?

When the lamp is in the offline state do we support topic for this lamp? I see one problem with offline state. When we raport state=offline to HA entity will...

> If the DALI device is powered off you cannot send any commands to it. In a DALI system devices are always connected (meaning they are powered) to the DALI...

> If you are using this to turn on your lights, I hope you don't have DALI in your bedroom, I wouldn't like to be waken up in the night...

> > Will you to accept PR with code for deleting missing lamps(remove from device.yaml)? By deleting I'm mean cleaning mqtt on the broker by the dali2mqtt. I know it's...

> > ...comparing mqtt topics from dali2mqtt with topics in the mqtt broker... > > What does this mean ? we only care about dali2mqtt topics... I mean search broker...

> my point is that we should: > > 1. always scan on dali2mqtt start > 2. we don't find a previous lamp? we set that lamp to offline >...

> > I mean search broker history for actually unsupported lamps. If we compare mqtt broker history with device.yaml we can find removed lamps and remove them from broker. >...

> strange.... I don't have a tridonic device myself to test :( > > @AdamN1 do you have a tridonic ? Unfortunately not, i will try search something and test.