Owner's Manual (Complete)

Chapter 9—Groups
8 The Home Control Assistant
2. Click Delete.
HCA removes the group name from the design pane, and removes the group icon from the
display.
Warning: Be sure to check all aspects of a group before you delete it. If you delete a group, it
is gone, and schedule entries you created for it are destroyed, and any programs that control it are
put into a state where they will not start.
Hint: You can use the Undo command on the Edit menu to restore the deleted group. It will undo
just the last change you have made—so if you delete two groups in succession, you can
undo the deletion of only the second one.
Groups and Switch Stored Scenes
If any switches in the group are capable of storing scenes then the group can be thought of as
containing those scenes as well.
For example, suppose that your group contains three devices: Lights1, Light2, and Light3.
Further, suppose that the three lights have these scenes defined:
Light1: Late Night, TV, Dinner
Light2: Late Night, Welcome Home, Dinner
Light3: Late Night, TV, Welcome Home
When you right click on the group, in addition to the ON, OFF, and Dim menu selections in the
popup menu it also contains, Late Night, TV, Dinner, and Welcome Home.
If you select any of those scene names then the commands to activate that scene is sent to any of
the group members that have that scene defined for it.
In the same way if you schedule the group and select a scene name, or create a program with a
Scene element using the group and a scene, then HCA sends the scene activation command to
those members with the scene. If you select a scene that is not defined in each group member, the
troubleshooter flags the schedule or program because you may want to know that you are
controlling the group with a scene that is not defined in each member.