Owner's Manual (Complete)

Chapter 10—Programs and the Visual Programmer
12 The Home Control Assistant
Snippet Wizard
The snippet wizard is started from the tool palette button, the one to the left of the arrow button.
What it does is to create sequences of elements and places them on the clipboard. Once the wizard
is done, you can paste these into your program where they are needed.
There are three different snippets that the wizard creates:
 Control lights over time. A sequence of elements to increase or decrease the illumination
level of a device or a given time. This only works well with devices that support advanced
dimming.
 Establish Scene. This captures the current illumination level of a set of devices you select.
Elements are created to send commands to set those lights to those same illumination levels.
 Test for start conditions. Constructs a sequence of test elements to test for all the possible
triggers for this program
Depending upon the snippet, the wizard may ask a series of questions or not. Once complete the
snippet is on the clipboard. Select the cell where it should go, right click and select Paste from the
popup menu.
Program Triggers
Before discussing what programs can do, let's first examine how program can be started.
Programs, unlike schedule entries, start when something happens in your home and usually not at
the same time each day. There are several possible kinds of triggers that start programs. These
are:
 Reception of X10 commands
 Insteon messages
 UPB Action
 UPB Powerline message
 Magic Module event
 Wireless Component Message
 Global Cache Sensor
 Weather Condition change
 Flag Value change
 Expression
 Special condition