Owner's Manual (Complete)

Chapter 14—Visual Scene Editor
4 The Home Control Assistant
Note: If a scene has HCA as the controller, you must give the scene a name.
Testing a scene
To test a scene press the Activate or Deactivate buttons in the ribbon. Activate controls all the
scene devices to their level at the specified rates. Deactivate turns all the scene devices off.
There are some limitations of the Activate option and these will be described later.
Programming a scene
Programming a scene is very simple. Select Program from the ribbon. HCA uses the same dialog
in many places when remote communication is being performed with Insteon devices. This
checklist dialog shows each operation to be done and proceeds down the checklist operating on
each device in turn.
Actions that complete without error are checked off when done. The current action is shown with
the yellow arrow, and operations that fail show with a red X.
Depending upon the complexity of the scene, there may be a few actions or many.
When the programming is complete the
Stop button changes to Close.
Closing the VSE
To close the VSE, press the Close button in the ribbon. If there are changes not yet programmed, a
warning appears and you can either cancel out those changes or remain in the VSE.