Owner's Manual (Complete)

Chapter 20—Control User Interface
The Home Control Assistant
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The back button from this page goes back to the Rooms page and back from there to the Home
page.
The last piece of this puzzle is how to designate what display to use as the Control Interface home
page. Press the Control UI Setup button in the ribbon Design category.
Think of the Control Interface as a programmable user interface. It is worth spending some time to
select which of your folders and displays become rooms in the Control Interface, which devices,
programs, and groups are shown on the pages, and what the popup control panel shows for each
device. Like designing your automation solution, it makes sense to spend time crafting the user
interface to work with it.
Controlling devices
Unlike the Development UI, where you single-click a device to select it, double-click to act upon
it, and right-click to open a context menu, the Control Interface is all single click – or “tap” in
touch screen terminology. This “tap” is further divided into short taps and long taps.
A
short tap – like a mouse click – acts upon what you tapped on. If it is a room icon then the
room is opened. The default action is that when you tap on a device it is turned on if it is off, and
off if it is on – it toggles the state. The default action for a
long tap opens up a control panel for
the device.
A Short tap is a quick touch then release. A Long Tab is a press-down and hold until the popup
appears then release. You can do these taps with a mouse. A short tap is just a left mouse click.
A Long tap is made by depressing the left mouse button and holding it until the popup appears then
releasing. A long tap can also be made by double-clicking on an icon with a mouse.