Owner's Manual (Complete)

Chapter 20—Control User Interface
The Home Control Assistant
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Long tap on a keypad icon and this popup appears:
This shows one of the next concepts in the Control Interface to explore. These types of popups are
called “glass keypads” and are described in the next section.
Glass Keypads
Glass keypads are a concept in the Control Interface that makes it possible to “push” a button on a
keypad or “tap” the paddle of a switch. What this all means is best described by an example.
You probably have a number of keypads in your home that do various things. In this example a
keypad in the bedroom has multiple functions. When you are actually in the bedroom you can
walk up and poke one of the buttons. What that button does is really up to your design. It could
control one or more devices directly using Insteon scenes or UPB links. Or it could trigger an
HCA program.
Using the Control Interface you can
cause whatever that keypad does when you poke the button on
the real keypad
to happen by pushing the button on the glass keypad. In this example, the Go To
Bed
button controls many devices in the home by links. When you tap on the Go to bed button in
the glass keypad it will have the same effects as if you walked up to the actual keypad and poked
the
Go To Bed button.
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Hint: Where did the text on the buttons come from? In the device properties dialog is a tab where
you can enter names for the transmit components. That text is used in the Control Interface
glass keypads.
But “glass keypads” aren’t just for keypads! Anything that has a transmit function that can be
invoked from a physical tap on it can have a glass keypad.
For example, switches have a single rocker but you may also want the Control Interface to show a
glass keypad for it. The idea is that with UPB and Insteon it is not uncommon to have links
programmed into a switch so that when you tap the paddle it not only controls the load but also
controls other linked devices.