Owner's Manual (Complete)

Chapter 3—Your Home

The Home Control Assistant

Light and Dark

One of the important things HCA does is to control lighting. It is often useful to know if your home

is light or dark to determine if lights should be turned on and at what level.

The question “is it light or dark” can be answered by sunrise and sunset time but there are other

options.

There is the same dialog for Dark and well as Light.

While this dialog has many options the general idea is that you determine light from three possible

sources.

 By Time

 By the setting of a flag – determined by programs you have created

 By s selection of motion sensors which contain a light sensor

At the top of the dialog is a dropdown where you pick what sources determine light or dark and

haw those sources interact. In the above example, it will be considered Light at the local sunrise or

when all of the selected motion sensors report that it is light.

In later chapters of this user guide you will see two places where you can make use of this

information: In the auto off settings of rooms and devices and in programs where you can test the

flag “_Light” or “_Dark”. HCA keeps those flags up to date during the day as it reevaluates the

light and dark settings specified here.

Hint: Because there are separate criterion for Light and Dark it is possible for both to be true or

both to be false.