Owner's Manual (Complete)

Chapter 5—Home Modes
4 The Home Control Assistant
For Insteon you can use the Visual Scene Editor or the Link button on the linking tab to link the
device to HCA so HCA knows when it is locally controlled.
Auto off is more fully covered in the chapter on
Rooms.
Mode Change Triggers
While the actions upon entering each mode, as described above, are a powerful too, how does
HCA know when you come home, leave home, get up and go to bed?
That’s up to you. A common method is to have a keypad that you designate for this. A keypad by
the door where you press one button when you leave home and another when you come home. A
keypad in the bedroom that you press a “Go to bed” button at night and an “I’m up” button when
you get up.
But it doesn’t have to be that way. There are many different methods. You could use a motion
sensor that when triggered switches the home into “Home & Awake” mode.
In fact, all the features of HCA triggers can be used for this. Triggers, more fully covered in the
User Guide Chapter on Programs, is a method for you to describe the contents of a message
reception from the powerline, wireless, IR, or other methods. Each time HCA receives a message
it matches it up with all the triggers in the system and when it finds a match it responds. This
could be to start a program, or to change home modes.
You may want to skip ahead a bit in the User Guide and review the Programs chapter for a lot of
information on triggers.
Press the
Home Modes button in the ribbon Design category.
This is also the place where you can define or change the home modes. Just edit the mode names
and press the Apply button.
For each mode you can provide one or more triggers that tell HCA the home is now in that mode.
To create a new trigger, just double-click on the “Add new trigger”. In this example, a UPB
keypad in the entry has been used to switch from home mode to away mode.