Owner's Manual (Complete)

Chapter 6—Rooms

The Home Control Assistant

Switch settings

Here is a timeline of what happens:

 The room is off.

 The motion sensor sees you and starts the timer. This is because the motion sensor has the

setting enabled to trigger an auto-off specification and that specification says when the room is

off and an ON command is received, the timer is started.

 Since the room goes ON, the light in the room is sent a command to go on. This is because the

motion sensor is marked as participating in determining if the room is on or not. When any

device that participates is ON then the room is ON. The light is marked as responding to the

room going on or off so it goes on.

 Each time you move, the motion sensor restarts the timer. This is because the motion sensor

options say that if the room is ON and a command is received and the auto off timer is running

then the auto off timer is restarted.

 If you change the light level at the switch, the timer is canceled. This is because the switch is

marked such that if the room is on and the timer is running and a command is received then

the timer is canceled.

 Since the room remains on – the light is on and that participates in the room state - and the

timer not running, the motion sensor now has no effect. The room is still ON since the light is

on. And when a command is received from the motion sensor it is ignored.

Wow! That is a lot of function from just a few checkboxes.