Owner's Manual (Complete)

Chapter 7 - Schedules
14 The Home Control Assistant
 If HCA is starting normally, it chooses the schedule with …when HCA is started normally
checked.
 If HCA is re-starting after a power failure, it makes the schedule that was current when the
power failed current again, unless you have a special power failure restart schedule.
 If HCA can not find the correct option for the circumstances, then it doesn’t make any
schedule current.
Hint: The name of the current schedule is always shown in the status bar at the bottom of the
HCA window.
You can choose a schedule to become current at any time by using the Set Current Schedule choice
from the Home menu.
Suspending device, programs, and groups from HCA control
Another aspect of HCA to discuss under schedules is your ability to suspend items from control by
HCA.
Devices, programs, and groups can be marked as suspended in various ways. If you do this,
depending upon the type of suspend, the normal actions of HCA may not apply to a device,
program, or group.
If something is suspended from schedule control, HCA acts as if there are no schedule entries for it
in the current schedule. The schedule entries still exist, they just have no effect.
Why would you want to suspend something?
Generally, the reason is to account for some unusual happening. Suppose for example that you
schedule your living room lights to go off at 11 p.m. But tonight you are entertaining some friends
and will be using the living room after 11 p.m. You could just delete the schedule entries that
control the living room lights, but then you would have to put them back tomorrow. You could
deactivate HCA but that would shutdown automatic control of the rest of your home—and you
don’t want to do that! In this case, suspending the living room lights from schedule control
prevents them from automatically going off at 11 p.m., but leaves the rest of your home
functioning as usual. If you later remove the schedule suspend from the living room lights then
tomorrow they will function as normal.
To suspend a device, program, or group:
1. Select either
 the icon on the display or
 the name in the design pane of HCA.
2. Click the right mouse button.