Owner's Manual (Complete)

Chapter 7 - Schedules
16 The Home Control Assistant
The resume part of the dialog tells when the suspended functions are resumed. There are two
major choices: To suspend until some action you take resumes it or to have HCA automatically
resume it at a given time. If you are using automatic resumption, several useful time limits are
given as options. If you open the suspend dialog when something is already suspended, the time to
resumption shows in the bottom of the dialog.
Hint: There are visual programmer elements for Suspend and Resume that make it simple for you
to create programs that perform suspend and resume options as part of their actions. This
way you can control suspend and resume without having to interact with the HCA UI. Just
give the program a trigger and send that trigger from a keypad in your home.
Downloading a schedule into an automation interface
Depending upon the automation interface connected to your computer it may be possible to
download a schedule into it. If this is done, then the interface will send out the powerline
commands to control your devices at the appropriate times.
For complete information see the appendix on downloading.
The Occupancy Wizard
The Occupancy wizard is designed to produce a schedule that controls lights in your home to make
it appear that someone is home even if they are not. It does this by asking a series of questions
about the rooms in your home, where you spend time, when you get up, and when you go to bed.
While the schedule it produces is far from perfect, it does provide a good enough schedule that is
more realistic that just turning on a few lights at the same time every day.
To start the wizard select Occupancy Wizard from the New menu. There is a lot of information in
the wizard dialogs that should guide you though the process.
Once you have produced this schedule you can use the Visual Programmer to create a program that
make that schedule the current schedule when you leave home – just press a button on the way out
and the schedule becomes current. Another button press on the way in, and your normal schedule
is back in control.
Hint: The Quick Start Wizard builds an occupancy schedule and also creates a program to swap
schedules.