Owner's Manual (Complete)

Chapter 8 – Visual Scheduler
The Home Control Assistant 3
sunset are on the right.
Each schedule entry has a date component – the days of the week, and a time – either a set
time or a time plus or minus sunset or sunset, and the number of minutes to vary each day.
When a new schedule entry is created, the current settings in the ribbon are used for that new
schedule entry.
 At the bottom of the display pane is a scroll bar. If you have so many devices, programs, and
groups in your design that the display pane cannot show all the time bars at one time, you can
use the scroll bar to display the rest of the time bars. It operates as you would expect, and can
scroll the Visual Scheduler left and right to see the other time bars.
 In the ribbon are a number of tools for creating new schedule entries as well as changing how
the Visual Scheduler appears.
Each schedule entry – represented by time marker on a bar - has a date component – the days
of the week, the time – either a set time or a time plus or minus sunset or sunset, and the
number of minutes to vary each day. When a new schedule entry is created, the current
settings in the ribbon are used for that new schedule entry.
Also in this ribbon are the markers themselves – on, off, dim, scene, thermostat, or IR. To add
a new schedule entry, click on the marker picture and then move the mouse to where it should
be and click again to drop it. As you move the mouse the marker “clicks” onto the nearest bar.
Hint: Remember that 12:00 p.m. = noon, and 12:00 a.m. = midnight.
Using the Visual Scheduler
Now that you are familiar with the basic look of the Visual Scheduler, you probably want to know
what you can do with it. The next sections describe how to
 Add time bars
 Create new schedule entries
 Modify existing schedule entries
 Delete existing schedule entries
The following sections discuss these operations.
Add time bars
In order to schedule a device, program, group, or room, there must first be a time bar for it. Select
the name of device, program, group, or room in the design pane and drag it onto the Visual
Programmer and drop it. A new time bar is created.
The Visual Programmer normally only shows time bars for those devices, programs, groups, and
rooms that have schedule entries in the current schedule. This behavior can be modified. See the
section below on Configuring the Visual Scheduler.
Creating new schedule entries
To create a new schedule entry, you must first decide two things:
 Do you want to set a new schedule entry with a specific time or with a sun-relative time (based
upon sunrise or sunset)?
Suppose you want a lamp to come on every day of the year at 6 p.m. In this case, you want a
specific time—6 p.m. This might be what you want, but remember that in the summer the
light will come on when it is still light outside, and during the winter the light will come on