Owner's Manual (Complete)

Chapter 8 – Visual Scheduler
4 The Home Control Assistant
well after dark. In this instance, you may want to create a sun-relative time, say at 15 minutes
before sunset.
 Do you want to turn something on, off, change its illumination level –dim or brighten, or
activate a scene?
Once you know the type of schedule entry you want, it is easy to create the entry. As an example,
let’s create an On entry for 6 p.m that happens on Saturday and Sunday only.
1. Locate the time bar for the device you want.
2. Make the settings you want in the ribbon. For this example, make sure that Saturday and
Sunday are checked and the other days are not. Also make sure that the
Clock Time option is
selected.
3. In the ribbon click the On marker. The cursor of the mouse changes to an
On marker. Move
the cursor to where you want to drop the marker and click again to add that time marker to the
bar. Since the new marker is set for a clock time, the marker will “click” onto the left side of
the bar. Had the new marker options been set for a sun relative time, the marker with “click”
onto the right side of the time bar. If you drag an IR or thermostat marker they will only
“click” onto a time bar for the appropriate device.
As you drag the marker, a small popup window shows the time you are pointing at. For
example, in this case an
Off marker is being dragged and is currently at 1 hour and 42 minutes
after sunset.
Hint: Time markers on the left side of the bar always represent the same time and appear at the
same place regardless of what day you use the Visual Scheduler. Time markers on the right
represent times relative to today’s sunrise and sunset. And these positions vary throughout
the year.
Example: If you look at a time bas on a day in May, it might appear that sunset is about 7 p.m. If
you were to create an On specific time entry for 7 p.m. (shown by a marker on the left side
of the bar), that device would come on about sunset for that day. In December, the device
would still come on at 7 p.m., but it would not be at sunset.
You could create another entry to control that same device, but this time create it using a
sun relative marker. Then it would be displayed at about 7 p.m. in May. If you were to start
the Visual Scheduler in December, it would display at a different point on the time bar; now
it would be somewhere near 4:30 p.m. (the time sunset on that date in December).
Regardless of the position on the bar the schedule entry happens at Sunset.