Specifications

Intelligent Building Series C-Touch Programming Reference

Each Schedule has several main properties:

• A name/description

• An enabling Group Address

• A time

• A day

• An event

Description

The description for the Schedule is set on the Properties tab. The

description should be something that will be meaningful when seen in a

list.

Enable

A schedule can be turned on or off. If the schedule is turned on, the

schedule proceeds as programmed. If it is off, the schedule is ignored.

This effect is achieved by means of an enabling Group Address. This

Group Address and the level determine whether a schedule is to run. If the

Schedule does not need to be turned on or off, this is left as “unused”.

Typically, a particular Group Address on the Enable Application (number

CB hex) will enable the Schedule when it is at 100%.

There are two basic techniques to generate mutually exclusive schedules

(ie. only one will run at a time.) These are both illustrated in the

Schedules.XML example provided with C-Touch.

The first of these is to assign all schedules to the same group address and

use a different level for each one. Since a Group Address can only have

one level at a time, only one schedule can be in effect at one time. (This

method is illustrated in the ViaLevel page of the project.)

Alternatively, separate group addresses can be used to enable different

schedules. Scenes can be used to set the GA levels to enable a different

schedule. The designer is fully responsible for ensuring that the activity is

mutually exclusive and so there is a potential for errors (The ViaScenes

page illustrates this.)

Time

The time that the Schedule is to occur is set on the Time tab. It is set in

2400 hour time (eg. 5 p.m. = 1700).