Owner's Manual (Complete)

Chapter 14—Visual Scene Editor
The Home Control Assistant
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Using the VSE: Starting, stopping, and creating scenes
The VSE was designed to facilitate creating and editing scenes in two different manners. You can
focus on a scene or your can focus on a device within the scenes it participates in.
Working “by scene”
To start the VSE select from the ribbon press the Visual Scene Editor button in the Insteon panel
of the
Protocols category. This dialog appears:
The left-hand list shows all the scenes you have explicitly given names to. The right-hand window
displays, in a shorthand manner – what devices participate in the scene. Below are any notes you
have saved for this scene.
Hint: In even a small Insteon installation you can wind up with many scenes. Some of these are
important ones that you will spend time creating and modifying. Others are simple “press
this button and control that device” type of scenes. Give names to the scenes that you
expect to be working with over time but not to every scene.
To edit a scene all you need do is to select its name and press the edit button.
To create a new scene, press the Create button. This dialog appears: