Owner's Manual (Complete)

Chapter 5 – Home Modes
The Home Control Assistant
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Pressing the ‘A’ button when leaving has the button LED show yellow – meaning no one is home.
When returning home press the button again and you are home.
A similar keypad could be used in the keypad to have a button for go-to-bed and get-up.
What if you want to do something more complex? You can always create a program with
whatever triggers you want and in that program perform any tests you want and use the
Set Home
Mode
program element to change the mode.
When creating a program you can add a trigger that causes a program to start when a specified
mode is entered or left.
Actions while in a mode
In the device properties tab shown above, there was a second column of configuration parameters:
Response while in mode.
The purpose of this will become clearer when you review subsequent chapters of this User Guide -
when you read the chapters on Schedules and Programs.
To look into these settings, let’s take another example. Suppose that every day you would like
some lights to come on automatically at dusk. That’s easy - you create a simple schedule that
controls those lights at that time. The problem is you don’t want it to happen when you are not
home.
There are many ways to solve this problem. One method would be to have two different schedules
– one for when you are home and one for when you are away. Another method would be to have a
program control the lights and in that program make a test if you are home or not. Then schedule
the program to run every day at dusk.
With the Home Mode concept it is much simpler. All you need to is to schedule the lights to come
on everyday at dusk. That’s all!