Owner's Manual (Complete)

Chapter 6—Rooms
The Home Control Assistant
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There are a lot of options on this dialog and they will all be covered in the chapter. For now only
the first checkbox is important. If that checkbox is “ticked” then the state of the device
participates in determine the room state as described above.
Working with rooms
Like a device, a room can be scheduled to go on or off at a certain time or, in a program it can be
controlled by the On and Off elements.
What happens when a room goes ON or OFF as the result of a program, schedule, or your
interaction with the user interface?
What happens is that any device in the room that is configured to go on or off with the room is sent
on or off commands.
In the device’s property dialog on the room tab are four checkboxes that control this. The picture
above shows these checkbox options.
As explained in the previous chapter on
Your Home, HCA has a concept of Light and Dark. In
that chapter is described all the different ways that can be determined – time, astronomical time, or
by one or more light sensors.
When a room goes on or off, you set in the device’s properties how the device responds. And this
can be different depending if the room is going on or off, and if it is light or dark.
It is important to know that the specification of how the devices responds when the room goes on
or off, only happen at that point in time when the room goes from off to on, or on to off.
Hint: This can be very useful to set different light levels for at night when you may not want the
lights to go on at a lower level than during the daytime.
Auto Off
A room, like a device can have an auto-off mechanism. This is configured on the Room properties
Green tab: