Owner's Manual (Complete)

Chapter 8 – Visual Scheduler
2 The Home Control Assistant
Starting the Visual Scheduler
Before you can start the Visual Scheduler, you must already have one or more schedules in your
home design.
To start the Visual Scheduler, choose the
Schedule category in the ribbon. The Visual Schedule
appears as:
All the tools necessary to work with the Visual Scheduler are in the ribbon.
The schedule you are viewing is named in the dropdown at the left end of the ribbon. In this
example, the “At Home” schedule is being seen.
You can’t work on multiple schedules at one time. To work on another schedule, use the
dropdown in the ribbon to change schedules.
To close the Visual Scheduler, chose another category in the ribbon.
Looking at the Visual Scheduler
When you first open the Visual Scheduler, you might want to take note of its main features.
 The Visual Scheduler uses a time bar to represent each device, group, program, and room in
your design. This bar is a vertical column with 12 a.m. (midnight) at the top and 11:59 p.m.
(almost midnight) at the bottom.
HCA uses the times for sunrise and sunset (for the current day) to mark the sunrise and sunset
times with small black blocks. If you look at the Visual Scheduler during the summer, the
location of the sunrise marks is different than what shows when you open the Visual Scheduler
in the winter.
 Above each bar is the name of the device, program, group, or room that the schedule bar
represents.
Attached to the bars are time markers representing schedule entries. For example, in the
preceding graphic there is an On marker in the bar for “Circulation Pump” at about 7 a.m. In
the “Dusk Lighting” bar there is a marker at about 30 minutes before sunset. Remember,
specific times are shown by markers on the left side of the bar, times relative to sunrise and