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Gateway Commissioning & Start-up Guide
Schedules
Effective lighting automation relies on schedules to ensure task-appropriate illuminance levels, while leveraging available
occupancy and ambient light sensor data to eliminate unnecessary energy demand.
Within each scheduled adjustment, specific settings can be programmed to customize brightness within each zone (when
installed with light sources that support dimming).
This section will define schedule behaviors and parameters that can be defined.
Schedule Behaviors
Standard Zone
Within a Standard (non-Time-Switch) Zone, schedules automatically update the level of all devices assigned to a zone to the
user-defined level, at the user-defined time.
The device levels will be updated at the schedule transition point regardless of their state (on or off). Standard Zone schedules
will not automatically turn on devices within the zone but will instead rely on manual activation. Standard Zone schedules will
automatically turn off adapters and switches within the zone if the dim level for a schedule is set to level 0.
Time-Switch Zone
Within a Time-Switch Zone, schedules automatically update the level and state of all devices assigned to the zone to the us-
er-defined level and state, at the user-defined time.
At the schedule transition point, level (if applicable) and state will be updated to all devices within a zone, regardless of their
current state. Time-Switch Zone schedules will automatically turn on or off devices assigned to that zone.
In a Time-Switch Zone, during a scheduled off period, if a manual on command is entered, the system will automatically turn the
Time-Switch Zone Off after two hours. This prevents a zone from being left on accidentally and is required for code compliance.
Time-Switch Zones also permit an expanded number of day-groupings (seven instead of two in Standard Zones) to allow for
more flexibility in scheduling and for code compliance in certain jurisdictions.
Within a Gateway, up to six zones can be created as Time-Switch Zones. The decision between a Standard and Time-Switch
Zone is made at Zone creation.