Schedules
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one of the most powerful features of Houseport
®
is the ability to create schedules.
Houseport
®
can help you save energy, make life more convenient, or increase the security of your
home by automatically activating scenes or zones at certain times of the day or at sunrise or sunset.
These schedules can be activated or deactivated at any time, and can occur on one or more days of
the week.
Schedules
Creating/Modifying Schedules
Use the following procedure to
create or modify schedules for
scenes and zones in Houseport
®
.
Houseport
®
can either be in
Design
or
Control
operation.
Houseport
®
must be set for
Control
operation mode to run
schedules.
It is easy to setup one of your
scenes to be activated on a
schedule. Select the
desired scene in the list (each scene
has a triangle next to its name),
then click on the action menu (the
one with the gear icon) and choose
Schedule This Scene
. The Schedules
window will open and a new
schedule will be created for the
selected scene.
edit the following items in the newly
created schedule:
1. The
Name
can be set to anything
that is appropriate.
2. The
Action
is what will happen
when the schedule is run. There are
three potential actions:
Activate
– active the scene
associated with the schedule
Turn on
– turn on all of the modules
in the scene associated with the
schedule
Turn off
– turn off all of the modules
in the scene associated with the
schedule
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