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Controlling Devices with Events
Events are one or more actions that are carried out in response to specific trigger, such as
an absolute time, Dawn or Dusk, push of a button, change in status of a device (something
turned on or off), voice command or receipt of an email. Events are sometimes referred to
as “macros” by other programs.
Each event is triggered in some manner (see Triggers below). Each event can carry out one
or more actions (see Event Actions below). Event triggers and actions are set in the Events
screen.
Elements of an Event
Triggers
A trigger is used to tell the event to perform some action. Triggers are selected from the
Event
Trigger
screen.
Conditions
Conditions give more flexibility in determining when an event should trigger. You can set as
many conditions as you want on a trigger. The event will trigger only when all of the
conditions are true. One or more conditions can be added to each event. Multiple conditions
can be set up so that they are all required to be true (conditions separated by AND) or only
one condition is required to be true (conditions separated by OR). Conditions can be added
to events when the
Apply conditions
field is enabled in the
Trigger
screen for that event.
Event Actions
There are several types of actions that can be carried out in an event and events can
contain one or more actions. Actions are added to events from the
Event Actions
screen.
Event Groups
Each event may be assigned to a specific group. The group is simply a name and has no
other significance. This allows you to put all related events into the same group. For
example, you may have a bunch of events that control all of the lights on the first floor.
You could put them all in your downstairs lights group. There is no limit to the number of
groups you can create.
Events are assigned to groups in the
Event Properties
screen.
You can view the events in a specific group by selecting the group name from the drop-
down
Groups
box at the top of the
Events
screen. Selecting All Groups from the drop down
list will display all of your events.
