Step-by-Step with the In-Wall Master Controller
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Setting Up Common Events to Activate Your
Scenes
Overview
A
scene
is a group of devices that have been set to
respond the way you want. For example, if you set
up the lighting in your living room a certain way for
watching a movie on your big screen TV, you’ve created
a
scene
. Another
scene
might be to turn on all the lights
on your stairway and upstairs hallway. Or your porch
light, the lights in your yard, and the light at the end of
your driveway.
An
event
is a timer-activated scene. With the timer
functionality of the In-Wall Master Controller, you
can create
events
that turn scenes ON and OFF
automatically. The most common timer-event that
activates a scene is:
A Recurring Event
— that regularly turns a scene ON or
OFF, either at specific times or “astronomically,” where
the ON/OFF times adjust automatically according to
sunrise and sunset (earlier sunset in winter, etc.).
This is a common safety or security setting and is a
primary reason the In-Wall Master Controller is brought
into an InTouch network. Note that the “ON” time
and the “OFF” time are individual events and must be
created separately.
Recurring events can also be created to turn a scene ON
at a specific time, on a repeating basis, and then turn
OFF after a specified duration for the event runs out.
Other events you can create include:
A One-Time Event
— that turns a scene ON or OFF
one time on a specific date, whether at a specific
time or according to sunrise/sunset.
An Action Event
— where the timer defines the result
of an
action
(e.g., a signal from a motion sensor or
the press of a button) to make the button do different
things according to what time it is. For example, a
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