Re: Home Control Assistant

[Martin <>]

Kevin,

I'm using one schedule. What I want to do is have some of the lights
turn on from a remote and then return them to their settings _per the
schedule_ with the other remote button.

For example, let's say the following actions take place:

- Lights in question dim to 70% at 10:30 PM
- Hit remote ON button at 10:57 PM to turn lights on
- Next schedule entry is dim to 40% at 11:00
- Hit remote OFF button at 11:02 to return to the schedule

The problem is, if I programatically save off the dim values at the
time the ON button press is received, at 11:02 when the OFF is
received and the setting restored, the lights will be returned to 70%,
instead of dimmed to 40% per the schedule.

So the question is, how do I read the scheduled (as opposed to actual)
off/on/dim value for a particular unit?

Martin


On Mon, 10 Apr 2006 19:45:43 GMT, Kevin <Spiritbranson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

>Martin <> wrote in news:a5kj32lrk5m7hjpbhshv7kuo7j618uohah@xxxxxxx:
>
>> I'm using Home Control Assistant 6 and would like to create a script
>> to turn certain lights on in response to a keychain remote ON when
>> coming home and then return the lights to their settings according to
>> the current schedule via a keychain remote OFF once in the house.
>> Although the program could get the settings (on/off/dim level), save
>> them and then restore the values in response to the OFF, the schedule
>> settings could have changed between the keychain remote ON and OFF...
>>
>> Any ideas about how to read the current settings of devices in the
>> current schedule?
>>
>
>Martin,
>    	I also use Home control assistant 6. I have several questions. How
>many different schedules do you use and what is used to change these
>schedules. In response to your question, depending how the schedules are
>changed. You can use the flag values to report the different schedules and
>conditions. Then write a program that checks the flag values and responds
>accordingly.