Note that many people are familiar with creating Macros to sequentially turn on AV components with an appropriate delay between turning on the component and selecting one of its inputs. That type of Macro is not needed with Destiny products as those types of macros are automatically created for you when you create an audio/video path from an AV source to an AV display and set of speakers on the AV Entertainment layer of the Design Module..
Note that a great deal of the functionality of home automation is built into the Room Scenes of the Ubiquity software and thus you usually do not have to create long lists of events or conditional logic. However, there are times when you will want to do something different. Toward that end, the Ubiquity software supports 4 types of Events. Open the Events Menu and then click on the button of the type of event you would like to create: Timers, Triggers, or GUI Buttons. Alternatively, click on "All Groups" to create a "Group of Actions" or to see the list of the Groups of Actions you have previously created and where they are used. Note that keypad button also execute events. However, in this software release, keypad buttons must be configured from inside the Design Module.
Click on one of these button for more information.
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Time-based Event in which the event occurs at a specific time (or for some specific duration). |
Events that are triggered by some sensor such as a door bell button, motion sensor, flood sensor, etc. |
GUI Button activated events in which events occur when an image of a button is pressed on the Graphical User Interface. |
Keypad events in which events occur when a button on a Keypad or on the RC-1 Remote Control is pushed |
To view where your Groups of Actions are used |
Open the Events MenuTo open the Events menu, click outside of all rooms to get the House Menu. Click the Events button.
Alternatively, us the "Launch" dropdown menu in Find My Destiny or the Design Module.
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After a short period of getting the message, "Loading data, please wait ...", you will get the menu at the right with the "Timer" button at the top left active, indicating that you are now working with Timer Events. To work with "GUI Button" events, click the button labeled "GUI Buttons". Events can consist of a single action or multiple actions. For the latter, you create a Group of Actions. You can create the Group of Action while creating the Timer Event or the GUI Button, but sometimes you want to know where the groups of actions are being used. For this information, click the "All Groups" button. Note that you can also create a Group of Actions in the All Groups section of this menu, if you want.
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