Toggle/Scroll Groups

A toggle button is a button that does one action the first time you push it and a different button the next time you push it. For example, you could create a toggle button to toggle the lights on and off. A scroll button is one that has more than 2 actions. For example, you could create a scroll button to scroll among 3 or more different settings for the lights such as Off, Low, High.

Examples

  • GUI button to toggle the fireplace on and off

  • Remote control button to scroll aspect ratios

  • Keypad button to scroll among audio sources

 

GUI button to toggle the fireplace on and off

Open the Events menu and select the GUI Button type of event.

Click the "Add" button.

You will get a menu similar to the one at the right.

Click on "New Group".

 

 

Add the name (e.g. "Toggle LR Fireplace").

Click the checkbox labeled "Scroll Group".

You are now creating a scroll group instead of a regular Group of Actions.

 

 

Expand the tree on the right part of the menu.

Select the actions of the toggle button, and click "Add".

At the right, we have added both the Fireplace On and Off actions.

Click OK.

 

You will get the menu at the right with the Toggle button added.

Add an image such as the one of the fireplace.

Click OK.

 

You will end up with something like the picture at the right.

Click the GUI Button to turn the fireplace on (the button will not remain indented).

Click it again to turn the fireplace back off.

 

Remote control button to scroll aspect ratios

Open the Events menu and select "All Groups".

Click the "Add" button.

You will get a menu similar to the one at the right.

Click on "New Group".

 

 

Add the name (e.g. "Scroll Aspect Ratio").

Click the checkbox labeled "Scroll Group".

You are now creating a scroll group instead of a regular Group of Actions.

Expand the tree of actions as shown at the right (note that these commands are under the TV component in a particular room).

Select and add the 3 aspect ratios to the scroll group.

Click OK to close the New Group menu.

Click OK to close the Events menu.

 

 

Back in the Design Module, go to the AV Remote Control layer and click on the icon of the remote control in the Living Room.

Click on "TV/Video" to open the Action Tree for that button of the remote control.

Under "Groups of Actions", select the scroll group you just created, and select "Step Forward", as shown below.

Click OK.

Now, that button of your remote will scroll through the 3 aspect ratios of the TV in the Living Room.

 

 

Keypad button to scroll among audio sources

Open the Events menu and select the GUI Button type of event.

Click the "Add" button.

You will get a menu similar to the one at the right.

Click on "New Group".

 

 

 

Add the name (e.g. "Scroll Audio Sources").

Click the checkbox labeled "Scroll Group".

You are now creating a scroll group instead of a regular Group of Actions.

Expand the tree of actions as shown at the right.

Select and add the 2 audio sources that can play in the Master Bedroom to the scroll group.

Click OK to close the New Group menu.

Click OK to close the Events menu.

 

 

 

Back in the Design Module, go to the Keypad layer and click on the icon of the keypad in the Master bedroom.

Click on one of the buttons of the keypad to open the Action Tree for that button.

Under "Groups of Actions", select the scroll group you just created, and select "Step Forward", as shown at the right.

Click OK.

Now, that button of your keypad in the Master bedroom will scroll through the 2 audio sources to play them in that room.