Gene Posted November 28, 2017 Share Posted November 28, 2017 I'm not so familiar with experience buttons so I figured I'd ask. Is it possible and does anyone have an example for creating a button (i.e. Christmas Tree) and when pressed, turns on all Xmas lights? I have the lighting/switches/outlets using C4. Let me know if anyone does this? Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C4CA Posted November 28, 2017 Share Posted November 28, 2017 Yes you could also do a custom button on home screen of user interface. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gene Posted November 28, 2017 Author Share Posted November 28, 2017 Never thought of the custom button on home screen esp since Touchscreens is what I want it to show on...want kids to touch one button and all lights to go on and then toggle off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C4CA Posted November 28, 2017 Share Posted November 28, 2017 Custom buttons can also go on touch screens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gene Posted November 28, 2017 Author Share Posted November 28, 2017 Yeah, I have custom buttons on one touchscreen but was wondering if people use the custom buttons to turn them 'off' and then one to turn them 'on' vs One icon that shows a Christmas Tree and when pressed, toggles the same...guess since you can't have the Christmas Tree under Lighting, not sure were else to put it...Can you add an experience button to the home screen of a touchscreen? (i.e. On the kitchen touchscreen, just have the main screen show a Christmas Tree besides the normal) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lippavisual Posted November 29, 2017 Share Posted November 29, 2017 You could always run a schedule. That's what I do at my house for the Xmas season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gene Posted November 29, 2017 Author Share Posted November 29, 2017 Is it possible to have a schedule for a Christmas Icon such that the icon appears at Thanksgiving and gets removed after Dec 31st? I figured such would require a reboot. What do you mean by scheduling? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
South Africa C4 user Posted November 29, 2017 Share Posted November 29, 2017 17 hours ago, Gene said: Yeah, I have custom buttons on one touchscreen but was wondering if people use the custom buttons to turn them 'off' and then one to turn them 'on' vs One icon that shows a Christmas Tree and when pressed, toggles the same...guess since you can't have the Christmas Tree under Lighting, not sure were else to put it...Can you add an experience button to the home screen of a touchscreen? (i.e. On the kitchen touchscreen, just have the main screen show a Christmas Tree besides the normal) You cannot add Experience Buttons to the home screen. You could add it to the Comfort menu though (or watch, security or listen but comfort feels more intuitive). I have not seen a Christmas Tree icon... perhaps @alanchow could add it to his advanced experience button suite or maybe the Blackwire emoji package already has it... that driver has 1,400 Emojis... so a Christmas tree is probably included... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lippavisual Posted November 29, 2017 Share Posted November 29, 2017 You can create a Xmas Tree Icon for an experience button. Experience buttons are not allowed on the Home or Lighting pages, as an FYI. Create 2 schedules in HE, one for "XMas lights ON" and one for "XMas Lights OFF" Create a lighting scene with all the devices controlling your XMas lights. Then in programming under the schedules: When schedule XMas Lights ON executes Activate XMas Lighting ON scene When schedule XMas Lights Off executes Deactivate XMas Lights ON scene Then your experience button can reflect whether that scene is ON or Off with the pretty icon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
South Africa C4 user Posted November 29, 2017 Share Posted November 29, 2017 You could even change the icon from a tree to something else for other times of year (Turkey, USA flag, sun etc.) and still have it do stuff... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gene Posted November 29, 2017 Author Share Posted November 29, 2017 Thanks! I"ll give it a try! I wish in the future we could add experience buttons to the home screen (like custom buttons but not words) and/or have the button appear during a time period etc... Thanks for the info on programming too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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