new C4 Customer - Questions 3 connections and scenes

[howardco99]

Hello all - I have composer HE loaded up and have a some questions.

1) when programming keypads, how do you add a new load?  Say I want to add a 4th button to a keypad  and then have it control light A, which is not currently attached to the keypad, but the connections feature seems to be absent from HE. Is this true and if so is there a workaround?

2) I'm a little confused with the various parameters around advanced lighting scenes.  Would someone explain the relationship between toggles and active/inactive?  I assume that toggle scenes are used to move between two different states of a scene, say all lights on and all lights off, which could get complicated if lights in the scene are controlled in other ways than the control used to toggle between on/off.  But how does active/inactive play here? 

3) within a scene, what does tracking do?  In the Advanced Lighting agent, there is a button for tracking all loads or any load - what's the difference?

Thanks in advance.

 

 

 

 

[msgreenf]

1) connections are only in pro

[South Africa C4 user]

3. If you track all loads then the scene will only be active when all the loads are on / at the relevant level. If you are tracking any load then the scene will be active whenever any one of the loads is on / at the given level.  This is important for LED behaviour and because toggling an active scene makes it inactive and toggling an inactive scene makes it fully active.  Thus this setting will result in very different behaviour when toggling the scene when some lights are on and others are off.  In the first case, it will result in all lights being on afterwards and in the second case it will result in all lights being off afterwards.

[howardco99]

Thank you very much.  That's exactly the kind of info that I was looking for - pretty hard to figure this out from the user guide!