great now you can go crazy! If you have any outlet switches (Wemo, TP Link, etc) you can set it up with a Christmas tree. I have it so at Sunset if Christmas mode is true, turn on Wemo outlet so the Xmas tree goes on. When I press my "goodnight" button, it will turn off the Wemo. I also have it set to my alarm system, so if holiday mode is true and alarm is set to away (We are leaving) it will turn the tree off if its on. and when we arrive home and "Disarm" the alarm it will also turn the tree back on if its after sunset.
Then like I said you can go into exterior lighting, we have a few shrubs we light up and those exterior outlets are wired to a c4 switch inside so I can program on/off based on the holiday mode.
This explains a True/False variable: https://www.control4.com/documentation/Composer_HE_User_Guide/Using_Custom_Variables_Agent_Boolean1.htm
It goes into detail on how to find the variable agent and how to use the Boolean Variable (True/False). It even gives a front door scenario. If someone is at the front door or if someone is not at the front door. So you would use the same idea if its holiday or not holiday.
So first step, go to the agents in composer and select Variable and create a Boolean (True/False) variable called Holiday mode. Set it to true (because it is the holidays right now)
In your programming - I am not sure what doorbell you have but on the trigger of the action (button press, whatever it is called) you would do the following:
On the upper left pane scroll down to variables and pick the new on you created and go to the conditionals
IF holiday mode is true
Play Holiday Door Bell (or whatever the file is called, again not sure how you are playing the sound through what service)
IF holiday mode is false
Play Standard Door Bell (or whatever the file is called)
Notice the indents on the second line, that nesting is required.
Now you can have several ways to to create buttons to go back and forth between holiday mode and regular mode. Your dealer can add an experience button. Or you can create a custom button:
https://www.control4.com/documentation/Composer_HE_User_Guide/Program_Using_a_Custom_Buttons_Agent.htm
when you create the custom button call it Holiday Mode or whatever and the action of the button would be to toggle the True/False variable you created in the first step.
You can see if the toggle is working because if you go to Agents > Variables > Holiday Mode (in monitoring tab in Composer HE) you can see the current state of the variable. Press the custom button again and go back to Agents > variables > Holiday Mode and the state should know be the opposite.
Get the doorbell working first. Then you can do the same thing with exterior lights/outlets with Christmas lights, program a Wemo to turn your Xmas tree on/off (really easy to do if your alarm is hooked up into C4), etc.
Hope that is helpful.
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