Control lights when on vacation.

[ingeborgdot]

Is there a way I can control when lights go on and off in the house when we are on vacation automatically to simulate that we are home?

[Sub-Routine]

There certainly is.

 

ISY-99i/ISY-26_INSTEON:Create_a_Program

 

You will want to create several scenes and then use programs to turn the scenes on and off at specific or randomized times.

 

You can put these programs in a Vacation folder which has Schedule constraints from noon on the day you leave until the day you return.

 

Rand

[johnmsch]

Here's what I do.

 

I have a switch on my garage door opener. When I go out of town, I turn the garage door opener off and leave through the front door. I have an "Away" folder that only runs when that switch is off.