I currently have an élan G/HAI system and may be moving. I've always been frustrated by both products as they are PC based and have very cumbersome environments. élan is also way over priced.
Outside of being able to control everything I also observe the Jewish Sabbath and Holidays so I need lots of control. Is there a way to create an interface that would let the user pick when the lights would go off during "Shabbos" or a "YomTov" in either a pul down menu of some sort. Attached is my current screen and it was a bear to program in élan G as you can't re-use code from button to button (you have to cut and paste it). Then I had to turn buttons on and off when another button was pressed. I really wanted to be able to have different times for different days (sometimes we have a holiday that is two days long, sometimes it can be three) - but the work is just too overwhelming.
Is there "case" type logic so you can write one script that covers the routine. Sort of like:
Case of:
(FirstFloorOff=10)
RunFirstFloor Off @ 10 PM
(FirstFloorOff=11)
RunFirstFloor Off @ 10 PM
end case
I really want to create a screen where you indicate the number of days the house has to be in this special mode where we can't touch lights, and also be able to choose different times for different days.
Finally, could one reach to outside sources to determine the actual holidays that are based on a lunar calendar so the house would go into the right mode based on when the holiday occurs (not critical but would be very cool). My son rights real code and laughs at the élan and HAI environments. I saw something about Python scripts.