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HCA Admin
Sep 01, 2009, 01:22 PM
The HCA scheduling features give you lots of abilities to schedule a device to be controlled, for example, every Tuesday or on the 1st of the month. One thing it can't do directly is to schedule a device to be controlled during a set time of year, for example, from December 20th to January 2nd.

Step 1
Create a program that will perform the action you want, for example, controlling a device.

Step 2
Create a schedule entry that controls the program every day at the time you want. For example suppose you want "Great Room - Lights" to come on at 6:30pm.
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Step 3
In the program test the range of dates that you want the action to happen and if within the range then execute the actions otherwise just exit

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And that it. Each day the program runs and for most of the year it just exits. But for 15 days of the year it controls your lights.