Event Manager

When disconnected, displays the PC’s time.

When connected, displays the HAL’s time.

Displays the list of all previously created event names, in the order created.

Configure each event’s details by clicking the yellow, underlined event name.

The far left event icon displays the event type:

• - Toggle event
• - Command event
• - Selector event (always a 2-position selector)

To the right of the event name is an edit icon. When clicked, an edit box opens where you can rename the event:

The event’s link icon looks like this: Drag and drop this icon to other links of the same type to trigger events.

Displays the date and time of the next event value/state change: Activate or Deactivate.

The Active Trigger button allows manually activating an event. This is useful for testing events, rather than waiting for the next scheduled state change to occur.

Linking to the Active Trigger’s chain symbol icon allows activating this event manually without relying on the time of day. This permits events to trigger using both the time and a physical switch, DR remote checkbox (for a toggle event) or an external 3rd-party control or web control button on a web page.

Press the Inactive Trigger button to deactivate an event.

Linking to the Inactive Trigger's chain symbol icon allows another action to take place upon completion of the event. This action could be an indicator on a web page or digital remote, or events can be cascaded one to another by linking the Inactive Trigger from one event to the Active trigger of another event.

When this checkbox is checked, the event is permitted to trigger (either active or inactive) once the time matches the settings of the event. When unchecked, the event is disabled and cannot trigger; neither an active or inactive trigger can occur when disabled.

Link to the chain icon next to the event enable check box to enable or disable events manually using other controls such as 3rd-party controls, web pages, DR remotes or physical switches.

If you set up events in previous Halogen configuration files and want to reuse them in new designs, events can be copied via the Windows clipboard from an old configuration file to a new file.

To do so: Open the original Halogen file, open the event manager, highlight the event you want to copy to a new file, and click this button. Open the new file, open the event manager and click the Paste event from clipboard button.