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November 30, 2013 Chapter 1 What is the Home Control Assistant?............................................................................................................1 About this guide.........................................................................................................................................................1 Quick tour of HCA ....................................................................................................................................................2 Opening and Closing HCA ........................................................................................................................................2 Using the ribbon ........................................................................................................................................................3 The HINT System......................................................................................................................................................4 Using the properties dialog boxes..............................................................................................................................4 Home Properties dialog box ......................................................................................................................................5 HCA Options dialog box ...........................................................................................................................................6 The Design Pane and the Display Pane .....................................................................................................................7 The Design Pane........................................................................................................................................................7 Design Pane ...........................................................................................................................................................8 Two part names......................................................................................................................................................9 Working within the design pane ............................................................................................................................9 Design pane information......................................................................................................................................10 Working with the design and display panes together...........................................................................................10 What doesn’t appear in design pane ....................................................................................................................10 The conventions used in this guide ..........................................................................................................................10 Procedures and operations common to HCA...........................................................................................................11 Common Windows procedures used in HCA ..........................................................................................................12 Chapter 2 HCA Options...............................................................................................................................................13 About Options..........................................................................................................................................................14 Startup......................................................................................................................................................................15 Client-Server............................................................................................................................................................17 Hardware .................................................................................................................................................................17 Design Pane .............................................................................................................................................................18 Display Pane............................................................................................................................................................19 Color and Theme .....................................................................................................................................................19 Visual Programmer..................................................................................................................................................21 Web .........................................................................................................................................................................22 Clock........................................................................................................................................................................22 Advanced.................................................................................................................................................................25 Legacy .....................................................................................................................................................................25 Extra Features ..........................................................................................................................................................26 Chapter 3 Your Home..................................................................................................................................................27 Planning your home design......................................................................................................................................27 The Quick Start Wizard ...........................................................................................................................................28 The New Home Wizard ...........................................................................................................................................29 Modifying your home file........................................................................................................................................30 Security settings.......................................................................................................................................................31 Observations about the security system ...............................................................................................................32 Light and Dark.........................................................................................................................................................33 Home Info................................................................................................................................................................34 Chapter 4 Devices........................................................................................................................................................35 About devices ..........................................................................................................................................................35 Planning your devices..............................................................................................................................................35 Creating a new device..............................................................................................................................................36 Modifying an existing device...................................................................................................................................39 Triggers Tab ........................................................................................................................................................40 Restart Tab...........................................................................................................................................................41