Owner's Manual (Complete)

Chapter 21—Design Tools
6 The Home Control Assistant
X10 Reception
The X10 reception tool provides an alternative view of information that appears in the log. To
open this dialog press the X10 Reception button in the
Protocols ribbon category.
The large grid that appears in this tab shows, for each housecode and unitcode, if any X10
commands have been received by HCA and when. This could have been an ON, OFF, DIM or
Status command.
The color coding tells you at a glance if the code has been received or not. If no command has
been received for a housecode-unitcode, then the corresponding cell is gray. However, if a
command for a housecode-unitcode has been received, the corresponding cell is green if that
device is in your home design or red if it is not in your design.
To see the time when the last command was received, move the mouse over any of the 256 cells in
the grid and a popup window shows the date and time of that reception. If you right click on a cell,
a popup menu allows you to send an On, Off, or Status Request command to the house and unit
code for that cell.
Why is this important?
This can be a useful tool to make sure that some controller in your home is not sending signals that
you have not planned for. If X10 commands are being received by HCA and they don’t
correspond to a device, program, or group in your design, they have no effect. This may not be
what you intended.
To reset the grid and have all cells show as Unknown (gray), press the
Reset Grid button.
NOTE: This grid only shows receptions and not transmissions from HCA.