Owner's Manual (Complete)
Chapter 4—Devices
The Home Control Assistant 7
But what about other keypads in your home? Perhaps you have a wireless keypad that you want to
be able to take throughout the house and be able to control devices in various rooms. For that to
work you would need to set the wireless receiver to some housecode and have all the devices you
want to control set to the same housecode. This may be ok, but maybe not.
This is where triggers come in handy. Suppose that wireless keypad is set to housecode K and you
want to use K3 to turn on and off the den lamp. If you add a trigger of K3 to the den lamp device
then here is what happens.
1. You press the K3 On button on the wireless keypad. It is received by the wireless transceiver,
put on the powerline and then received by HCA.
2. HCA finds that K3 is a trigger for the Den lamp so it sends an On command to B1.
3. The light comes on.
If you had sent a K3 Off command, HCA would have sent out B1 Off.
You can create any trigger you want – from any protocol – and if received by HCA it will
determine the command associated with the reception – on, off, dim, bright, etc – and retransmit
that to the device using the device’s address and the command – translated across protocols if
necessary.
To remove a trigger for a device, right-click on the trigger and select
Delete from the popup menu.
To change a trigger for a device, right-click – or double-click – on the trigger and select
Edit from
the popup menu.
Restart Tab
On this tab you determine what happens to this device when HCA is started. You should carefully
consider the selection for this step, in light of the device that you are creating.
If you have an appliance that is best not left unattended (a coffeepot, toaster, or room
heater), the best choice is
Make sure the device is OFF.
The device can be set to follow the schedule you have for the device,
Only in very special circumstances should you ever choose Make sure the device is ON,
and then only for devices like lights.
For some devices, like the X10 chime, you may want to have HCA send no commands.