Owner's Manual (Complete)

Chapter 13—Displays
The Home Control Assistant 1
Chapter 13
Displays
A display is a way to display your devices, programs, and groups in arrangements that make sense
to you. HCA uses the term Display rather than floor or room, because displays can show more
than just icons.
Displays have three main uses:
 To displays icons for your devices, programs, and groups
 To display text messages
 To display power track graphs
 To display HTML
In the first case, the display can have a background image and that image can be in the form of a
drawing interchange format (DXF) file, or picture (BMP, GIF or JPEG) file. The Home Control
Assistant works with several popular drawing programs that produce DXF files.
Everything that appears in the Display Pane has a display object behind it. At different times, you
may see the Display Pane contain a text message, an arrangement of icons, or a HTML file. And
for each of these there exists a display object - one for the text display, another for the icon
display, and third for the HTML display.
This chapter concentrates on displays, how to create them and what you can do with them. It also
provides instructions for how to use the Home Control Assistant with displays that have DXF
backgrounds and those that don’t. Sections in this chapter include:
 Types of displays
 Text displays
 HTML displays
 Icon Display
- Icons for displays
 Power Track Displays
 About DXF files
- Using DXF files in HCA
- DXF files and layers
 Picture files
 Creating a display
 Placing icons on a display
- With a picture or no background
- With a DXF background
 Working with icons on a display