Owner's Manual (Complete)

The Home Control Assistant
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Chapter 15
Power Track
Modern devices are mostly two-way - they can both send and receive. Most importantly then can
often be configured to transmit their status when locally controlled.
Using that 2-way feature HCA contains
Power Track which is a method for keeping track of what
time a device is turned on and when it is turned off. This information is recorded in a file for each
device.
HCA can analyze these files and produce both current power usage graphs – how much power are
your devices using at this moment – and how much power have my devices used over a selected
time period, for example, the last seven days, or the last 48 hours.
This chapter describes:
 How to enable Power Track on a device
 The current power graph
 Historical Power Graphs
 Displays and Graphs
 Support for the Insteon Power Meter device
Enabling Power Tracking
Before you can use the Power Track features you must enable power track for a device. This is
accomplished on the Power Track tab of a device’s properties dialog.
All you need do is to “check” the checkbox and supply how much current the device draws when
at full power. For lighting this is the bulb wattage. For appliances this is usually listed on a sticker
someplace on the device.