Owner's Manual (Complete)

Chapter 15—Power Track
2 The Home Control Assistant
Once this is done, HCA creates a power log file for the device in the Power Track folder in your
HCA documents area. The filename is created from the name of the device – replacing any invalid
filename characters with ‘_’s and adding month suffix. Each month a new file is created. These
files are small so there shouldn’t be a disk space issue.
Once these files exist, then each time HCA controls the device – from a schedule, a program, or
when you interact with the user interface - an entry is made in the file.
But this is only half the situation: If you locally control the device you want HCA to receive notice
so that the power track file can be kept up to date.
Insteon Devices
For Insteon devices you need to link the device to HCA. Just like when you link two devices
together so that when one device is controlled it sends to the other device – for example, tap a
switch paddle and a module is controlled also – you must link HCA to the device as well.
This is accomplished on the linking tab of the device’s properties dialog.
In the case of a switch, there is only a single button:
In the case of a KeypadLinc, you should link the “On” button to HCA.