Owner's Manual (Complete)

Chapter 16—Troubleshooter
4 The Home Control Assistant
Alert Manager
The Inspector looks for problems in your design by analyzing those things that don’t change when
HCA operates. There are a second set of things that can go wrong as HCA operates your design.
For example:
 A device is polled for it’s status but it doesn’t reply
 An attempt is made to take a weather observation but it fails.
 One part of a UPB message being received is missing
 An X10 address, UPB address, or Insteon address is received that doesn’t match anything
in your design.
As you can see from this list, all of these items can’t be checked for by the inspector as they only
happen over time. What happens when these sorts of problems occur is what the Alert Manager is
for.
Each of these conditions is called an Alert. On this tab you tell HCA how you would like HCA to
respond when the condition occurs. In general you can configure things so that when an alert
happens an entry is added to the Inspector, the red-yellow-green alert level indicator in the status
bar is changed, and an HCA program started.
The Alert Manager tab appears as:
There are three main sections of this tab. They are:
 The upper display that shows all Alerts you have added to your design.
 The Alert box shows the setup parameters of the selected alert..
 Three buttons that allow you to add a new alert, update an existing alert, and delete an
alert.
Each Alert you add contains these setup parameters:
1. What is the alert condition? This is selected from the first dropdown in the alert box.
2. When the condition happens when is a troubleshooter entry made? There are 4 possibilities:
 Never
 Each Time
 Only once a day