Owner's Manual (Complete)

Chapter 17—Restart
The Home Control Assistant 3
The first two options in the Restart group enable or disable the restart feature in the case of a
normal or power failure restart.
The next option is for having a UPS as described above.
The last option in the group controls how often the state file is written. For computers that power
off their hard drives after some period of inactivity, having HCA write the file once a minute
defeats this. This option attempts to limit the writes to the state file to only when something has
changed.
One important point you should be aware of if this feature is used. When HCA restarts after a
power failure it shows the time and date of when the power failed and when it is restarted. If this
option is used it may report an incorrect time for the power failure.
The final option of this section directs HCA that when started, to poll all devices that support
status requests. This updates HCA’s internal state to the device’s state. It’s best to wait a bit after
startup before these polls happen so that they don’t compete with any programs that run upon
startup or HCA transmissions to restore state.
In addition to these options which turn on or off restart, you can also control restart on an
individual device, program, or group basis.
For example, in the case of a device, these options are on the Restart tab of the device properties.