Owner's Manual (Complete)

Chapter 20—Control User Interface
2 The Home Control Assistant
A few things you probably already noticed. There is no menu bar at the top or status bar at the
bottom of the window. The standard Windows features for minimize, maximize, and exit are all
there on the left right, they are just very large and look a bit differently.
The top pane of the Window - called the “status bar” - shows, from left to right:
 The HCA icon showing the home mode. When the gear within icon is mostly yellow then the
mode is “Home & Awake”. When it is mostly green then the mode is “Home & Asleep”, and
when it is mostly gray then the mode is “Away”.
You can click on this icon to get a popup where you can shutdown HCA, return to the
development interface and perform a few other actions. These are covered later.
 A Back arrow: Using this will bring you back to the home page from any room page. When
the arrow is gray it is inactive.
 Up and Down arrows. Due to the difficulty of using scroll bars on touch screens, they are not
used to move the display up or down. The up and down arrows lets you scroll up and down if
there are more icons than can fit in the window. The arrows are gray when inactive.
 The name of the design when on the home page or the name of the room when in a room page.
 The current time or date. Tap on it and it toggles between date and time.
 A minimize button. This minimizes to the Windows task bar.
 A maximize button. This really maximizes the display to cover the entire surface of the
monitor including the task bar.
 The background color of the status bar is the alert state of HCA – like the red-yellow-green
“traffic” light that is shown in the regular HCA UI in the status bar at the bottom of the
window.
You can move the control interface window by a left-click drag action on the status bar
background.
Configuring the Control Interface pages
The pages the Control Interface displays can be created in one of two ways:
 HCA creates a default page structure from the rooms in your design
 You can completely control the pages by creating displays and placing on those displays the
icons for devices, programs, groups, and displays you want to appear.
The section covers both approaches.
HCA created pages
The Control Interface has the same concept of “rooms” as the rooms used to organize your design.
When HCA constructs the Control Interface home page, an icon is placed on the page for each
room in your design.
Also, you can create displays as described in the Displays chapter. These displays can also show as
icons on the Control Interface Home page.
You can configure the Control Interface so that only the rooms and displays you select are shown
as icons on the Home page. Associated with the properties of each room and display is an option
that controls this.