Owner's Manual (Complete)

Chapter 21—Design Tools
The Home Control Assistant 7
X10 Test
The X10 test dialog is opened by pressing the X10 Test button in the Protocols category.
As it says in the dialog, the purpose of this dialog is to send X10 commands using your X10
interface in an effort to assess how X10 communications are working in your home.
This tool can be particularly useful if you are attempting to diagnose x10 signal strength
throughout your home with an X10 signal meter. The x10 test pattern will continue to operate until
you click the
Done button.
Communications Monitor
The Communications monitor is a small window that shows when commands are sent or received
from any of the interfaces connected to your computer’s communications ports used by HCA to
send and receive commands.
The Communications monitor is opened by checking the Comm Onitor checkbox in the ribbon
Home category. This Window appears as:
The parts of this window are:
 A rectangle that lights up when data is received from the interface
 A rectangle that lights up when data is sent to the interface
 A button that can reduce the window to just the send and receive lights or expand it to show
all the information