Owner's Manual (Complete)

The Home Control Assistant
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Chapter 26
Web Server
The HCA Web Server is an application installed when HCA installs that allows HCA to generate
HTML pages from browser requests. By using a network and a browser, you can access your
design to control devices, start and stop programs, look at the HCA log and many other actions.
You have full control except you can’t modify your design – add new devices, change programs,
modify schedules, etc.
Once the HCA Web Server is started, http references to a configurable port number return an html
interface which will allow you to interact with your HCA design.
With the HCA Web Server started you can view the web interface by directing your web browser
to the following address: http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:yyyy where xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx is the IP address of
the computer running HCA and yyyy is the port number you’ve configured.
For example,
http://169.254.180.32:9955/
Hint: There are many methods to reference your computer by name rather than by IP address. This
can be especially helpful if your IP address changes over time. This is beyond the scope of
the user guide. The HCA Web Server technical note will have more information on this.
See the final section of this chapter.
The Web Server creates pages that are either optimized for a big screen – the high resolution of a
laptop or desktop computer – or the small screen on a handheld device.
Configuration of the HCA Web Server is simple and described later in this chapter.