Owner's Manual (Complete)

Chapter 4—Devices
The Home Control Assistant 17
Final device topics
There are two additional topics to discuss with devices.
Icon placement
As part of the device properties dialog you can select one or more displays to show an icon for the
device. If you are using a display with a DXF or picture background you may want to show more
than one icon for the device on the display. Perhaps this will make a more realistic appearing floor
plan.
To place more than one icon for a device on a display, right-click on the single icon placed by the
wizard and select
Icon and Add from the menu. At this point you can select the icon picture to use.
An additional icon for the device is created and placed on the display. You can then drag it to
whatever place you want.
To remove an icon, right-click on the icon and select
Icon and Remove from the menu. The icon is
removed from the display.
To change the picture of the icon, right-click on the icon and select
Icon and Change from the
menu.
Retrieving the status of a device
If a device supports status reporting you can have HCA request its status by using the right mouse
button to click the device name in the design pane or on an icon in the display pane and select
Get
Status
.
Switch Stored Scenes
If the device supports scenes (illumination level and in some cases the rate at with the light
changes up or down to that level), any scenes that you have identified to HCA are listed in the
popup menu. If you select one of those scene names, the command to set the switch to that scene
is sent.
HCA contains features from programming older legacy X10 switches that have the capability of
storing scenes. If you have such devices, enable the “Switch stored scenes” option on HCA
Properties Legacy tab. Once that is done then under the X10 menu are programming options.