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| Home Control Assistant 9 Plus |
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| Item# 12689 |
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Overview
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- Integrate into one solution Insteon, UPB, X10, IR, wireless, weather stations, thermostats, and irrigation
- Create scenes with Insteon devices using a graphical tool and remotely program then into your devices
- Control lights and appliances based upon what state your home is in: Are you home? Are you away? Are you asleep?
- Develop solutions that bridge from one protocol to another. Want to control an Insteon switch from an X10 motion sensor or UPB keypad? No problem!
- Interact with your home remotely from any web browser
- Save energy by selecting which lights and appliances should turn off when you leave your house
- Conserve water by having your irrigation system delay watering when it rains
- Create powerful programs that control devices in your home. Over 50 actions including conditionals are available for use in programs. Programs are constructed using a visual approach - no programming language - just draw the program you want
- Automatically send emails based on a schedule or event
- Schedule your bedrooms lights to slowly come on over several minutes to awake you each week day instead of being woken by an alarm clock
- Turn all the lights in your house on or off when you press one switch at your bedside
- Turn on outside and entryway lights at dusk every day, or before you get home from work on weekdays
- Dim hall lights, turn on a ceiling light, and turn on the children's night light at a preset time each evening
- Easily handle power failures by restoring the previous state of your home when power is restored
- Fully documents in an extensive user guide and appendix
Essential Info
Home Control Assistant (HCA) is a Windows based home automation program that works with a variety of automation interfaces to control lights, appliances, irrigation, HVAC and more. With HCA's Scheduling and Green Mode features you can easily save money, reduce electrical usage, conserve water and improve safety by automating your home.
The Home Control Assistant runs on any computer that uses the Windows XP, Vista or Win7 operating system. It works with automation interfaces to control lights and appliances in your home using X10, INSTEON, UPB, Wireless and Global Cache IR technology.
HCA can be installed in a home with an existing automation hardware. HCA can "spider" through all your installed Insteon network and find all the devices and add them to your home design file. If you are using UPB, HCA can import the network from the UPB setup program. A new automation solution is easy to create using the built-in Wizards for creating a new file, adding devices, creating new schedules, and new programs. Once you have defined all the hardware, adding schedules and programs is simple using the Visual Tools provided. Setting up remote access will be very quick as the HCA Web Server is included when you install HCA Plus.
Manuals/Software
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More Info
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HCA 9 supports these INSTEON products:
PowerLinc - HCA supports the USB INSTEON PowerLinc V2 Controller (2414U) or PowerLinc Modem (2412S or 2412U).
Common Insteon devices - All the common INSTEON switches and modules are supported.
Thermostat - The INSTEON thermostat adapter is supported.
EZ-Rain - The INSTEON irrigation controller - the EZ-Rain - is supported.
RemoteLinc - The 6 button wireless remote is supported.
EZIO - The INSTEON input output module - both the EZIO8SA and EZIO2X4 are supported.
IR Linc - The INSTEON IR receiver is supported. Any message generated by an IR Keypad or the credit card remote can be received by HCA and used to trigger a program or device.
Motion Sensor - The INSTEON motion sensor adapter is supported when the 2412 PowerLinc modem is used as the INSTEON interface to HCA.
I/O Linc - The INSTEON two input and one output module is supported.
Two Different Versions
Don't need support for UPB, HVAC, Weather, and a Web Interface? HCA 9 Standard.
Try before you buy
A 30 day trial of HCA Plus is available for download so you can evaluate HCA before you purchase. With a time limited trial, you get a copy of the software that is fully functional - no program actions are disabled.
After you download and install you can use the evaluation for 30 days. At the end of that time you will be unable to run the program. The software used to time limit the executable is very sensitive to attempts to bypass its security. If you change the date on your computer after you install HCA you may not get the full 30 day trial period.
On Windows Vista or Windows 7, the first time you execute HCA after you complete the install you must do it as an administrator in order to set the time lock. Right-click on "HCA" after you browse to it from the Start button and select "Run as Administrator".
A good way to start with HCA is to look at the sample file "MyHome.HCA" installed in the Samples sub-folder of the HCA folder in your Documents area.
A fully functional version of HCA 9 can be downloaded here
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