Version 10

Home Control Assistant is provided with three manuals, each in both DOC and PDF format. We have found that the DOC files result in the best results for printing with the screen image captures. All documentation is available for you to download now. If you purchased a physical disk then the manuals are included on the CD.

The Hardware Connection Guide describes how to connect the automation interfaces supported by HCA to your computer.

If you have upgraded to HCA 10, you may want to only download the changed chapters. Links to them are given below.

The HCA User Guide is your major resource on how to use HCA and contains chapters on each major feature of HCA. As HCA is so feature packed, this is a large manual containing these chapters:

  1. What is the Home Control Assistant?
  2. HCA Properties
  3. Your Home
  4. Devices
  5. Home Modes
  6. Groups
  7. Programs and the Visual Programmer
  8. Expressions
  9. Scripts
  10. Displays
  11. Schedules and Schedule entries
  12. Visual Scheduler
  13. Visual Scene Editor
  14. Restart
  15. Troubleshooter
  16. Date Book
  17. Icon Themes
  18. Design Tools
  19. Status Export
  20. Design Import and Export
  21. Web Component
  22. Touch Screen Interface
  23. Client Server
  24. HCA for Android
  25. Getting Help

In addition to the User Guide, a number of appendixes are available. Each appendix covers a major HCA hardware topic in depth. These are collected into a single document and include:

  1. HCA Limited, Standard, and Plus features
  2. CM11 and CM15
  3. Elk Products Magic Module
  4. Lightolier Compose System
  5. SmartHome HouseLinc, IRLinc, PowerLinc, and PowerLinc Controller
  6. Marrick Ltd. Interfaces
  7. Downloading schedules and programs
  8. Programmable devices
  9. Thermostats
  10. Weather
  11. IR Interfaces
  12. Wireless Interfaces
  13. Automation
  14. UPB
  15. Insteon
  16. Protocol Bridges
Document PDF Format DOC Format
User Guide UserGuide.pdf (10.5 mb) UserGuide.doc (12.0 mb)
Appendixes Appendixes.pdf (3.4 mb) Appendixes.doc (4.6 mb)
Hardware Connection Guide HCG.pdf (250 kb) HCG.doc (64 kb)

Here are some additional documents on the major V10 changes:

Document PDF Format DOC Format
Touch Screen Interface Chapter Ch22_TUI.pdf (1.7 mb) Ch22_TUI.doc (1.7 mb)
Client-Server Server Chapter Ch23_ClientServer.pdf (400 kb) Ch23_ClientServer.doc (277 kb)
HCA for Android Chapter Ch24_Android.pdf (542 kb) Ch24_Android.doc (338 kb)
Bitwise BC4 Appendix Apx11_IR.pdf (1.7 mb) Apx11_IR.doc (979 kb)

We also suggest you take a look at the Technical Notes and FAQs as linked to in the Support section of the site.