From KHarms at HCATech.com Thu Sep 10 09:24:21 2009 From: KHarms at HCATech.com (Kimberly Harms) Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 09:24:21 -0700 Subject: [HCAInfo] Home Control Assistant Version 9 now available for upgrade Message-ID: <011f01ca3233$29fc1e30$7df45a90$@com> Hello ! You are receiving this email because you asked to be on the Home Control Assistant mailing list. HCA has been continuously available for over 10 years. During that time we have strived to keep it up to date with new features and support for new hardware. With version 9 we did all that but we also decided it was time for a major refresh on the User Interface. While many of the concepts remain from previous versions of HCA, the user interface is much cleaner and focused. New elements like redrawn icons and icon themes, rebuilt dialogs, a rebuilt visual scheduler and visual programmer, as well as a major rework on the web interface all contribute to an improved user experience. We also added support for the latest Insteon and UPB gear and the tools, like the Insteon Visual Scene Editor, have been refined. And to complete the makeover we also rebuilt the whole HCA web site. The support team intends to be spending a lot of time on the user forums contributing each week a new HCA export, tip, or in depth look at a feature. You really need to get on the forum and see what unfolds over the next weeks and months. If you are a registered user of any version of HCA, you are, of course, able to upgrade at a fraction the price of a new purchase. We hope you do. One note on this: We have dropped the number of HCA flavors from 3 - Pro, Plus, and Standard - to two - Standard and Plus. If you were using HCA Pro you should upgrade to HCA Plus. All the features of Pro are now in HCA Plus. A complete list of changes in HCA 9 is here: http://www.hcatech.com/index.php?sid=features&pid=feature_list Thanks for supporting our development. The HCA Team. From KHarms at HCATech.com Tue Sep 29 14:58:43 2009 From: KHarms at HCATech.com (Kimberly Harms) Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 14:58:43 -0700 Subject: [HCAInfo] HCA Community Message-ID: <007f01ca4150$046382e0$0d2a88a0$@com> Hello. You are receiving this email because you placed your name on the HCA Announcement list. If you no longer want to receive these sorts of very infrequent emails, remove your name from the list by sending an email to HCAInfo-unsubscribe at HCATech.com Please do not reply to this message as the HCAInfo email address is not monitored. To contact Technical Support please send email to TechSup at HCATech.com There is 1 announcement in this email. Please read all the way to the end. [ HCA Community ] We setup this email announcement list to keep HCA users informed of new releases and bug fixes. HCA has always been a quiet product. We wanted a product that implemented your automation solution but didn't need constant attention. We wanted HCA to "run on the computer in the closet". And we succeeded. We also handled all support quietly and one-to-one via email, and in general, we do a good job on that. So often we provided feedback quickly enough that many users have come to rely on us for lots of questions that could be answered by the HCA Community - if we had one. Well now we do. The HCA Community Forums are new and not much traffic yet, but in the last few days we added a long article on the Visual Programmer Compute element and the Expression Builder, a short article on the new Home Mode concept, a tip for UPB users about how to get the most out of the UPB Setup tool, and some info on configuring the Visual Programmer for easier use. We are committed to posting at least once a week an article exploring an HCA feature you may not have explored. In the next week or so we hope to post a list of version 9.0 issues and an update with fixes. We will make that post on the Forum announcement list. If you would like, it is simple to subscribe to the forums so you get an email when new articles are posted. It's all described in a post we just made in the "News and Announcements" section. And now we need your help. As I said above HCA is a quiet product. It does what it does and does it well with no fuss. And for years our users have been a quiet bunch. But with the new Community we would really like if you could, on the forums, share some of the things you have learned in using HCA, some of the great techniques that you have developed. Remember: It's good to share! Please check it all out at: http://www.hcatech.com/forum/ Thanks for reading this. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: