PowerHome includes a UDP Broadcast server that will send UDP Ethernet packets to an internal network whenever certain activities occur within the PowerHome program. This server is used by the PowerHome Remote Clients as well as by other third party programs to monitor PowerHome internal activities and is a powerful means for communicating with other machines and applications running on your internal network. The UDP broadcast server runs in a separate thread from the main PowerHome program thereby offloading the broadcast activity so that PowerHome is not burdened with this activity.

PowerHome sends four different types of broadcast messages with each message type being sent on a different port and to a different IP address.You can optionally set the values on this screen so that all four messges are sent to the same port if so desired. Usually the default values are sufficient for this screen (most third party software is designed with these defaults in mind) but you may set the values however you like.