The Control Center is the main PowerHome window.  This window can be set from within Preferences to behave as a normal window with minimize and maximize buttons or can be set to appear as a background for other windows.  You can also have the Control Center available on remote machines via the PowerHome Remote Clients. The Control Center is fully user definable with the number of tabs that it contains, what appears on each tab, as well as the actions that any buttons on the tab may perform.  You can place background bitmaps on any tab which could contain a floormap or an actual picture of an Infrared remote control in which you place hotspots which can be clicked to perform the desired actions.  The buttons that you place on the Control Center can be X10 commands, IR commands, Macros, or Send Keys.  You can assign virtually any keystroke combination to these buttons as well as using the mouse to activate them or using a touch screen.

There can only be one Control Center open.  It can be opened from the toolbar, from the menu Control / Control Center, or by pressing the hotkey 'Alt-F1'.  This hotkey combination works anywhere from within PowerHome and will instantly bring up the Control Center.  This is useful if you are trying to use an infrared or RF keyboard without a monitor handy as a super wireless remote.  Once the control center is active, you can select the current tab by either clicking on it or pressing a hotkey combination 'F1' thru 'F12' and 'Shift-F1' thru 'Shift-F12'.  The far left tab will always be 'F1'.  The tab to the right of this will be 'F2', etc.  If you have more than 12 tabs, then the 13th tab will be 'Shift-F1', etc.  You cannot hotkey to tabs above 24 but you can still mouse to them.  You create tabs for the Control Center from the Tabs section of the PowerHome Explorer.  You can also set the tabs order from within this maintenance area also.

Below are some examples of Control Center screens: