摘要:
A home control and automation system and method. The system generally includes one or more wireless remote controls, a plurality of appliances (including network enabled appliances and traditional legacy appliances in the exemplary system), associated control centric devices, and associated content centric devices. Various methods for control and operation of appliances in the networked home control and automation environment are disclosed. Specifically, methods are disclosed which enable advanced home control features such as location based control setup and operation, network enabled legacy appliances and system integration, save and recall capabilities for appliance and media states, generic command based appliance controls, dynamic/complex macro command generation, and Internet based control capabilities from remote locations are disclosed in conjunction with the system of the current invention.
摘要:
Method for setting up a control centric device 14 to command operations of an appliance 12. The method comprises: reading RFID data with a remote control 10 from a RFID tag 702 associated with the appliance 12; using the RFID data 702 of the appliance 12 at the remote control 10 to retrieve command codes from an existing device database to control operations of the appliance 12; and disseminating the RFID data 702 from the remote control 10 to the control centric device 14 via a network, wherein the control centric device 14 uses the RFID data 702 to configure itself to transmit commands to control operations of the appliance 12.