Learning method for a device for controlling home automation apparatuses in a building

摘要

The invention relates to a training method for a device for controlling home automation apparatuses in a building, said method including: a display screen on which each home automation apparatus is represented by any apparatus icon or, failing that, by an apparatus-type icon combined with an apparatus name, an information reception means, characterized in that an action at a control means specific to a home automation apparatus results, at the control device, in the initiation of a step for the automatic search for and selection of the apparatus or apparatus-type icon representing said home automation apparatus.

主权项

1. A learning method for a control device for home automation equipment items of a building, comprising:
displaying a dynamic equipment icon or an equipment type icon associated with an equipment name for each home automation equipment item of the automation equipment items on a display screen of the control device, wherein the equipment type icon is a schematic representation of a type of a home automation equipment item that can be activated by an actuator or the dynamic equipment icon is a schematic representation of a home automation equipment item that can be activated by an actuator; receiving an information item through an information reception means, wherein the information item is transmitted by a home automation equipment item to the information reception means and contains an equipment item's identifier, wherein each home automation equipment item of the automation equipment items can be controlled by an associated specific control means, and wherein an action on the associated specific control means of a home automation equipment item triggers:
sending a message containing its identifier from the home automation equipment item to the control device, andupon receiving of said message on the control device, automatically searching and selecting on the display screen of the control device the dynamic equipment icon or the equipment type icon representing the home automation equipment item, andautomatically searching and selecting a location icon if the home automation equipment item has been previously associated with a group of equipment items represented by the location icon; setting the control device in a status awaiting new information concerning actual status of each home automation equipment item of the automation equipment items; detecting transmission of control commands or control command execution information over a home automation network by the control device; sending, by the control device to an actuator of a home automation equipment item of the home automation equipment items a request for the actuator to reply with information on its status; and automatically updating the dynamic equipment icon or the equipment type icon by modification of its appearance according to new status of the home automation equipment item of the automation equipment items, wherein the new status of the home automation equipment item of the automation equipment items is based on the reply from the actuator.