UNIVERSAL REMOTE CONTROL SYSTEM

摘要

The invention relates to a universal remote control system (100) with a power monitoring device (20) that detects status information (SI) related to the power consumption of an initially unknown appliance (1) to be controlled and that transmits this status information to a remote control (10). During the setup of the remote control (10), at least one test command (TC(i)) is sent to the appliance (1) with different codes, and the resulting reaction of the status information (SI) is observed to detect the instance when a valid code that is understood by the appliance (1) has been used. The remote control can thus automatically adapt to the particular appliance (1).