JPH0468696A - Address setting method for device equipped with remote-controlled plural control units - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To perform address setting with one easy step by receiving a radio signal from a manual operation unit with a control unit and performing the address setting while copying the address of a signal. CONSTITUTION:The ON output of a button switch 20 for address reception provided on a control unit 10 is fetched in a CPU 13. In the case of receiving a command signal P from a remote control transmitter 30 after receiving the switch output of the switch 20, the CPU 13 stores the address code of this signal P in a memory as the self address code when this signal P is a first reception signal. After this address code is stored, the address code of the reception signal P is collated with the code of the memory, whether this signal P is for the self-destination or not is decided, and the designation control of a control data is performed as long as it is for self-destination.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Field of Industrial Application] The present invention relates to a method for setting an address for an apparatus having a plurality of remotely controlled control units.

[Conventional technology]

Conventionally, a system for automatically controlling electrical equipment in a house, for example, a system for controlling a group of lighting equipment, has been proposed in Japanese Patent Application No.
There is one described in No. 20433.

Fig. 3 shows a block diagram of this type of system, where 1 to 3 are lighting lights installed in one room, 10 is a control unit whose load is these lighting lights, and 30 is a manual operation unit. (hereinafter referred to as a remote control transmitter). As shown in FIG. 4, this remote control transmitter 30 has operation keys 31 to 33 and an address setting switch 34, and when the operation keys 31 to 33 are operated, a command signal P+, P! , Ps (- in brackets, P
) in the form of a radio signal (coded, e.g. infrared signal). This radio signal has a remote control transmitter 30, an address code preassigned to the control unit 10, and a control code preassigned to each of the lamps 1-3. 35 is an opening/closing lid.

Reference numeral 11 denotes a receiving element, which converts the radio signal sent by the remote control transmitter 30 into an electrical signal and sends it to the receiving circuit 12, and the receiving circuit 12 performs signal processing such as amplifying and shaping the received signal. The microcomputer (CPU) 13 is manually operated. The CPU 13 has a step of identifying whether the input command signal P is addressed to itself or not, and a step of decoding which of the illuminating lights 1 to 3 the command is directed to, for example, the command is directed to the illuminating light 1. If the command is for the illuminating lamp 2, the switch opening/closing command Sz is sent to the drive circuit 14, and if the command is for the illumination lamp 3, the switch opening/closing command S3 is sent to the drive circuit 14.

When the drive circuit 14 receives the switch opening/closing commands 51-S, it provides opening/closing control signals Q1-Q to the switches 15-17. Reference numeral 18 denotes a constant voltage power supply, which controls the voltage of the commercial power supply AC to a constant voltage and supplies the voltage to the receiving circuit 12, CPU 13, and drive circuit 14. A code setting switch 19 is used to set the address code assigned to the control unit 10 in the CPU 13.

[Problem to be solved by the invention]

When installing such a system in multiple rooms in a house,
In order to avoid interference, the above address code is assigned to each room as a pair of control device 10 and remote control transmitter 30, and the control unit 10 converts the address code of the received wireless signal into the address code registered in itself. The above-mentioned control operation is executed only when there is a match.

The address selection switches 19 and 34 are used to set this address code to the CPU 13 and the remote control transmitter 30, respectively, but the address setting switch 19 is built-in to set the address to the control unit 10, so the system described above It is necessary to operate a switch during construction, and when the number of systems to be installed increases, the setting work becomes troublesome and there is a problem in that construction workability is not good.

The present invention has been made in order to solve the above problems, and is a device equipped with a plurality of remotely controlled control units that allows address setting to be performed more easily and improves workability compared to the prior art. The purpose is to provide an address setting method.

[Means to solve the problem]

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention includes one manual operation unit that transmits a command signal to each of a plurality of electrical devices by key operation, and a manual operation unit that receives this command signal and identifies and decodes the code included in the command signal. It is equipped with multiple sets of control units that control the corresponding electrical equipment, and each control unit compares its own address code set in its built-in memory with the address code of the received command signal, and checks whether both codes are correct. When performing the above control when a match is made, each of the above control units has a push button switch for address reception, and on the condition that the push button switch is turned on, the first command received after the on input is performed. The configuration is such that the address code of the signal is accepted as the own address code and stored in the memory.

[Effect]

In the present invention, when a push button switch for accepting an address on the control unit is operated and a wireless signal is transmitted by operating any key on the remote control transmitter for which an address has been set, the control unit (control unit) is configured to transmit the code that the wireless signal has. Since the address code of the address code is registered in the memory as the code of the own address, there is no need to operate the address setting switch on the control unit node to set the address as in the past.

〔Example〕

Hereinafter, one embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

In FIG. 1, reference numeral 20 denotes an address receiving push button switch provided in the control unit, and its ON output is taken into the CPU 13 of the control unit 10.

The CPU 13 that receives this ON output operates according to the flowchart shown in FIG.

After receiving the switch output from the push button switch 20, the CPU 3 receives a command signal P from the remote control transmitter 30.
When this command signal P is received first, the address code of this command signal P is stored as its own address code in an address data area of a memory (not shown). After the address code is stored in the address data storage ramp of the above memory, the address code of the received command signal P is compared with the address code stored in the above memory to determine whether this command signal P is addressed to the self. The controller determines if the controller is the one addressed to the controller, and controls the lighting specified by the control data only if the controller is addressed to the controller.

As described above, in this embodiment, when the push button switch 20 of the control unit 10 is pressed and then any operation key of the remote controller or transmitter 3o in which the address code has been set is operated to generate the command signal P, The control unit) 10 copies the address code of this command signal P and thereafter uses this address code as its own address code to perform an address verification operation with the received command signal, so the address setting to the control unit 10 is as follows: , only one pushbutton switch 20 and one operation key need to be pressed, which can be easily performed after the system is installed.

In addition, in this embodiment, the push button switch 2° is valid only once when the system is installed, and once the -degree address is set, the address will not be changed even if the push button switch is pressed by mistake. Never.

In addition, although the said Example described the case where the illumination lights 1-3 which are control objects are remotely controlled through the control unit 10, the control objects are not limited to these.

〔Effect of the invention〕

As explained above, the present invention has a configuration in which the control unit receives a wireless signal from the manual operation unit, copies the address of the wireless signal, and completes the address setting. There is no need to operate multiple address setting switches to set the address, and the manual operation unit /
Since you only need to operate one key, you can easily set the address with a single touch.
Workability can be improved compared to conventional methods.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

Fig. 1 is a professional diagram showing an embodiment of the present invention, Fig. 2 is an operation flow diagram of the CPU in the above embodiment, Fig. 3 is a block diagram of a conventional lighting control system, and Fig. 4 is a manual control system. FIG. 3 is a plan view of the operation unit. 1~3-Lighting light, 10-Control unit, Engineering 3...CPU
, 14-drive circuit, 20-address acceptance push button switch, 30-manual operation unit, 31-33-operation keys 34.-address setting switch. Figure 2

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claims] One manual operation unit that transmits a command signal to each of a plurality of electrical devices by key operation, and an electrical device that receives this command signal and identifies and decodes a code included in the command signal to respond to the command signal. Each control unit compares its own address code set in its built-in memory with the address code of the received command signal, and if both codes match, When performing the above control, each of the control units has a push button switch for accepting an address, and on condition that the push button switch is turned on, the code of the address that the first command signal received after the turn on input is 1. A method for setting an address for a device having a plurality of remotely controlled control units, the method comprising: accepting the code as its own address code and storing it in a memory.