WO2022247373A1

WO2022247373A1 - Method and apparatus for controlling home appliance, and appliance

Info

Publication number: WO2022247373A1
Application number: PCT/CN2022/078590
Authority: WO
Inventors: 郭继宾; 李艳春; 路炎; 封荣杰; 李恒元
Original assignee: 青岛海尔空调器有限总公司; 青岛海尔空调电子有限公司; 海尔智家股份有限公司
Priority date: 2021-05-24
Filing date: 2022-03-01
Publication date: 2022-12-01
Also published as: CN113341738A

Abstract

The present application relates to the technical field of smart homes, and discloses a method for controlling a home appliance, comprising: connecting a home appliance; acquiring constraint information and current state information of the home appliance; and, on the basis of the constraint information and the current state information, controlling the home appliance. By means of connecting a home appliance, constraint information and current state information of the home appliance are acquired and the home appliance is controlled on the basis of the constraint information and the current state information. The connected home appliance is controlled by means of acquiring the constraint information and the current state information of the connected home appliance, enabling different home appliances to be controlled by means of the same app. Also disclosed in the present application are an apparatus for controlling a home appliance, and an appliance.

Description

Method, device, and device for controlling household appliances

This application is based on a Chinese patent application with application number 202110563524.1 and a filing date of May 24, 2021, and claims the priority of this Chinese patent application. The entire content of this Chinese patent application is hereby incorporated by reference into this application.

technical field

The present application relates to the field of smart home technology, for example, to a method, device, and device for controlling household appliances.

Background technique

In the life of the rapid development of science and technology, smart home appliances are welcomed by people because of their humanized settings and intelligent and convenient operation methods. The popularity rate is constantly increasing, which provides convenience for users. However, in life, it often happens that the remote control of the smart home appliance cannot be found and the smart home appliance cannot be controlled. In order to solve this situation, many smart home appliances have added a function of controlling through an APP (Application, application program).

In the process of implementing the embodiments of the present disclosure, it is found that at least the following problems exist in related technologies:

When the home appliances are controlled through the APP, because the configurations of the home appliances are different, different APPs need to be customized for different home appliances.

Contents of the invention

In order to provide a basic understanding of some aspects of the disclosed embodiments, a brief summary is presented below. The summary is not intended to be an extensive overview nor to identify key/important elements or to delineate the scope of these embodiments, but rather serves as a prelude to the detailed description that follows.

Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method, device, and device for controlling household electrical appliances, so as to control different household electrical appliances through the same APP.

In some embodiments, the method for controlling a home appliance includes: connecting a home appliance; acquiring constraint information and current state information of the home appliance; controlling the home appliance according to the constraint information and the current state information.

In some embodiments, the apparatus for controlling household appliances includes a processor and a memory storing program instructions, and the processor is configured to execute the above-mentioned method for controlling household appliances when executing the program instructions. .

In some embodiments, the device includes the above-mentioned apparatus for controlling a household appliance.

The method, device, and device for controlling home appliances provided by the embodiments of the present disclosure can achieve the following technical effects: by connecting home appliances, obtain constraint information and current state information of home appliances, and control home appliances according to the constraint information and current state information equipment. By acquiring the constraint information and the current state information of the connected household appliances to control the connected household appliances, it is possible to control different household appliances through the same APP.

The foregoing general description and the following description are exemplary and explanatory only and are not intended to limit the application.

Description of drawings

One or more embodiments are exemplified by the corresponding drawings, and these exemplifications and drawings do not constitute a limitation to the embodiments, and elements with the same reference numerals in the drawings are shown as similar elements, The drawings are not limited to scale and in which:

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of a method for controlling household appliances provided by an embodiment of the present disclosure;

FIG. 2 is a sequence diagram of a method for controlling household appliances provided by an embodiment of the present disclosure;

Fig. 3 is a schematic diagram of an apparatus for controlling household electrical appliances provided by an embodiment of the present disclosure.

Detailed ways

In order to understand the characteristics and technical content of the embodiments of the present disclosure in more detail, the implementation of the embodiments of the present disclosure will be described in detail below in conjunction with the accompanying drawings. The attached drawings are only for reference and description, and are not intended to limit the embodiments of the present disclosure. In the following technical description, for purposes of explanation, numerous details are set forth in order to provide a thorough understanding of the disclosed embodiments. However, one or more embodiments may be practiced without these details. In other instances, well-known structures and devices may be shown simplified in order to simplify the drawings.

The terms "first", "second" and the like in the description and claims of the embodiments of the present disclosure and the above drawings are used to distinguish similar objects, and are not necessarily used to describe a specific sequence or sequence. It should be understood that the data so used may be interchanged under appropriate circumstances so as to facilitate the embodiments of the disclosed embodiments described herein. Furthermore, the terms "comprising" and "having", as well as any variations thereof, are intended to cover a non-exclusive inclusion.

Unless stated otherwise, the term "plurality" means two or more.

In the embodiments of the present disclosure, the character "/" indicates that the preceding and following objects are an "or" relationship. For example, A/B means: A or B.

The term "and/or" is an associative relationship describing objects, indicating that there can be three relationships. For example, A and/or B means: A or B, or, A and B, these three relationships.

As shown in FIG. 1 , an embodiment of the present disclosure provides a method for controlling household appliances, including:

Step S101, connecting home appliances;

Step S102, obtaining constraint information and current status information of household electrical appliances;

Step S103, controlling the household electrical appliances according to the constraint information and the current state information.

Using the method for controlling household appliances provided by the embodiments of the present disclosure, by connecting the household appliances, obtaining the constraint information and current state information of the household appliances, and controlling the household appliances according to the constraint information and current state information, by obtaining the connected household appliances Constraint information and current status information are used to control the connected home appliances, and it is possible to control different home appliances through the same APP.

Optionally, the home appliances include smart air conditioners, smart TVs, smart refrigerators, and the like.

Optionally, connecting the home appliance includes: acquiring a physical communication address of the home appliance; acquiring model information corresponding to the physical communication address; and connecting the home appliance according to the physical communication address and model information.

Optionally, the physical communication address of the home appliance is a Bluetooth MAC (Media Access Control Address, Media Access Control Address) address of the home appliance. Due to the development of smart phones and cost considerations, more and more smart phones do not support the infrared remote control function, making many universal remote control APPs that use infrared remote control unusable. The method for controlling home appliances provided by the embodiments of the present disclosure uses bluetooth communication to connect home appliances. Compared with the universal remote control APP that uses infrared remote control in the prior art, the use range is wider, and it is convenient for users to control the home appliances through the same APP. Control different home appliances.

Optionally, obtaining the physical communication address of the home appliance includes: obtaining the Bluetooth UUID (Universally Unique Identifier, Universally Unique Identifier) of the home appliance; obtaining the Bluetooth MAC address corresponding to the Bluetooth UUID according to the preset association relationship; Determined as the physical communication address of the home appliance. Due to the security considerations of the iOS (i-Operation System, Apple mobile operating system) system, the user terminal installed with the iOS system cannot obtain the Bluetooth MAC address of the home appliance, but can only obtain the Bluetooth UUID of the home appliance. Store the relationship between the Bluetooth UUID and the Bluetooth MAC address of the home appliance in the broadcast protocol or user terminal, obtain the Bluetooth MAC address corresponding to the Bluetooth UUID according to the relationship, and determine the Bluetooth MAC address as the physical communication address of the home appliance, and then The home appliance is connected through the physical communication address and the corresponding model information, so that the user can control the home appliance.

Optionally, obtaining the model information corresponding to the physical communication address includes: sending the physical communication address of the household electrical appliance to the server, triggering the server to feed back the model information corresponding to the physical communication address; receiving the model information fed back by the server.

In some embodiments, the physical communication address of the household appliance and its corresponding model information are displayed, and the receiving user

Optionally, connecting the home appliance according to the physical communication address and model information includes: displaying the model information; receiving a user-input selection instruction including the model information; connecting the home appliance through the physical communication address corresponding to the model information included in the selection instruction.

In some embodiments, the user terminal displays the model information corresponding to several physical communication addresses, and the user can select the corresponding household electrical appliance in the model information displayed to connect, and receive the selection instruction input by the user including the model information; through the selection instruction The physical communication address corresponding to the included model information is connected to the home appliance. In this way, the household appliances that need to be connected are determined through the model information, which solves the problem that it is difficult for users to distinguish whether the corresponding household appliances are household appliances that need to be connected through the physical communication address, and thus may connect the wrong household appliances. It is convenient for users to connect and control household appliances .

Optionally, after connecting the home appliance, it also includes: obtaining the account ID corresponding to the user terminal; obtaining the device ID of the home appliance; sending the account ID, device ID, physical communication address and model information to the server, and triggering the server to check the account ID, Device ID, physical communication address and model information are stored in association.

Optionally, sending the device ID to the server triggers the server to feed back the physical communication address and model information corresponding to the device ID; receive the physical communication address and model information corresponding to the device ID fed back by the server; connect the home appliance according to the physical communication address and model information. The user terminal associates the account ID, device ID, physical communication address and model information and stores them in the server. When the home appliance needs to be connected again, the user terminal directly obtains the physical communication address and model information corresponding to the home appliance stored in the server. To connect the home appliances to facilitate the reconnection with the home appliances.

Optionally, after connecting the home appliance, it also includes: obtaining the account ID corresponding to the user terminal; obtaining the device ID of the home appliance; sending the account ID, device ID, physical communication address and model information to the home appliance, and triggering the account registration of the home appliance. ID, device ID, physical communication address and model information are stored in association.

Optionally, the trigger household appliance associates the account ID, device ID, physical communication address and model information, and stores them in a preset database.

Optionally, obtain the account ID of the current user terminal, send a connection request containing the account ID of the current user terminal to the home appliance, trigger the home appliance to search for the same account ID as the account ID of the current user terminal in a preset database, and If the same account ID is not found, the connection request is rejected. In this way, the account ID is added to the home appliance as an authentication credential, and the connection request is sent to the home appliance again after disconnection, which triggers the home appliance to compare the account ID of the current user terminal with the account ID in the home appliance database. The account ID of the terminal is different from the account ID in the home appliance database, that is, if the database does not represent the same account as the current user terminal, the connection request is rejected, preventing user terminals of other accounts from connecting to and controlling home appliances, and improving the efficiency of connecting home appliances. Device Security.

Optionally, obtain the account ID of the current user terminal, send an unbinding command containing the account ID of the current user terminal to the home appliance, and trigger the home appliance to search for the same account ID as the account ID of the current user terminal in a preset database , if the same account ID is found, delete the associated information corresponding to the account ID in the household appliance database. In this way, the account ID is added to the home appliance as an authentication credential, and when it is necessary to unbind the home appliance, an unbinding command containing the account ID of the current user terminal is sent to the home appliance to trigger the home appliance to unbind the current user terminal. Compare the account ID of the terminal with the account ID in the home appliance database, and delete the account if the account ID of the current user terminal is the same as the account ID in the home appliance database, that is, the same account as the current user terminal exists in the database The associated information corresponding to the ID can continue to connect to user terminals of other accounts, improving the security of connected home appliances.

Optionally, obtaining the constraint information of the home appliance includes: sending the model information of the home appliance to the server, triggering the server to feed back constraint information corresponding to the model information; receiving the constraint information fed back by the server, and determining the constraint information fed back by the server as the home appliance Constraint information.

Optionally, acquiring the current status information of the household electrical appliance includes: sending a status acquisition request to the household electrical appliance, triggering the household electrical appliance to feed back the current status information of the household electrical appliance; and receiving the current status information fed back by the household electrical appliance. In some embodiments, the current state information fed back by the smart air conditioner includes the current air conditioner operating mode, the executable air conditioner operating mode, the current temperature, the set temperature, the current humidity, the set humidity, and the like.

Optionally, controlling the household electrical appliances according to the constraint information and current state information includes: generating and displaying a control interface according to the constraint information and current state information; obtaining user setting information through the control interface; generating control instructions according to the user setting information; Control home appliances.

Optionally, the constraint information includes parameter rules and instruction rules. Optionally, the parameter rule is used to determine the mutually exclusive relationship of the controllable parameters of the corresponding household appliances. Optionally, the instruction rule is used to determine the mutually exclusive relationship of the control instructions of the corresponding household appliances.

Optionally, generating and displaying a control interface according to constraint information and current state information, including: obtaining controllable parameters according to current state information; obtaining parameter rules in constraint information; adjusting controllable parameters according to parameter rules to obtain interface parameters ; Generate and display the control interface according to the interface parameters. In this way, the controllable parameters are obtained according to the current status information of the household appliances and the constraint information corresponding to the model information of the household appliances is obtained. The parameter rules in the constraint information are used to determine the mutually exclusive relationship of the controllable parameters of the corresponding household appliances. Through the parameter rules Adjust the controllable parameters to obtain the interface parameters, and generate the control interface according to the interface parameters, so that different types of home appliances correspond to different control interfaces, and then control the corresponding home appliances through different control interfaces, so that the same APP can control different home appliances. control. In addition, the control interface can be customized according to the model information of the home appliance and user requirements, making the control interface more humanized, convenient for users to use, and reducing learning costs for users.

Optionally, controlling the household electrical appliance according to the control instruction includes: if the control instruction does not conflict with the constraint information, sending the control instruction to the household electrical appliance, and triggering the household electrical appliance to execute the control instruction. By obtaining the constraint information corresponding to the model information of the household appliances, the instruction rules in the constraint information are used to determine the mutual exclusion relationship of the control instructions of the corresponding household appliances. Before sending the control instructions to the household appliances, check whether the control instructions are valid according to the instruction rules It is executed by the home appliance, avoiding the problem that the control instruction does not match the home appliance and cannot be executed, thus realizing the control of different home appliances through the same APP.

As shown in FIG. 2 , an embodiment of the present disclosure provides a method for controlling a household appliance, including:

Step S201, the user terminal obtains the physical communication address of the household electrical appliance;

Step S202, the user terminal sends the physical communication address of the household electrical appliance to the server;

Step S203, the server receives the physical communication address sent by the user terminal and obtains the model information corresponding to the physical communication address;

Step S204, the server sends the model information corresponding to the physical communication address to the user terminal;

Step S205, the user terminal receives the model information corresponding to the physical communication address sent by the server;

Step S206, the user terminal connects to the home appliance according to the physical communication address and model information;

Step S207, the user terminal sends a status acquisition request to the home appliance;

Step S208, the household electrical appliance receives the status acquisition request sent by the user terminal;

Step S209, the home appliance sends current state information to the user terminal;

Step S210, the user terminal receives the current state information sent by the household electrical appliance;

Step S211, the user terminal sends the model information of the home appliance to the server;

Step S212, the server receives the model information of the household electrical appliance sent by the user terminal and obtains constraint information corresponding to the model information;

Step S213, the server sends constraint information corresponding to the model information to the user terminal;

Step S214, the user terminal generates and displays a control interface according to the constraint information and current state information;

Step S215, the user terminal acquires user setting information through the control interface and generates a control instruction according to the user setting information;

Step S216, the user terminal sends the control command to the household electrical appliance under the condition that the control command does not conflict with the constraint information;

In step S217, the household electrical appliance receives the control instruction sent by the user terminal and executes the control instruction.

Optionally, the user terminal includes a smart phone, a computer, a tablet computer, and the like.

Using the method for controlling household appliances provided by the embodiments of the present disclosure, by connecting the household appliances, obtaining constraint information and current state information of the household appliances, generating a control interface according to the constraint information and current state information, and controlling the household appliances through the control interface. By obtaining the constraint information and current status information of the connected home appliances to control the connected home appliances, different home appliances can be controlled through the same APP, and the cost of developing APPs is reduced, which is energy-saving and environmentally friendly.

As shown in FIG. 3 , an embodiment of the present disclosure provides an apparatus for controlling a household appliance, including a processor (processor) 300 and a memory (memory) 301 . Optionally, the device may further include a communication interface (Communication Interface) 302 and a bus 303. Wherein, the processor 300 , the communication interface 302 , and the memory 301 can communicate with each other through the bus 303 . The communication interface 302 can be used for information transmission. The processor 300 may invoke logic instructions in the memory 301 to execute the method for controlling a household electrical appliance in the above embodiments.

Using the device for controlling household appliances provided by the embodiments of the present disclosure, by connecting the household appliances, obtaining the constraint information and current status information of the household appliances, and controlling the connected household appliances by acquiring the constraint information and current status information of the connected household appliances The device can realize the control of different home appliances through the same APP.

In addition, the above logic instructions in the memory 301 may be implemented in the form of software functional units and may be stored in a computer-readable storage medium when sold or used as an independent product.

The memory 301, as a computer-readable storage medium, can be used to store software programs and computer-executable programs, such as program instructions/modules corresponding to the methods in the embodiments of the present disclosure. The processor 300 executes the program instructions/modules stored in the memory 301 to execute functional applications and data processing, that is, to implement the methods for controlling household appliances in the above-mentioned embodiments.

The memory 301 may include a program storage area and a data storage area, wherein the program storage area may store an operating system and an application program required by at least one function; the data storage area may store data created according to the use of the terminal device, and the like. In addition, the memory 301 may include a high-speed random access memory, and may also include a non-volatile memory.

An embodiment of the present disclosure provides a device, including the above-mentioned apparatus for controlling a household appliance. Optionally, the device includes user terminals such as smart phones, computers, and tablet computers.

The device obtains the constraint information and current state information of the home appliance by connecting the home appliance, controls the home appliance according to the constraint information and current state information, and controls the connected home appliance by obtaining the constraint information and current state information of the connected home appliance , It can realize the control of different home appliances through the same APP.

An embodiment of the present disclosure provides a computer-readable storage medium, which stores computer-executable instructions, and the computer-executable instructions are configured to execute the above-mentioned method for controlling a household electrical appliance.

An embodiment of the present disclosure provides a computer program product, the computer program product includes a computer program stored on a computer-readable storage medium, the computer program includes program instructions, and when the program instructions are executed by a computer, the The computer executes the above-mentioned method for controlling household appliances.

The above-mentioned computer-readable storage medium may be a transitory computer-readable storage medium, or a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium.

The technical solutions of the embodiments of the present disclosure can be embodied in the form of software products, which are stored in a storage medium and include one or more instructions to make a computer device (which can be a personal computer, a server, or a network equipment, etc.) to perform all or part of the steps of the method described in the embodiments of the present disclosure. The aforementioned storage medium can be a non-transitory storage medium, including: U disk, mobile hard disk, read-only memory (ROM, Read-Only Memory), random access memory (RAM, Random Access Memory), magnetic disk or optical disc, etc. A medium that can store program code, or a transitory storage medium.

The above description and drawings sufficiently illustrate the embodiments of the present disclosure to enable those skilled in the art to practice them. Other embodiments may incorporate structural, logical, electrical, procedural, and other changes. The examples merely represent possible variations. Individual components and functions are optional unless explicitly required, and the order of operations may vary. Portions and features of some embodiments may be included in or substituted for those of other embodiments. Also, the terms used in the present application are used to describe the embodiments only and are not used to limit the claims. As used in the examples and description of the claims, the singular forms "a", "an" and "the" are intended to include the plural forms as well unless the context clearly indicates otherwise . Similarly, the term "and/or" as used in this application is meant to include any and all possible combinations of one or more of the associated listed ones. Additionally, when used in this application, the term "comprise" and its variants "comprises" and/or comprising (comprising) etc. refer to stated features, integers, steps, operations, elements, and/or The presence of a component does not preclude the presence or addition of one or more other features, integers, steps, operations, elements, components and/or groupings of these. Without further limitations, an element defined by the statement "comprising a ..." does not exclude the presence of additional identical elements in the process, method or apparatus comprising said element. Herein, what each embodiment focuses on may be the difference from other embodiments, and the same and similar parts of the various embodiments may refer to each other. For the method, product, etc. disclosed in the embodiment, if it corresponds to the method part disclosed in the embodiment, then the relevant part can refer to the description of the method part.

Those skilled in the art can appreciate that the units and algorithm steps of the examples described in conjunction with the embodiments disclosed herein can be implemented by electronic hardware, or a combination of computer software and electronic hardware. Whether these functions are performed by hardware or software may depend on the specific application and design constraints of the technical solution. Said artisans may implement the described functions using different methods for each particular application, but such implementation should not be regarded as exceeding the scope of the disclosed embodiments. The skilled person can clearly understand that for the convenience and brevity of the description, the specific working process of the above-described system, device and unit can refer to the corresponding process in the foregoing method embodiment, which will not be repeated here.

In the embodiments disclosed herein, the disclosed methods and products (including but not limited to devices, equipment, etc.) can be implemented in other ways. For example, the device embodiments described above are only illustrative. For example, the division of the units may only be a logical function division. In actual implementation, there may be other division methods. For example, multiple units or components may be combined Or it can be integrated into another system, or some features can be ignored, or not implemented. In addition, the mutual coupling or direct coupling or communication connection shown or discussed may be through some interfaces, and the indirect coupling or communication connection of devices or units may be in electrical, mechanical or other forms. The units described as separate components may or may not be physically separated, and the components shown as units may or may not be physical units, that is, they may be located in one place, or may be distributed to multiple network units. Some or all of the units can be selected according to actual needs to implement this embodiment. In addition, each functional unit in the embodiments of the present disclosure may be integrated into one processing unit, each unit may exist separately physically, or two or more units may be integrated into one unit.

The flowchart and block diagrams in the figures illustrate the architecture, functionality, and operation of possible implementations of systems, methods and computer program products according to embodiments of the disclosure. In this regard, each block in a flowchart or block diagram may represent a module, program segment, or part of code that includes one or more Executable instructions. In some alternative implementations, the functions noted in the block may occur out of the order noted in the figures. For example, two blocks in succession may, in fact, be executed substantially concurrently, or they may sometimes be executed in the reverse order, depending upon the functionality involved. In the descriptions corresponding to the flowcharts and block diagrams in the accompanying drawings, the operations or steps corresponding to different blocks may also occur in a different order than that disclosed in the description, and sometimes there is no specific agreement between different operations or steps. order. For example, two consecutive operations or steps may, in fact, be performed substantially concurrently, or they may sometimes be performed in the reverse order, depending upon the functionality involved. Each block in the block diagrams and/or flowcharts, and combinations of blocks in the block diagrams and/or flowcharts, can be implemented by a dedicated hardware-based system that performs the specified function or action, or can be implemented by dedicated hardware implemented in combination with computer instructions.

Claims

A method for controlling household electrical appliances, characterized by comprising:

Connecting home appliances;

Acquiring constraint information and current state information of the household electrical appliances;

and controlling the household electrical appliances according to the constraint information and the current state information.
The method according to claim 1, characterized in that, connecting the household appliances comprises:

Obtain the physical communication address of the home appliance;

Obtaining model information corresponding to the physical communication address;

Connecting the household electrical appliances according to the physical communication address and the model information.
The method according to claim 2, wherein obtaining the model information corresponding to the physical communication address comprises:

Sending the physical communication address of the home appliance to the server, triggering the server to feed back the model information corresponding to the physical communication address;

Receive model information fed back by the server.
The method according to claim 2, characterized in that, after connecting the home appliances, further comprising:

Obtain the account ID corresponding to the user terminal; obtain the device ID of the home appliance;

Send the account ID, the device ID, the physical communication address and the model information to the home appliance, triggering the home appliance to associate the account ID, the device ID, the physical communication address and the model information store.
The method according to claim 2, wherein obtaining constraint information of household appliances includes:

Sending the model information of the home appliance to the server, triggering the server to feed back constraint information corresponding to the model information;

The constraint information fed back by the server is received, and the constraint information fed back by the server is determined as the constraint information of the household electrical appliance.
The method according to claim 1, wherein obtaining the current status information of the household electrical appliances comprises:

sending a status acquisition request to the household electrical appliance, triggering the household electrical appliance to feed back the current status information of the household electrical appliance;

The current state information fed back by the household electrical appliance is received.
The method according to claim 1, wherein controlling the home appliance according to the constraint information and the current state information comprises:

Generate and display a control interface based on constraint information and current state information;

Obtain user setting information through the control interface;

generating a control instruction according to the user setting information;

The household appliances are controlled according to the control instructions.
The method according to claim 7, wherein controlling the household electrical appliances according to the control instruction comprises:

In the case that the control instruction does not conflict with the constraint information, the control instruction is sent to the home appliance, and the home appliance is triggered to execute the control instruction.
A device for controlling household electrical appliances, comprising a processor and a memory storing program instructions, wherein the processor is configured to execute any one of claims 1 to 8 when running the program instructions. The method for controlling household appliances.
A device, characterized by comprising the device for controlling household electrical appliances as claimed in claim 9 .