Somfy Sas

Somfy Activites Sa

Isabelle Duchene

Frédéric Devis

Luc Marais

Jean-Noël Loiseau

Romain Passelande

Marie Coulomb

Pierre Mignot

Eric LaGarde

Mickaël Mugnier

Pierre-Yves Cogne

Bruno De Lescure

Stephane Lapierre

Claudia Rety

Jérôme Mathieu

Stéphane Lapierre

Michael Danis

Alexandre Espinasse

Vianney Guerin

Method for configuring, commanding and/or controlling a command and/or control interface (IN) of devices of a home automation installation, comprising the following steps: (E) collecting a set of status queries (E) relating to at least one possible status of at least one home automation device (), (E) constituting a selection of at least one status query (SeIE) of the set of status queries (E), (E) configuring an interface element (IN) on the basis of the selection of the at least one status query (SeIE), in such a way as to trigger transmission of a collection request (RC) comprising the selection, and obtaining, for each status query (E) of the selection, of at least one corresponding status indication (IDC) relating to at least one current status.

Method for configuring and method for controlling an interface of home automation equipments

A method of operating a home-automation installation, the home-automation installation including items of equipment fixed in a building and a mobile unit for controlling the items of equipment, the elements communicating over a home-automation network, each element being furnished with an identifier which is specific to it and with an authentication key specific to the home-automation network, termed 'common key', identical for all the elements and authenticating an element's membership of the home-automation network, The method includes a step of locating the mobile control unit and delivering an item of position information, then a step of pinpointing using at least the item of position information to pinpoint a particular item of equipment, the pinpointing step allowing the identification of the particular item of equipment and allowing the locating of the particular item of equipment in a mode of configuration of the home-automation installation.

Method of operating a home-automation installation

A home automation installation includes several sensors, several pieces of controlled home automation equipment, and a control unit communicating with the sensors and the controlled home automation equipment. To control this installation, it is provided to select a control scenario by the control unit for at least one parameterized sensor from among the sensors, at a current moment belonging to a periodic time range from among one or more time ranges associated with the parameterized sensor, and as a function of at least one current value of the signal coming from the parameterized sensor, then to send, by the control unit to at least one of the pieces of controlled home automation equipment, at least one order depending on the selected control scenario. To parameterize the control unit, a procedure is provided consisting of choosing a sensor to be parameterized from among at least one periodic activation time range and/or at least one periodic inhibition time range and associating at least one control scenario with at least one state or a change of state of the signal from the sensor to be parameterized.

Methods for controlling and parameterizing a home automation installation and home automation installation implementing said methods

A method for operating a control device of a home automation installation of a building, the control device comprising a data input device and a display device, the control device being configured so as to control the operation of home automation equipment items and communicate with sensors, the method including automatic operation configuration steps of selecting an icon representing a first condition for implementation of an action relating to the installation out of a proposed set of condition icons, positioning the first selected condition in a matrix table accommodating the condition icons, selecting an icon representing a second condition for implementation of an action relating to the installation, and positioning the icon representing the second condition on a same row or a same column as the icon representing the first condition in the matrix table.

Method for operating a control device of a home automation installation of a building and control device

Display screen with graphical user interface

A method for configuring a control interface for controlling a system including one or more pieces of home automation equipment, the control interface including an information screen on which may be displayed a time scale representing a time period with a defined duration, the method including steps of: (i): defining a plurality of associations, each association being defined between a scenario for controlling one or more pieces of home automation equipment and a triggering instant defined within the time period, at which the scenario has to be triggered by the control interface, (ii): producing a grouping of at least one portion of the association from among the plurality of defined associations, the triggering instants of which are defined within a time interval with a defined duration within the time period, (iii): positioning a collective reference mark on the time scale corresponding to the grouping at the time interval.

Factorization of scenarios

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.

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

Method of operating a device () for controlling home automation equipment () for orienting and/or displacing a moving product of a building, comprising a display screen (), on which a portion of the screen is assigned to the display of a first graphic representation, such as an equipment icon (), symbolizing this equipment, which method comprises a step for graphic adjustment of the first graphic representation so that it represents, at least approximately, the real degree of orientation and/or deployment of the moving product.

Method of operating a device for controlling home automation equipment

Device () for controlling home automation equipment () of a building, comprising a display screen (), in which the screen is assigned to the display of type icons (ITYP, ITYP, ITYP, ITYP, ITYP), a type icon representing a set of home automation equipment of one and the same type, the screen also being assigned to the display of location icons (ILOC, ILOC, ILOC, ILOC, ILOC, ILOC), a location icon representing a set of home automation equipment installed in one and the same place in the building, which control device comprises a first selection or navigation means () making it possible to position, in a reduced area () of the screen, either, a selected type icon or location icon, so as to display on the screen equipment icons (') representative of the home automation equipment assigned to said selected type icon or location icon.

Device for controlling home automation equipment of a building

Home electronic automation equipment to be controlled is selected from among several predefined groups of equipment, via capacitive sensors which are disposed next to one another on a control unit. A predefined group of equipment is selected by activating individual capacitive sensors. At least one additional group of equipment is selected via a predetermined sequence for activating several of the same capacitive sensors, of which at least two capacitive sensors are non-adjacent sensors.

Method for selecting an item of equipment and control unit enabling this method to be implemented

Method of operating a home automation system comprising:

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Marignier, France

Isabelle Duchene