Lutron Technology Company LLC

Lutron Electronics Company, Inc.

Matthew Bamberger

John B Nill

Christopher Matthew Jones

Jason M Swails

Brian Michael Courtney

Jason C Killo

Christopher Michael Jones

Justin J Mierta

Lawrence R Carmen, Jr

Neil R Orchowski

William Harlan Howe

Kevin Kocher

Paul DiBenedetto

Lawrence R Carmen

Systems and methods are disclosed for communicating with and controlling load control systems of respective user environments from locations that are remote from the user environments.

Communicating with and controlling load control systems

Communicating with and controlling load control systems by communicating messages from the load control systems related to events that occur in the load control systems

A control system includes a processor transmitting signals to a shade network and a lighting system directing that motorized shades and dimmable loads be set to desired intensity levels. A communication interface having a buffer is connected between the processor and the shade network. The communication interface provides for communication with the processor based on streaming protocol and with the shade network based on event-based protocol. The shade network converts intensity levels into shade positions. The processor may direct the shade network to move a shade in a series of substantially equal steps to simulate a relatively slowly moving shade. The processor may be connected to a timing device for creating a program based on time-based shade position information for directing the shades to be moved to given positions at certain times of day. A computer running user interface software may be be connected to the system to facilitate programming.

Integrated system for controlling lights and shades

In an electric system that controls electrical or state variable devices through inputs received from device operators such as switches, buttons and the like, where some of the button control or set sequences for the electrical devices and others predefined 'presets', an automatic sequence tracking process monitors the system and adjusts the position of the sequence steps for buttons that are associated therewith, to ensure that they always track the current condition of the electrical devices. Thereby, actuation of sequence generating buttons will always choose the next step in a sequence for the corresponding electrical device.

Method and apparatus for tracking sequences of an electrical device controllable from multiple locations

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