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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 12, 2021
Filed:
May. 01, 2019
K4connect Inc., Raleigh, NC (US);
Jonathan Andrew Gould, Raleigh, NC (US);
Daniel Mark Floyd, Raleigh, NC (US);
F. Scott Moody, Cary, NC (US);
Kuldip Pabla, San Jose, CA (US);
K4CONNECT INC., Raleigh, NC (US);
Abstract
A home automation (HA) system may include addressable HA devices and an HA interface device that includes a housing, a display, and an audio input device carried by the housing. The HA interface device may also include a controller carried by the housing to store HA device signatures of the addressable HA devices and determine an unpaired addressable HA device and compare the associated HA device signature of the unpaired addressable HA device with the stored HA device signatures. The controller may also, when there is a match between the HA device signature of the unpaired addressable HA device and one of the stored HA device signatures, permit pairing of the unpaired addressable HA device to communicate with the unpaired addressable HA device using a respective wireless communications protocol, and selectively operate paired addressable HA devices based upon voice commands received via the audio input device.