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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 19, 2017
Filed:
Jun. 29, 2016
K4connect Inc., Raleigh, NC (US);
Jonathan Andrew Gould, Raleigh, NC (US);
Daniel Mark Floyd, Raleigh, NC (US);
K4CONNECT INC., Raleigh, NC (US);
Abstract
A home automation (HA) system may include addressable HA devices each having a respective HA device signature associated therewith and each wirelessly communicating using respective different wireless communications protocols from among different wireless communications protocols. The HA system may also include a controller and a memory coupled thereto. The memory may store HA device signatures for paired and unpaired ones of the addressable HA devices. The controller may poll the addressable HA devices, determine an unpaired addressable HA device based upon the polling, and compare the associated HA device signature of the unpaired addressable HA device with the stored HA device signatures. The controller 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, may permit pairing of the unpaired addressable HA device to communicate therewith using the respective wireless communications protocol.