Commissioning and controlling load control devices
First Claim
1. A load control system comprising:
- a plurality of control devices including at least one load control device that is configured to control an amount of power provided to an electrical load, wherein each control device comprises a beacon transmitting circuit configured to transmit a respective control device beacon that comprises an identifier associated with the control device; and
a network device configured to;
discover the respective control device beacon for each control device of the plurality of control devices;
identify a signal strength at which the respective control device beacon is received for each control device of the plurality of control devices;
display the plurality of control devices in a list of control devices that is sorted according to the corresponding signal strength of each control device beacon;
receive indications of selections of at least two control devices in the list of control devices; and
associate the identifiers of the selected at least two control devices to enable control of the at least two load control devices upon subsequent reception of a command by one of the at least two control devices.
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Abstract
A load control system may include control devices capable of being associated with each other at one or more locations for performing load control. Control devices may include control-source devices and/or control-target devices. A location beacon may be discovered and a unique identifier in the location beacon may be associated with a unique identifier of one or more control devices. Upon subsequent discovery of the location beacon, the associated load control devices may be controlled. The beacons may be communicated via radio frequency signals, visible light communication, and/or audio signals. The visible light communication may be used to communicate other types of information to devices in the load control system. The visible light communication may be used to identify link addresses for communicating with load control devices, load control instructions, load control configuration instructions, network communication information, and/or the like. The information in the beacons may be used to commission and/or control the load control system.
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41 Claims
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1. A load control system comprising:
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a plurality of control devices including at least one load control device that is configured to control an amount of power provided to an electrical load, wherein each control device comprises a beacon transmitting circuit configured to transmit a respective control device beacon that comprises an identifier associated with the control device; and a network device configured to; discover the respective control device beacon for each control device of the plurality of control devices; identify a signal strength at which the respective control device beacon is received for each control device of the plurality of control devices; display the plurality of control devices in a list of control devices that is sorted according to the corresponding signal strength of each control device beacon; receive indications of selections of at least two control devices in the list of control devices; and associate the identifiers of the selected at least two control devices to enable control of the at least two load control devices upon subsequent reception of a command by one of the at least two control devices. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17)
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18. A method, comprising:
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discovering a control device beacon for a control device of a plurality of control devices, wherein the control device beacon comprises an identifier associated with the control device; identifying a signal strength at which the control device beacon is received for the control device of the plurality of control devices; displaying the plurality of control devices in a list of control devices that is sorted according to the signal strength of the control device beacon; receiving indications of selections of at least two control devices in the list of control devices; and associating the identifiers of the selected at least two control devices to enable control of the at least two load control devices upon subsequent reception of a command by one of the at least two control devices. - View Dependent Claims (19, 20, 21, 22, 23)
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24. A load control system comprising:
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a plurality of control devices including at least one load control device that is configured to control an amount of power provided to an electrical load, wherein each control device comprises a beacon transmitting circuit configured to transmit a respective control device beacon that comprises an identifier associated with the load control device; and a network device configured to; discover the respective control device beacon for each control device of the plurality of control devices; identify a signal strength at which the respective control device beacon is received for each control device of the plurality of load control devices; automatically select a control device if the signal strength of the respective beacon exceeds a selection threshold; and associate the respective identifiers of at least two control devices that have respective signal strengths that exceed the selection threshold to enable control of the associated load control devices upon subsequent reception of a command by one of the at least two control devices. - View Dependent Claims (25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36)
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37. A load control system comprising:
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a plurality of control devices including at least one load control device that is configured to control an amount of power provided to an electrical load, wherein each control device comprises a beacon transmitting circuit configured to transmit a respective control device beacon that comprises an identifier associated with the control device; and a network device configured to; discover the respective control device beacon for each control device of the plurality of control devices; identify other control devices that have been previously selected by the network device; display each control device of the plurality of control devices in which the respective control device beacon was discovered; display the identified other control devices that have been previously selected by the network device; receive an indication of a selection of at least one of the displayed each control device of the plurality of control devices in which the respective control device beacon was discovered and receive an indication of a selection of at least one of the displayed identified other control devices that have been previously selected by the network device; associate the identifier of the selected at least one of the displayed each control device of the plurality of control devices in which the respective control device beacon was discovered with the identifier of the at least one of the displayed other control devices that have been previously selected by the network device. - View Dependent Claims (38, 39, 40, 41)
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