FACILITATED USE OF HETEROGENEOUS HOME-AUTOMATION EDGE COMPONENTS VIA A COMMON APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE
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1. An apparatus comprising:
- home-automation edge-component interfaces;
a control circuit operably coupled to the home-automation edge-component interfaces, wherein the control circuit is configured to interact with home-automation edge components using a common application programming interface.
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Abstract
A control circuit operably couples to a plurality of home-automation edge-component interfaces. This control circuit is configured to compatibly interact with a plurality of home-automation edge components via a common application programming interface. By one approach at least some of the plurality of home-automation edge components are operationally incompatible with one another.
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1. An apparatus comprising:
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home-automation edge-component interfaces; a control circuit operably coupled to the home-automation edge-component interfaces, wherein the control circuit is configured to interact with home-automation edge components using a common application programming interface. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. A home-automation manager configured to compatibly interact with a plurality of heterogeneous home-automation edge components, the home automation manager comprising:
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an applications interface; a memory having an application programming interface stored therein; a plurality of home-automation edge-component interfaces; a control circuit operably coupled to the applications interface, the memory, and the plurality of home-automation edge-component interfaces and configured to compatibly effect home-automation instructions received via the applications interface by using the application programming interface. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13)
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