CN-121995780-A - Household appliance control system, server device, recording medium, and household appliance control method

Abstract

The invention relates to a home appliance control system, a server device, a recording medium, and a home appliance control method. The convenience of the user is improved when the home appliances disconnected from the network are reconnected. The recording medium is recorded with an application program for causing a computer to execute a step of transmitting a connection instruction concerning connection of a home appliance instructed by a user, device information concerning the home appliance, and user identification information to a server device, and the server device is provided with a communication unit for receiving the device information, the user identification information, and the connection instruction from the application program, a new registration unit for performing initialization processing of past information concerning the home appliance to be newly registered in the device management information when the connection instruction is the new registration instruction, performing new registration of the home appliance, and a reconnection unit for performing reconnection processing with the home appliance without performing initialization processing of past information concerning the home appliance to be reconnected in the device management information when the connection instruction is the reconnection instruction.

Inventors

• Mori shizuto

Assignees

• 美的集团股份有限公司

Dates

Publication Date

20260508

Application Date

20250612

Priority Date

20241030

Claims (18)

1. 1. A home appliance control system includes a server device connected to a home appliance via a network to control the home appliance, and an application program executed by a computer of a terminal device connected to the server device via the network, The application program causes the computer to perform: a transmission step of transmitting, to the server apparatus, a connection instruction related to connection of the home appliance instructed by a user, device information related to the home appliance, and user identification information for identifying a user who uses the home appliance, The server device includes: a storage unit that stores device management information that associates the device information with the user identification information; a communication unit configured to receive the device information, the user identification information, and the connection instruction from the application program, A new registration unit that, when the connection instruction is an instruction to perform new registration of the home appliance, performs initialization processing of past information related to the home appliance of the newly registered object in the device management information, performs new registration of the home appliance of the newly registered object, and And a reconnection unit configured to execute, when the connection instruction is an instruction to reconnect the home device, a process of reconnecting the home device without executing an initialization process of past information related to the home device to be reconnected in the device management information.
2. 2. The control system of an electric home appliance according to claim 1, wherein, The communication unit transmits a confirmation signal for confirming whether or not the home appliance is connected to the home appliance at a constant time interval, and is capable of receiving a response signal from the home appliance for the confirmation signal, The server device is provided with: A determination unit configured to determine that the home appliance is on-line when the communication unit receives the response signal to the acknowledgement signal, and determine that the home appliance is off-line when the response signal is not received for any of the acknowledgement signals transmitted a predetermined number of times, When the home appliance is connected again, the home appliance transmits an offline notification indicating that the home appliance is offline to the server device, When the communication unit receives the offline notification from the home device, the determination unit determines that the home device is offline even before the transmission of the confirmation signal reaches the predetermined number of times.
3. 3. The home device control system of claim 2, wherein, When the determination unit determines that the home appliance is offline, the communication unit transmits an instruction to change the state of the home appliance to offline to the terminal device, The application program causes the computer to further perform: and a step of changing the state of the home appliance to offline when an instruction to change the state of the home appliance to offline is received.
4. 4. The home device control system of claim 3, wherein, The application program causes the computer to further perform: And a display step of displaying a reconnection button for the user to instruct reconnection on a display device of the terminal device together with a display of the home electric device when the state of the home electric device is offline.
5. 5. The control system of an electrical home appliance of claim 4, wherein, In the course of the application program in question, The display step does not display the reconnection button for displaying the home electric device which is connected to a network only when the home electric device is used by turning on a power supply.
6. 6. The home device control system of claim 3, wherein, In the application program, causing the computer to execute: A display step of displaying a list of the home appliances that are offline on a display device of the terminal device when the home appliances are reconnected, and And receiving a selection of the home appliance to be reconnected by the user from the list of the home appliances that are offline.
7. 7. The home device control system of claim 3, wherein, In the application program, causing the computer to execute: A display step of displaying a list of all home appliances including the online home appliance and the offline home appliance on the display device of the terminal device when the home appliances are reconnected, and displaying the offline home appliance together with the offline meaning display on the list of all home appliances, and And receiving a selection of the home appliance to be reconnected by the user from the list of the home appliances that are offline.
8. 8. A server device is connected to a home electric appliance through a network, and controls the home electric appliance, and comprises: a storage unit that stores device management information that associates device information related to the home appliance with user identification information for identifying a user who uses the home appliance; A communication unit configured to receive, from an application program executed by a computer of a terminal apparatus connected via a network, the device information, the user identification information, and a connection instruction related to connection of the home appliance indicated by a user; A new registration unit that, when the connection instruction is an instruction to perform new registration of the home appliance, performs initialization processing of past information related to the home appliance of the newly registered object in the device management information, performs new registration of the home appliance of the newly registered object, and And a reconnection unit configured to execute, when the connection instruction is an instruction to reconnect the home device, a process of reconnecting the home device without executing an initialization process of past information related to the home device to be reconnected in the device management information.
9. 9. The server device according to claim 8, wherein, The communication unit transmits a confirmation signal for confirming whether or not the home appliance is connected to the home appliance at a constant time interval, and is capable of receiving a response signal from the home appliance for the confirmation signal, The server device is provided with: A determination unit configured to determine that the home appliance is on-line when the communication unit receives the response signal to the acknowledgement signal, and determine that the home appliance is off-line when the response signal is not received for any of the acknowledgement signals transmitted a predetermined number of times, When the communication unit receives an offline notification indicating that the home appliance is offline from the home appliance when the connection with the application is disconnected, the determination unit determines that the home appliance is offline even before the transmission of the confirmation signal reaches the predetermined number of times.
10. 10. The server device according to claim 9, wherein, The communication unit transmits the state of the home appliance determined by the determination unit to the terminal device.
11. 11. The server device according to claim 10, wherein, When the determination unit determines that the home appliance is offline, the communication unit transmits an instruction to change the state of the home appliance to offline to the terminal device.
12. 12. A recording medium having recorded thereon an application program for execution by a computer of a terminal device connected to a server device for controlling home appliances via a network, The application program causes the computer to perform: a display step of displaying a first screen on a display device of the terminal device, the first screen being for a user to input a new registration instruction for newly registering the home appliance and a reconnection instruction for reconnecting the home appliance disconnected from the network and taken offline; an input step of receiving, by the user, either one of an input of the new registration instruction or an input of the reconnection instruction from the first screen, and And a transmission step of transmitting the new registration instruction to the server apparatus so that the server apparatus executes a process of newly registering the home appliance after executing an initialization process of information related to the home appliance when the new registration instruction is input by the user, and transmitting the reconnection instruction to the server apparatus so that the server apparatus executes a process of reconnecting the home appliance without executing an initialization process of information related to the home appliance when the reconnection instruction is input by the user.
13. 13. The recording medium of claim 12, wherein, The application program causes the computer to further perform: and a step of changing the state of the home appliance to offline when an instruction to change the state of the home appliance to offline is received from the server device.
14. 14. The recording medium of claim 12, wherein, And displaying a reconnection button for the user to instruct reconnection on a display device of the terminal device together with a display of the home electric device when the state of the home electric device is offline.
15. 15. The recording medium of claim 14, wherein, The display step does not display the reconnection button for displaying the home electric appliance which is connected to a network only when the home electric appliance is used by turning on a power supply.
16. 16. The recording medium of claim 13, wherein, The displaying step further displays a list of the home appliances that are offline on a display device of the terminal device when the home appliances are reconnected, The input step receives a user selection of the home appliance to be reconnected from the list of the home appliances that are offline.
17. 17. The recording medium of claim 13, wherein, The display step displays a list of all home appliances including the home appliances on-line and the home appliances off-line on the display device of the terminal device when the home appliances are reconnected, and displays the display of the home appliances off-line together with the display of the meaning of off-line on the list of all home appliances, The input step receives a user selection of the home appliance to be reconnected from the list of the home appliances that are offline.
18. 18. A home appliance control method is a home appliance control method executed by a home appliance control system including a server device connected to a home appliance via a network to control the home appliance, and an application program executed by a computer of a terminal device connected to the server device via the network, The application program causes the computer to perform: a transmission step of transmitting, to the server apparatus, a connection instruction related to connection of the home appliance instructed by a user, device information related to the home appliance, and user identification information for identifying a user who uses the home appliance, The server device is provided with: A storage unit that stores device management information in which the device information, the user identification information, and user identification information for identifying a user who uses the application program are associated with each other, The household appliance control method comprises the following steps: A step in which the server apparatus receives the device information, the user identification information, and the connection instruction from the application program; The server apparatus performs initialization processing of past information related to the home appliance of the newly registered object in the device management information when the connection instruction is an instruction to perform new registration of the home appliance, and performs new registration of the home appliance of the newly registered object, and And a step in which, when the connection instruction is an instruction to reconnect the home device, the server apparatus executes a process of reconnecting the home device without executing an initialization process of past information on the home device that is the reconnection target in the device management information.

Description

Household appliance control system, server device, recording medium, and household appliance control method Technical Field The embodiment of the invention relates to a home appliance control system, a server device, a recording medium and a home appliance control method. Background Conventionally, there is known a technology of remotely operating a home appliance by an application program in a home appliance control system including a plurality of home appliances such as an air conditioner and a refrigerator connected to a network such as the internet, a server device connected to the home appliances to control the home appliances, and an application program connected to the server device via the network and executed by a terminal device such as a smart phone. In such a technique, home appliances are registered on the server side, and are remotely operated on the application side. In such a conventional home appliance control system, the network connection to the home appliance may be disconnected for some reason. In such a case, in order to use the home appliance, it is necessary to connect again to the network. Prior art literature Patent literature Patent document 1 Japanese patent laid-open No. 2008-071092 Patent document 2 Japanese patent laid-open publication No. 2002-85886 In the related art, in an application program, as a user interface for connecting home electric appliances, only a single means of new registration is prepared. In the conventional home appliance control system, information about a registered home appliance and information about an application program using the home appliance are stored in association with each other in the server device, but when a home appliance is newly registered, it is assumed that the home appliance is used by a different user. Therefore, in the related art, in order to ensure security, the server apparatus resets the initialization process of establishing the association between the information related to the home appliance and the information related to the application even in the case where the information related to the registered home appliance has been registered. Therefore, in the related art, when a home appliance whose network is disconnected is reconnected, if a newly registered user interface is used, an initialization process is performed, and thus, there is a problem that a user again generates a troublesome job such as association between an application program and the home appliance, and the convenience of the user is deteriorated. Disclosure of Invention The present invention provides a home appliance control system, a server device, an application program, and a home appliance control method, which can improve user convenience when reconnecting a home appliance whose network is disconnected. Means for solving the problems A home appliance control system according to an embodiment includes a server device connected to a home appliance via a network to control the home appliance, and an application program for execution by a computer of a terminal device connected to the server device via a network, wherein the application program causes the computer to execute an initialization process for transmitting, to the server device, a connection instruction related to connection of the home appliance instructed by a user, device information related to the home appliance, and user identification information for identifying a user who uses the home appliance, the server device includes a storage unit for storing device management information in which the device information and the user identification information are associated, a communication unit for receiving, from the application program, the device information, the user identification information, and the connection instruction, and when the connection instruction is an instruction to newly register the home appliance, executing a past initialization process for storing information related to the home appliance of the newly registered object among the device management information, and a process for connecting, when the newly registered object is newly registered, and the connection instruction to the home appliance is not executed, the past connection instruction is executed, and the home appliance is newly connected to the newly registered object. In the home appliance control system, the communication unit transmits a confirmation signal for confirming whether or not the home appliance is connected to the home appliance at a constant time interval, and is capable of receiving a response signal from the home appliance with respect to the confirmation signal, and the server device includes a determination unit that determines that the home appliance is on-line when the communication unit receives the response signal with respect to the confirmation signal, determines that the home appliance is off-line when the response signal is not received for any of a predetermined number of times of transmis