CONFIGURATION INTERFACE FOR A PROGRAMMABLE MULTIMEDIA CONTROLLER

• Main Authors: AVELAR, Duarte, M, TATZEL, David, W, MCKINLEY, David, JACOBSON, Arthur, A, SILVA, Michael, C, CIPOLLO, Nicholas, J, MADONNA, Robert, P
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; German
• Published: 13.12.2017
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING; ELECTRICITY; PHYSICS; TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHICCOMMUNICATION; WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS

In one embodiment, a configuration application executing on a tablet computer or smartphone presents a configuration user interface on a touch screen for configuring a home automation system of a structure. A plurality of components of the home automation system that have wireless capabilities are detected. The configuration application receives an indication of a zone of the structure within which each component is located, the indication provided by the user dragging a representation of each component to a location provided in the configuration user interface. Based on the indication of the zone of the structure in which each component is located and the type of each component, automatically generate one or more user interface screens for accessing and controlling the components in each zone, where the automatically generated user interface screens are displayable during use of the home automation system.