CN105025611B - control interface display method of wireless lamp - Google Patents

Abstract

A control interface display method for a wireless lamp is applied to a wireless lighting system. The wireless lighting system includes at least one lamp and an electronic device. The lamp communicates with the electronic device via wireless signals. The lamp includes a light source. The light source is controlled by a control parameter to change its light-emitting state. The method includes: transmitting a capture command from the electronic device to the lamp; after receiving the capture command, returning information corresponding to the control parameter to the electronic device, wherein the information includes items that the light source can be controlled; and displaying a corresponding control interface on the screen of the electronic device according to the received information. Thus, the electronic device automatically generates a control interface corresponding to the lamp, without the need for the user to manually set the control interface on the electronic device.

Description

Control interface display method of wireless lamps

technical field

The invention is related to the control of wireless lamps; in particular, it refers to a method for displaying the control interface of wireless lamps.

Background technique

With the advancement of technology, the lighting system has also evolved from wired control to wireless control. A general wireless lighting system includes a lamp and an electronic device. The lamp includes a light source. The electronic device transmits a control command to the wireless lamp through a wireless signal to control the lighting state of the light source. For different types of lamps, it is necessary to manually set the controllable items of the light source on the electronic device in advance to generate a corresponding control interface, for example, to control items such as on, off, or brightness adjustment. For example, when the light source is a single-color LED, the controllable items are on, off, and brightness adjustment; when the light source includes multiple light-color LEDs, the controllable items are on , Turn off and adjust the brightness of each LED.

However, whenever the controlled lamp is replaced with a different type of lamp, the controllable items of the lamp source must be set again on the electronic device to generate a new control interface. Or when the number of lamps in the wireless lighting system increases, it is also necessary to set items whose light source can be controlled for the newly added lamps, so as to generate a corresponding control interface. In this way, the design procedure of the control interface will be complicated, and the construction cost and maintenance cost of the wireless lighting system will be increased.

Contents of the invention

In view of this, the object of the present invention is to provide a control interface display method of a wireless lamp, which can automatically generate a control interface corresponding to the lamp.

In order to achieve the above object, the method for displaying the control interface of the wireless lamp provided by the present invention is applied to a wireless lighting system, the wireless lighting system includes at least one lamp and an electronic device, and the lamp communicates with the electronic device through wireless signals. The lamp includes a light source, the light source is controlled by a control parameter to change its luminous state, the electronic device has a screen, and the method for displaying the control interface includes the following steps: A. Sending a capture command from the electronic device to the lamp; B. After receiving the retrieval instruction, return a message corresponding to the control parameter to the electronic device, wherein the message includes items that the light source can be controlled; C. According to the received message, in the A corresponding control interface is displayed on the screen.

The effect of the present invention is that the electronic device automatically generates the control interface corresponding to the lamp, and the user does not need to manually set the control interface on the electronic device, which effectively simplifies the procedure for setting the control interface on the electronic device.

Description of drawings

In order to illustrate the present invention more clearly, the preferred embodiments are described in detail below in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, wherein:

Fig. 1 is a schematic diagram of a wireless lighting system according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram showing the automatically set images displayed on the screen of the electronic device in the above-mentioned preferred embodiment.

Fig. 3 is a flow chart of the control interface display method of the above-mentioned preferred embodiment.

FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram showing a representative image of a lamp displayed on a screen of an electronic device.

FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram showing the control interface of the lamp 20 displayed on the screen of the electronic device.

FIG. 6 is a schematic diagram showing the control interface of the lamp 30 displayed on the screen of the electronic device.

FIG. 7 is a schematic diagram showing the control interface of the lamp 40 displayed on the screen of the electronic device.

FIG. 8 is a schematic diagram showing the control interface of the lamp 50 displayed on the screen of the electronic device.

Fig. 9 is a schematic diagram of installation positions of lamps in an indoor space in another embodiment of the present invention.

Fig. 10 is a schematic diagram showing the arrangement position of the representative image of the lamp in the above embodiment on the screen.

Detailed ways

Please refer to FIG. 1, which is a wireless lighting system according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention, which includes an electronic device 10 and a plurality of lamps 20, 30, 40, 50, wherein the electronic device 10 has a screen 102 and a USB port (not shown), in this embodiment, the electronic device 10 is a smart phone, and the screen 102 is a touch screen. In practice, the electronic device 10 can also be a tablet computer, a notebook computer or other equipment.

The USB port of the electronic device 10 is connected with a Zigbee signal transceiver module 12, and the Zigbee signal transceiver module 12 is used to convert the USB signal transmitted by the electronic device 10 into a Zigbee signal for transmission or receive an external Zigbee signal and convert it into a USB signal for transmission to the electronic device 10. The data transmitted between the electronic device 10 and the lamps 20, 30, 40, 50 is based on the DALI (Digital Addressable Lighting Interface) communication standard. In practice, the Zigbee signal transceiver module can also be built in the electronic device.

Each of the lamps 20, 30, 40, 50 includes a Zigbee signal transceiver module 22, 32, 42, 52, a driving unit 24, 34, 44, 54 and a light source 26, 36, 46, 56, the Zigbee signal transceiver module 22, 32, 42, 52 is used to convert the Zigbee signal transmitted from the electronic device 10 and then transmit it to the drive unit 24, 34, 44, 54, and receive the drive unit 24, 34 , 44, 54 and convert the transmitted signal into Zigbee signal for transmission. Based on the DALI communication standard, the drive unit 24, 34, 44, 54 has a built-in exclusive address and control parameters for controlling the light source 26, 36, 46, 56, and the control parameter is used to control the light source 26, 36 , 46, and 56, depending on the form of different lamps, the aforementioned luminous state includes on, off or brightness ratio.

In this embodiment, the light source of the lamp 20 includes a light emitting diode 262, the light color of the light emitting diode 262 is white light, and the control parameters of the driving unit 24 are used to control the opening, closing and brightness ratio of the light emitting diode 262 . The light source of the lamp 30 includes a first light emitting diode 362 and a second light emitting diode 364, the light color of the first light emitting diode 362 is white light, the light color of the second light emitting diode 364 is yellow light, the driving unit 34 The control parameters are used to control the individual turn-on, turn-off and brightness ratio of the first and second light-emitting diodes 362 and 364 . The light source of the lamp 40 includes a third light emitting diode 462, a fourth light emitting diode 464 and a fifth light emitting diode 466, the light colors of which are red light, green light and blue light respectively, and the control parameters of the driving unit 44 are used The third, fourth, and fifth light-emitting diodes 462, 464, 466 are turned on, turned off, and the brightness ratio respectively. The light source 56 of the lamp 50 includes a fluorescent lamp 562 , and the control parameters of the driving unit 54 are used to control the fluorescent lamp 562 to be turned on and off.

The electronic device 10 is installed with an application program for the user to control the lamps 20 , 30 , 40 , 50 . The control interface display method of the wireless lamp of the present invention is implemented through the application program.

The application program defaults to an address range (for example, 063), and the built-in addresses of the drive units 24, 34, 44, 54 of the lamps 20, 30, 40, 50 are within the address range. After the electronic device 10 executes the application program, an automatically set image 601 (refer to FIG. 2 ) is displayed on the screen 102. After the user clicks the image 601, the control interface display method shown in FIG. 3 starts to be executed.

First, the electronic device 10 searches for all lamps within the address range. The electronic device 10 sequentially transmits an inquiry command from the USB port to the Zigbee signal transceiver module 12 according to the order of the address range from small to large, so as to send it to the lamps 20, 30, 40 whose addresses belong to the address range. , 50, and each of the Zigbee signal transceiver modules 22, 32, 42, 52 of the lamps 20, 30, 40, 50 receives the inquiry instruction, and transmits the inquiry instruction to the drive unit 24, 34, 44, 54 through the Zigbee signal transceiver modules 22, 32, 42, 52 return a response message to the electronic device 10, and the electronic device 10 records the addresses of the lamps 20, 30, 40, 50 that return the response message, so as to know the address Responsive light fixtures in range. For example, the address of the lamp 20 is "3", the address of the lamp 30 is "25", the address of the lamp 40 is "45", the address of the lamp 50 is "60", the electronic device 10 is sequenced by the address "0". "-"63" start to send the query command, when the sent address is "3", the lamp 20 returns a response message, and the electronic device 10 records that the address "3" has a response, and so on, so, the electronic device 10 It can be known that the lamps 20, 30, 40, and 50 corresponding to the addresses "3", "25", "45" and "60" are responding lamps.

Then, the electronic device 10 sends a capture command to the corresponding lamps 20, 30, 40, 50 according to the order of the recorded addresses, and the drive units 24, 34, 44, 54 After receiving the fetching command, return information corresponding to the control parameter to the Zigbee signal sending module 22, 32, 42, 52 of the lamp 20, 30, 40, 50 connected to the electronic device 10 for Zigbee signal sending Module, and then send back to the electronic device, wherein the information of the control parameters includes the controllable items of the light source 26, 36, 46, 56 (such as on, off or brightness ratio) and the light source 26, 36, 46, 56 the current state (for example, it is currently on or off and the current brightness ratio).

The application program generates on the screen of the electronic device 10 representative images 601-604 representing the recorded lamps 20, 30, 40, 50 corresponding to the addresses (refer to FIG. 4), and records each lamp 20, 30, 40 , 50 and the connection relationship of the information of the corresponding control parameters. After the user clicks each of the representative images, a corresponding control interface 6268 is displayed on the screen 102 of the electronic device 10 according to the information of the control parameters corresponding to each representative image 601604 (refer to FIGS. 5 and 8 ). Please refer to FIG. 5 , for the lamp 20 , the control interface 62 includes operation images 621 and 622 for turning on and off the light source 26 and an operation image 623 for adjusting the brightness of the LED 262 .

Please refer to FIG. 6, for the lamp 30, the control interface 64 includes operation images 641, 642 for turning on and off the light source, and operation images 643 for adjusting the brightness of the first LED 362 and the brightness of the second LED 364. 644 , for the user to individually adjust the brightness, so as to adjust the color tone of the light source 36 .

Please refer to FIG. 7, for the lamp 40, the control interface includes operation images 661, 662 for turning on and off the light source 46 and an operation image 663 for respectively adjusting the brightness of the third, fourth, and fifth LEDs in the light source , 664, 665. Similarly, the user can individually adjust the brightness to adjust the color tone of the light source 46 .

Please refer to FIG. 8 , for the lamp 50 , the control interface 68 includes operation images 681 and 682 for turning on and off the light source.

After the control interface is generated, the user clicks the operation image on the screen 102, and the electronic device 10 generates corresponding control commands, which are transmitted to the corresponding lamps 20, 30, 40, 50 through Zigbee wireless signals to control the lamp sources 26, 36, 46, 56 light states. In practice, if the wireless lighting system has only one light fixture, the control interface of the light fixture can be directly displayed without displaying a representative image.

In order for the user to clearly identify the relationship between the representative image and the lamps, in one embodiment, the Zigbee signal transceiver module 12 connected to the electronic device 10 can further transmit corresponding When controlling the information of the parameter, the strength of the Zigbee signal is detected to correspond to the relative distance of each of the lamps 20 , 30 , 40 , 50 . When displaying the representative images 602-605 of the lamps 20, 30, 40, 50, the configuration positions of the representative images 602605 on the screen 102 are determined according to the relative distances of the lamps 20, 30, 40, 50. produce. For example, please cooperate with FIG. 9 and FIG. 10, the lamps 20, 30, 40, 50 are respectively set in different positions in an indoor space S, therefore, the Zigbee signal transceiver module 12 of the electronic device 10 receives signals from The signal strengths of the lamps 20 , 30 , 40 , 50 are also different, and the relative positions of the representative images can be displayed on the screen 102 of the electronic device 10 by using the difference in signal strength.

In the foregoing embodiments, the lamps and electronic devices are connected through Zigbee wireless signals. Zigbee communication has the advantages of low power consumption, low cost, low complexity of construction, reliability and safety. In practice, other wireless communication methods can also be connected, such as Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, RF and other technologies.

To sum up, through the control interface display method of the wireless lamp of the present invention, when the user controls the lamp with the electronic device, the electronic device can automatically capture the address of each lamp and the items that can be controlled by each lamp, avoiding the need for the user to The inconvenience of setting the address of each lamp and the controllable items of each lamp effectively simplifies the procedure of setting the control interface on the electronic device.

The above descriptions are only preferred feasible embodiments of the present invention, and all equivalent changes made by applying the description of the present invention and the scope of the patent application should be included in the scope of the claims of the present invention.

Claims (8)

1. A method for displaying a control interface of a wireless lamp, applied to a wireless lighting system, the wireless lighting system includes at least one lamp and an electronic device, the lamp communicates with the electronic device through wireless signals, the lamp includes a light source, The light source is controlled by a control parameter to change its luminous state, the electronic device has a screen, and the control interface display method includes the following steps: A. Send a capture command from the electronic device to the lamp; B. After receiving the retrieval command, return information corresponding to the control parameter to the electronic device, wherein the information includes the controllable items of the light source; and C. Display a corresponding control interface on the screen according to the received information ; Wherein the number of the at least one lamp is multiple, step C is to display a representative image representing each of the lamp sources on the screen, and after clicking a specific representative image, according to the information of the lamp corresponding to the representative image Display the corresponding control interface; The steps between step B and step C include detecting the signal strength returned by each lamp, and corresponding to the relative distance of each lamp according to the signal strength, and the arrangement position of the representative image on the screen in step C is based on the position of the lamp generated relative to the distance. 2. The method for displaying the control interface of a wireless lamp as claimed in claim 1, wherein in step B, the controllable items of the light source include on and off, and in step C, the control interface includes the operation of turning on and off the light source image. 3. The method for displaying the control interface of a wireless lamp as claimed in claim 1, wherein in step B, the controllable items of the light source include brightness ratio, and in step C, the control interface includes an operation image for adjusting the brightness of the light source . 4. The method for displaying the control interface of a wireless lamp as claimed in claim 1, wherein the light source includes a plurality of light-emitting diodes, and the light colors of each light-emitting diode are different, and the controllable items of the light source in step B include: The brightness ratio of each LED; in step C, the control interface includes an operation image for adjusting the brightness of each LED. 5. The control interface display method of a wireless lamp as claimed in claim 1, wherein the lamp communicates with the electronic device through Zigbee wireless signals. 6. The display method of the control interface of the wireless lamp as claimed in claim 5, wherein the retrieval command in step A and the information in step C are transmitted and received through a Zigbee signal transceiver module connected to the electronic device. 7. The method for displaying a control interface of a wireless lamp as claimed in claim 1, wherein each lamp is built with a dedicated address, the electronic device is built with an address range, and the address of the lamp is within the address range; Before step A contains: sending an inquiry command from the electronic device to each of the lamps whose addresses belong to the address range, and each of the lamps returns a response message to the electronic device after receiving the inquiry command; Record the address of the fixture that returned the response message; In step A, the capture command is sent to each of the lamps according to the recorded address; in step C, the representative image displayed corresponds to the recorded lamp corresponding to each of the addresses. 8. The method for displaying the control interface of a wireless lamp as claimed in claim 1, wherein the wireless signal between the lamp and the electronic device is based on the DALI communication standard.