Household appliances centralized control system

Abstract

The invention discloses a centralized control system for household appliances, which includes: household appliances, which have an MCU for performing the functions of the household appliances; at least two protocol centralized controllers, which are respectively connected to one UART bus of the MCU through a driving circuit, and a protocol set The controller is suitable for a communication protocol, and the centralized controllers of each protocol can query and control the status of household appliances; the centralized control system is configured to: set the priority of household appliances and centralized controllers of each protocol in advance; When the times of instructions sent by the controllers do not conflict, the household appliances respond to the instructions sent in chronological order; when the times of instructions sent by the centralized controllers of each protocol conflict, the household appliances respond to the instructions sent according to the order of priority. The present invention realizes the communication of different centralized control protocols with the MCU through one UART serial port connected to the MCU port on the household appliance side, which facilitates the centralized and differentiated management of the household appliances and improves user experience.

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technical field [0001] The invention relates to the technical field of centralized control of household appliances, in particular to a centralized control system of household appliances. Background technique [0002] Household appliances, such as central air conditioners, office building access control, etc., have a set of centralized control methods to monitor their own status, which is convenient for centralized management. However, with the demand for intelligence, they hope to be able to access third-party smart home devices for differentiated settings . [0003] For example, the central air-conditioning centralized control method has long adopted the HomeBus (ie, home bus system) communication method. This communication method is stable and reliable, and there is no need to consider polarity for grounding. machine to communicate. [0004] However, with people's demand for intelligent central air-conditioning products, third-party smart home devices can be connected to...

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Problems solved by technology

[0005] At present, the centralized control function of central air-conditioning products can only support one of the two, and cannot support two protocols at the same time, for example, either support the HLINK protocol of the HomeBus bus, or support the 485 protocol of the MODBUS bus

However, in practice, users sometimes require unified management of air conditioners through HomeBus centralized control to monitor the status of air conditioners in multiple bus systems, and at the same time require the air conditioners in each bus system or each air conditioner to be differentiated. It can be privatized and customized through third-party smart home devices or APP, which conflicts with the centralized control function on existing air-conditioning products and reduces user experience

[0006] In order to solve the above problems, multiple UART serial ports for communication with household appliances are needed. In this way, not only the resources of multiple MCU ports of household appliances are occupied, but also the MCU processes multiple centralized control commands at the same time, which cannot guarantee the operation stability of household appliances.

Or use a protocol converter that supports the coexistence of multiple protocols, but this method still needs to pass through multiple UART serial ports, and this solution focuses on the coexistence of multiple protocols, which is convenient for centralized management, but there are many inconveniences in the intermediate transfer communication protocol, resulting in increased costs

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