Home appliance control system, server device, application program, and home appliance control method

Abstract

To improve user convenience when reconnecting a home appliance that has been disconnected from a network. [Solution] In a home appliance control system according to an embodiment, an application program causes a computer to execute a step of transmitting a connection instruction for connecting a home appliance instructed by a user, device information for the home appliance, and user identification information to a server device, and the server device includes a communication unit that receives the device information, user identification information, and connection instruction from the application program, a new registration unit that, if the connection instruction is an instruction to newly register a home appliance, performs an initialization process of past information in the device management information for the home appliance to be newly registered and newly registers the home appliance to be newly registered, and a reconnection unit that, if the connection instruction is an instruction to reconnect the home appliance, performs a process to reconnect to the home appliance without performing an initialization process of past information in the device management information for the home appliance to be reconnected.