HOME APPLIANCE CONTROL THROUGH WEB/INTERNET

The present invention relates to a remote control system for a home appliance network and a method for operating the same. More particularly, the present invention relates to a remote control system for a home appliance network and a method forupdating information of the same, the system and method enabling a central portal server to manage a plurality of home servers by allowing a home server to transmit a key message containing an IP (Internet Protocol) address so that an existing IP address stored in a database of the central portal server can be updated to a new IP address when the home server, using a dynamic IP, is connected to the central portal server. Parallel port is a simple and inexpensive tool for building computer controlled devices and projects. The simplicity and ease of programming makes parallel port popular in electronics hobbyist world. The parallel port is often used in computer controlled robots, Atmel/PIC programmers, home automation, The lines in DB25 connector are divided into three groups, they are: Data lines (data bus) Control lines Status lines As the name refers, data is transferred over data lines. Control lines are used to control the peripheral, and of course, the peripheral returns status signals back to the computer through Status lines. These lines are connected to Data, Control And Status registers internally. As their names specify, Data register is connected to Data lines, Control register is connected to Control lines and Status register is connected to Status lines. (Here the word connection does not mean that there is some physical connection between data/control/status lines. The registers are virtually connected to the corresponding lines.) So, whatever you write to these registers will appear in the corresponding lines as voltages. Of course, you can measure it with a multimeter. And whatever you give to Parallel port as voltages can be read from these registers (with some restrictions). For example, if we write '1' to Data register, the line Data0 will be driven to +5v. Just like this, we can programmatically turn on and off any of the Data lines and Control lines
Features

*Control lamps, appliances, and wall switches with X10 home automation modules by PC or remote *Set up timed events and you'll never have to walk into a dark room again *User-friendly interface means anyone can master simple home automation

*Wireless so you'll never have to trip over extra wiring *ActiveHome even works when your computer is off

Figure 2 shows a block diagram of the full system. We have switches and home appliances that are to be controlled. The embedded hardware is then connected to your PC via serial communication running at 9600 8-n-1 configuration. The HA server is running on the PC with any operating system, with PC's IP configured. You can use a DNS server if you want access all over the Web/internetand if you are using it on LAN then you can have a fix IP within that domain. So using the telnet command with the ip address of the server you can connect to the server. Figure 3 and 4 shows the schematic diagram for home automation project as you can see, we are using LEDs to denote bulbs, tubes and Switches. As per the program, the tubes are connected at P1.0 and P1.1; Bulbs are connected at P1.2, P1.3 and P1.4; and switched are connected at P1.5, P1.6 and P1.7. The LCD (16x2 LCD) is connected at P2; and three switches which are used to read the messages i.e. P3.2 for read message, P3.3 for next message and P3.4 for Previous Message. Because of the lack of RAM we can only support maximum of three messages.

Figure 3: Control, Display and PC interface section

Figure 4: Appliance and Power Supply section. Following are the commands which are used in our project. COMMAND DESCRIPTION stat To get the status of all the appliances connected to the controller. tube To switch ON/OFF the tubes. Selecting any one out of two. Bulb

To switch ON/OFF the bulbs, selecting any one out of the three bulbs. swch To switch ON/OFF the switches connected to the controller, selecting anyone out of three switches.