A server-based environment for reporting a status of a security, monitoring and automation controller is provided. Detecting cessation of an always-on persistent network connection between the SMA controller and the server is also provided. Reporting the cessation of the network connection to an end user and defined others is further provided. A further aspect provides for automatically reporting an alarm event to a central station, the end user, and others, in the event the cessation of the network connection occurs while the SMA controller is armed and after a zone fault event, and not receiving a disarm notification prior to expiration of a preset entry delay.

Intelligent building control systems utilize sky information from a camera or cameras to facilitate control of building systems such as lighting, motorized window coverings, electrochromic glazings, HVAC systems, and so forth. Based on the sky information, interior lighting intensity and/or color temperature may be modified, for example in order to achieve a desired circadian effect for building occupants. In this manner, energy efficiency and occupant comfort and convenience are improved.

A load control system may comprise an electrical load control device and/or a computing device. The electrical load control device may control, for example, motorized window treatments (e.g., shades), lighting controls, and/or sensors (e.g., occupancy, radio window, daylight, etc.). For example, a load control device comprising a motorized window treatment may control the position of a covering material in the window treatment. The computing device may comprise a processor and/or a graphical user interface (GUI). The computing device may be a server and/or a user device, such as a wireless user device (e.g., a cellular phone, tablet, or laptop computer). The computing device may be configured to provide graphical representations that may be displayed on a GUI based on load control information.

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a storage device, for using a robotic device to manipulate a manual control of a device. In one aspect, the system includes a robotic device, a first device that is located at a property and that has a manual control, and a monitoring unit. The monitoring unit may include a network interface, a processor, and a storage device that includes instructions to cause the processor to perform operations. The operations may include determining an operating state of the first device, determining the state of the monitoring system, determining whether one or more of the manual controls associated with the first device should be manipulated to alter the operating state of the first device, and transmitting one or more instruction to the robotic device that instruct the robotic device to manipulate one or more manual controls that are associated the first device.

Methods and systems for automatically determining correspondences between communication ports of a networked device and encoders and decoders connected to those communication ports. In some embodiments, the networked device and the encoders and decoders are connected to a video communications network provided by a switch. The networked device can query the video communications network for information related to the encoders and decoders to determine and save the port-to-device correspondences. In some embodiments, the networked device can extract device information from video signals received at its input ports to map the input ports to respectively connected decoders. In similar fashion, the networked device may transmit or embed port-specific information from its output ports to respectively connected encoders. Then, the networked device can query the video communications network for the port-specific information received at the encoders to map the output ports to respectively connected encoders.

An Internet of Things (IoT) system is illustrated, which has a power supply device and an IoT device. The power supply device electrically connected to the IoT device provides power to the IoT device. The IoT device has a memory unit, a control unit and a networking unit. When the power device generates a surge configuration, the control unit executes a surge control command stored in the control unit after receiving the surge configuration. The surge control command drives the control unit selectively executes one of modes according to the surge configuration. The modes comprise a user mode and a reset mode. The present disclosure utilizes the surge configuration to restart and/or reset the IoT device, and thus the IoT device can be reset without installing a reset button.

A method of operating a home appliance includes generating raw data on the appliance, transmitting the raw data to a remote computing device, receiving a data analysis from the remote computing device, and implementing a responsive action based on the data analysis

A method of sharing smart home devices between applications may include receiving a request from a first application operating on a control device to share a smart home device that registered with the first application; generating an interface on the control device that displays one or more applications with which the smart home device can be shared; receiving a selection of a second application with which to share the smart home device; and sending information to the second smart home device to register the smart home device.

An acoustic sensor is positioned in an environment and configured to generate a data stream responsive to acoustic energy in the environment. A controller is configured to receive the data stream. The controller is further configured to analyze the data stream to determine ambient acoustic signals. The controller is further configured to generate an ambient acoustic template based on the determined ambient acoustic signals. The controller is further configured to apply the ambient acoustic template to the data stream so that the ambient acoustic signals are suppressed in the data stream. The controller is further configured to analyze the data stream after the ambient acoustic signals are suppressed in order to determine if the acoustic energy in the environment includes acoustic energy of human snoring. The controller is further configured to issue a control signal to a second controller in order to engage a home automation device.

An appliance is provided. The appliance includes a memory storing content, a communication interface, an outputter, and a processor configured to, based on identifying a predetermined event, control the outputter to output the content stored in the memory, and store first time information corresponding to an occurrence time of the predetermined event in the memory, transmit, to a user terminal through the communication interface, a first control signal requesting second time information corresponding to a time when a user was detected at the user terminal, receive the second time information from the user terminal, based on a difference between the first time information and the second time information being less than a threshold time, control the communication interface to transmit a second control signal that provides information corresponding to the content to the user terminal.