Patent ID: 9565746
Date: 2017-02-07
CPC Classifications: G08C,H04W,H05B

Claim:
1. A pairing method for use in a lighting system including at least one lighting device serving as a slave device and a radio remote controller serving as a master device to control the slave device, for causing the lighting device to store identification information of the radio remote controller, the method comprising: transmitting a pairing command repeatedly by the radio remote controller, the pairing command including the identification information of the radio remote controller; determining, by the lighting device, whether or not the lighting device is in an initial state at power on, the initial state including a condition in which identification information of any master device is not stored in the lighting device; when it is determined that the lighting device is in the initial state, storing the identification information included in the pairing command as the identification information of the master device in the lighting device when the paring command is received; and causing the lighting device in which the identification information of the master device is stored to operate according to a radio command including the identification information of the master device.