Patent ID: 8742686
Filing Date: 2014-06-03
Classification: H05B

Abstract:
1. A method for executing a user specified rule to control lighting effects in a lighting network comprising an interface module in communication with one or more lighting control modules, the method comprising: (a) receiving, by an interface module, a rule for controlling a lighting network, the interface module in communication with one or more lighting control modules of the lighting network, the interface module comprising one or more ports to receive data as input by changing a state of a port of the one or more ports from transmit mode to listen mode, the rule comprising a user identified input specifying a value to be detected in data of a data stream to be received by at least one port of the one or more ports of the interface module and a user specified lighting effect to occur via the one or more lighting control modules responsive to the interface module receiving the user identified input, the value to be used as input to the rule upon detection; (b) detecting, by the interface module from the stream of data received via the at least one port, receipt of the value specified by the user identified input; and (c) executing, by the interface module responsive to the detection of receipt of the value specified by the user identified input, the rule to trigger the user specified lighting effect via the one or more lighting control modules.