Patent ID: 8626178

Claim:
A method comprising: providing a home audio-visual system that is at least in part controlled through a mesh network, wherein the home audio-visual system produces at least two effects; controlling each of the at least two effects through respective separate mesh network nodes responsive to user initiated instructions; and adapting each of the separate mesh network nodes to receive the user initiated instructions through a channel management operation, and acknowledging a wake up call with a silent acknowledgement, in which the wake up call from a source node is sent to a node of the home audio-visual system by an intermediate node, and the source node detects transmission of the wake up call by the intermediate node to the home audio visual system without a specific acknowledgement message to the source node, wherein the home audio-visual system is intermittently powered and wherein the intermittently powered home audio-visual system is adapted to change from a sleep mode to an awake status upon receipt of the wake up call, to receive an instruction to initiate a full power mode, and to acknowledge the wake up call.