CN114884760A

CN114884760A - Networking method, networking display interface and computer readable storage medium

Info

Publication number: CN114884760A
Application number: CN202210303613.7A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 苏湘
Original assignee: Zhejiang Maojing Artificial Intelligence Technology Co ltd
Current assignee: Zhejiang Maojing Artificial Intelligence Technology Co ltd
Priority date: 2022-03-24
Filing date: 2022-03-24
Publication date: 2022-08-09

Abstract

The application discloses a networking method, a networking display interface and a computer readable storage medium. The method comprises the following steps: receiving first network access information from a first gateway device of a first network; joining a first network to become a first network node of the first network; receiving second network access information for a second network from the first gateway device; adding the second network by using the second network access information to form a dual-network node; acquiring gateway configuration information of the first network through a second network; according to the gateway configuration information, performing gateway configuration of the first network to become second gateway equipment of the first network; a scanning operation is performed by the second gateway device to obtain device information for unconfigured devices within its predetermined range that have not joined the first network. According to the method and the device, automatic networking of a plurality of unconfigured devices is achieved, the configuration process of a user for the plurality of devices is simplified, and the networking efficiency of the plurality of devices is greatly improved.

Description

Networking method, networking display interface and computer readable storage medium

Technical Field

The present application relates to the field of data processing technologies, and in particular, to a networking method, an electronic device, and a computer-readable storage medium.

Background

With the development of smart home technology, smart home products have changed from simple single product control to networking and control of multiple devices, so that users can conveniently use and control more and more appliances in the home. In recent years, smart home technology has also implemented networked smart home services by means of a network, so that smart home products can not only communicate with each other, exchange information, but also receive various instructions sent by a user through a terminal by connecting with each other. For example, a user may remotely issue a turn-on or turn-off command to a smart lamp or a smart socket product by means of a terminal, thereby implementing functions such as remote turn-on of a lamp or remote switching of an appliance. However, in the present phase, more and more home products with smart functions are available, and if a user wants to implement more convenient and more intelligent home appliance control, the user needs to manually configure each purchased smart home product so as to join the home network. Particularly, in recent years, in the smart home field, it has appeared that smart home products are connected to each other to achieve individual or group control, but each smart home product may be connected to the internet through a wired or wireless network to receive various information from a server and a remote instruction of a user.

Therefore, for the user, after purchasing the smart home product, especially when purchasing a plurality of smart home products, individual configuration is required according to the support degree of the smart home product to different networks, which greatly increases the usage burden of the user and reduces the usage experience.

Disclosure of Invention

The embodiment of the application provides a networking method, a networking display interface and a computer readable storage medium, so as to overcome the defects of complex networking mode and low efficiency in the prior art.

In order to achieve the above object, an embodiment of the present application provides a networking method, which is applied to an intelligent home system, where the intelligent home system includes a first gateway device that has joined a first network and a second network and at least one unconfigured device that has not joined the first network, and the networking method includes:

receiving first network access information from a first gateway device of a first network;

according to the first network access information, joining the first network to become a first network node of the first network;

receiving second network access information for a second network from the first gateway device;

joining the second network by using the second network access information to become a dual-network node;

acquiring gateway configuration information of the first network through the second network;

according to the gateway configuration information, performing gateway configuration of the first network to become second gateway equipment of the first network;

performing, by the second gateway device, a scanning operation to acquire device information of unconfigured devices that are within a predetermined range thereof and that have not joined the first network.

The embodiment of the present application further provides a networking method, which is applied to an intelligent home system, wherein the intelligent home system includes at least one unconfigured device that has joined a third network and has not joined a fourth network, and the networking method includes:

acquiring fourth network access information of a fourth network through the third network;

adding the fourth network according to the fourth network access information to become a fourth network node of the fourth network;

acquiring gateway configuration information of a fourth network through the third network;

according to the gateway configuration information, performing gateway configuration of the fourth network to become third gateway equipment of the fourth network;

performing, by the third gateway device, a scanning operation to obtain device information of an unconfigured device that has not joined the fourth network.

The embodiment of the present application further provides a networking display interface of an intelligent home system, where the intelligent home system includes a user terminal, a first gateway device that has joined a first network and a second network, and at least one unconfigured device that has not joined the first network, and the interface includes:

the target device selection area is used for displaying the device identification of the first gateway device and the device information of the unconfigured devices scanned by the first gateway device, and receiving the device information of the target device selected by the user from the unconfigured devices;

a networking status display area for displaying device information of devices joining the first network using the networking method according to any one of claims 1 to 4.

The embodiment of the present application further provides a networking display interface of an intelligent home system, where the intelligent home system includes at least one unconfigured device that has joined a third network and has not joined a fourth network, and the interface includes:

the target equipment selection area is used for displaying the equipment information of the unconfigured equipment and receiving the equipment information of the target equipment selected by the user in the unconfigured equipment;

a networking status display area for displaying device information of devices joining the fourth network using the networking method according to any one of claims 5 to 6.

An embodiment of the present application further provides an electronic device, including:

a memory for storing a program;

and the processor is used for operating the program stored in the memory, and the program executes the networking method provided by the embodiment of the application when running.

Embodiments of the present application further provide a computer-readable storage medium, on which a computer program executable by a processor is stored, where the program, when executed by the processor, implements the networking method provided in the embodiments of the present application.

The networking method, the electronic device and the computer-readable storage medium provided by the embodiments of the present application join a first network according to first network entry information received from a gateway device of the first network, receive, through the first network, entry information for a second network to join the second network, thereby becoming a dual network node, and then acquire, through the second network, gateway configuration information of the first network, thereby becoming a gateway device of the first network, and perform scanning by the gateway device, thereby acquiring device information of an unconfigured device within a predetermined range thereof, and therefore, after joining the first network and the second network through the gateway device of the first network, the unconfigured device can further become another gateway device of the first network, and further scan surrounding unconfigured devices as a new gateway device, thereby increasing the number of gateway devices of the first network, the scanning range of the non-configured equipment is gradually expanded, the automatic networking of a plurality of non-configured equipment in a larger range can be realized, the configuration process of a user for the plurality of equipment is simplified, and the networking efficiency of the plurality of equipment is greatly improved.

The foregoing description is only an overview of the technical solutions of the present application, and the present application can be implemented according to the content of the description in order to make the technical means of the present application more clearly understood, and the following detailed description of the present application is given in order to make the above and other objects, features, and advantages of the present application more clearly understandable.

Drawings

Various other advantages and benefits will become apparent to those of ordinary skill in the art upon reading the following detailed description of the preferred embodiments. The drawings are only for purposes of illustrating the preferred embodiments and are not to be construed as limiting the application. Also, like reference numerals are used to refer to like parts throughout the drawings. In the drawings:

fig. 1a is a schematic view of an application scenario of a networking scheme provided in an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 1b is a schematic diagram of a networking presentation interface provided in an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 2 is a flow chart of one embodiment of a networking method provided herein;

3 a-3 i are schematic diagrams of application examples of the networking method provided by the present application;

fig. 4 is a flowchart of another embodiment of a networking method provided by the present application;

fig. 5 is a schematic structural diagram of an embodiment of an electronic device provided in the present application.

Detailed Description

Exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure will be described in more detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings. While exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure are shown in the drawings, it should be understood that the present disclosure may be embodied in various forms and should not be limited to the embodiments set forth herein. Rather, these embodiments are provided so that this disclosure will be thorough and complete, and will fully convey the scope of the disclosure to those skilled in the art.

Example one

The scheme provided by the embodiment of the application can be applied to any system with networking capability, such as a server system comprising a chip with a network information processing function and related components, and the like. Fig. 1a is a schematic view of an application scenario of a networking scheme provided in an embodiment of the present application, and the scenario shown in fig. 1a is only one example in which the technical scheme of the present application is applicable.

The intelligent home product can automatically execute various operations for the user according to the instruction of the user, so that the user can really realize easy and simple intelligent home control in daily life or even work. In recent years, in particular, in the smart home technology, a networked smart home service is implemented by means of a network, for example, a plurality of smart devices may be controlled through one socket, or a user may control an electric appliance such as a refrigerator, a television, an air conditioner, etc. in a home by sending a voice command through one smart speaker.

Since the smart home product is changed from simple single product control to networking and control of a plurality of devices at present, a user can conveniently use and control more and more appliances in a home. Especially, the intelligent home technology also realizes networked intelligent home services by means of a network, so that the intelligent home products can not only communicate with each other and exchange information, but also receive various instructions sent by a user through a terminal by connecting with each other. For example, a user may remotely issue a turn-on or turn-off command to a smart lamp or a smart socket product by means of a terminal, thereby implementing functions such as remote turn-on of a lamp or remote switching of an appliance. However, in the present phase, more and more home products with smart functions are available, and if a user wants to implement more convenient and more intelligent home appliance control, the user needs to manually configure each purchased smart home product so as to join the home network.

In recent years, in the smart home field, it has appeared that smart home products are connected to each other to achieve individual or group control, but each smart home product may be connected to the internet through a wired or wireless network to receive various information and remote instructions of a user from a server.

For example, as shown in fig. 1a, fig. 1a is an example of an application scenario showing a networking scheme according to an embodiment of the present application, and in the scenario shown in fig. 1a, a smart home environment of a user is shown, in which a service for accessing the internet is provided by a wireless router as an internet gateway device. For example, a provider of smart home devices or a provider of smart home services may be provided with a cloud server on the internet and connected to the wireless router through the internet, so that devices in the user's home smart environment may access, for example, the cloud server on the internet through the wireless router. In addition, a mobile terminal of the user may also exist in the smart home environment, the mobile terminal may be a product such as a smart phone or a smart speaker, and the user may discover and connect the purchased smart home devices 1 to 6 by operating the smart phone or the smart speaker.

In the smart home products, since the smart home products currently support the bluetooth network and the wireless network protocol, when forming a network, a preconfigured smart gateway device is usually used to add an unconfigured product to the bluetooth network, and then transmit a wireless network configuration to the unconfigured product so as to add the unconfigured product to the wireless network, so that the unconfigured product can access the internet through the wireless gateway. However, in such a scheme, the networking operation needs to be performed by relying on a bluetooth gateway, such as a Mesh gateway, preset in the home of the user. Therefore, an ad hoc network scheme has been proposed in the prior art, which implements full-house coverage by a Mesh router under a wireless network protocol and uses a plurality of power network communication terminals as intermediate nodes covering the full house, so that although such a scheme can implement the node ad hoc network effect covering the full house, it is costly and burdens users with additional burden because a plurality of power network communication terminals are required to be prepared as relay nodes of the wireless network. In addition, a Mesh networking scheme based on a Zigbee (Zigbee) network protocol is also proposed in the prior art, but in the scheme, a separate Zigbee gateway device needs to be used to perform network configuration on each unconfigured device supporting the Zigbee protocol in the whole house, so that a user still needs to know a certain Zigbee network technology to be able to configure the Zigbee gateway device.

Thus, in the scenario shown in fig. 1a, the smart home system may comprise a first gateway device having joined a first network, e.g. a bluetooth Mesh network, and a second network, e.g. WiFi, and at least one unconfigured device not having joined a bluetooth Mesh network. In this embodiment of the application, the bluetooth Mesh network may be used as an intelligent network for connecting a mobile phone or an intelligent sound box with a plurality of smart home devices, and the

devices

1, 2, and 4 are smart sockets and may be used to control the on/off of the power supplied to the outside through the smart sockets, and the

devices

3, 5, and 6 are smart lighting devices and may control the on/off of the lights through commands. In the scenario shown in fig. 1a, the six devices may not be initially connected to any network, i.e. neither to the bluetooth Mesh network nor to the wireless router.

Thus, in the present embodiment, a state in which the devices 1 to 6 have not been connected to any network at the beginning may be referred to as an unconfigured state, i.e., all of the six devices are unconfigured devices at the beginning. And since the user's handset may have been configured by the user to connect to a wireless router and may support a bluetooth Mesh network. In other words, in the scenario shown in fig. 1a, the user's handset may act as a bluetooth Mesh gateway in a bluetooth Mesh network. Thus, the user can scan the surrounding devices through the handset. The device information broadcast by the peripheral devices 1-3 may be received, for example, by listening to a designated channel, thereby discovering the presence of unconfigured devices 1-3 around the handset as a bluetooth Mesh gateway. Then, the mobile phone may send, for example, Mesh network entry information to the device 1-3, so that the device 1-3 may join the bluetooth Mesh network using the Mesh network entry information, and thus the device 1-3 may change from an unconfigured device to a bluetooth Mesh node in the bluetooth Mesh network. At this time, the mobile phone or the smart speaker serving as the bluetooth Mesh gateway of the bluetooth Mesh network may transmit information, such as a network identifier (SSID) and a key, of the wireless network stored in the mobile phone or the smart speaker to the device 1-3 that has joined the bluetooth Mesh network through the bluetooth Mesh message, so that the device 1-3 may join the wireless network based on the received wireless network information, and may access the internet through the wireless router in fig. 1 a. The devices 1-3 thus become dual network nodes after joining the wireless network, i.e. nodes joining both the bluetooth network and the wireless network.

Further, in this embodiment of the application, a device having or opening a bluetooth Mesh gateway function in the devices 1 to 3 that become dual network nodes may further access the cloud server through the internet to obtain the Mesh gateway configuration information in the smart home network. For example, the device 2 in the devices 1 to 3 may open the Mesh gateway function thereof, so as to access the cloud server to request the cloud server to issue the Mesh gateway information of the bluetooth Mesh network. Therefore, after receiving the Mesh gateway information sent by the cloud server, the device 2 may further have a Mesh gateway capability using the Mesh network management information, so as to become a second Mesh gateway in the bluetooth Mesh network except for the mobile phone or the smart speaker. Therefore, the device 2 may then repeat the above steps as a Mesh gateway, i.e. may continue to scan surrounding unconfigured devices, and for example, when it is monitored that there is device information broadcasted by the unconfigured device 4-6 in the designated channel, the bluetooth Mesh networking information may be sent to the device 4-6 through the above steps, so that the device 4-6 may join the bluetooth Mesh network, and thus the device 4-6 may become a bluetooth Mesh node device. Furthermore, since the device 2 is already used as a gateway device in the bluetooth Mesh network, it can store wireless network information, and therefore, the information such as the network identifier and the password of the wireless network stored in the device 2 can be sent to the devices 4 to 6 through the bluetooth Mesh message, so that the devices 4 to 6 can use the information to join the wireless network, and can become dual-network node devices joining the bluetooth Mesh network and the wireless network.

Likewise, the devices 4-6, after becoming dual network node devices, wherein the

devices

4 and 5 capable of opening or having bluetooth Mesh gateway function can further access the cloud server through the internet, request gateway information of the bluetooth Mesh network from the cloud server, thereby, by configuring according to the bluetooth Mesh gateway information received from the cloud server to become the third and fourth Mesh gateway devices except the smart phone or smart speaker and the device 2 as the second Mesh gateway in the bluetooth Mesh network, and after becoming a gateway device, the device information of the unconfigured device can be obtained by similarly scanning the unconfigured devices around the gateway device, and adding the unconfigured devices into a Bluetooth Mesh network and/or a Wifi network similarly to the operation process to complete the networking of the intelligent household devices.

Therefore, in this way, newly discovered unconfigured devices can be repeatedly and iteratively distributed in the home smart network of the user to join the bluetooth Mesh network and the wireless network, and further become a new bluetooth Mesh gateway by issuing bluetooth Mesh gateway configuration information to the devices which are open or have gateway capability, and the unconfigured devices in the preset range around the new bluetooth Mesh gateway are scanned by the new bluetooth Mesh gateway, and the devices are added in the bluetooth Mesh network and/or the WiFi network to realize the networking of the smart home devices in the continuously expanded range.

In addition, in this embodiment of the present application, when the gateway device finds, through scanning, unconfigured devices within a predetermined range around the gateway device, before the networking scheme is executed on the unconfigured devices, the device information of the unconfigured devices obtained through scanning and the device identifiers of the corresponding gateway devices may be sent to the user terminal, so that the user may confirm or select the newly found unconfigured devices on the user terminal, and execute networking on the unconfigured devices determined or selected by the user by issuing a confirmation instruction or a selection instruction to the gateway device.

For example, fig. 1b is a schematic diagram of a networking presentation interface provided in the embodiment of the present application. As shown in fig. 1b, an embodiment of the present application may provide a networking presentation interface, which may be displayed on a user terminal of a user and may include a target device selection area and a networking status display area. The target device selection area may be configured to display a device identifier of the first gateway device that performs the scanning of the unconfigured devices and device information of the unconfigured devices scanned by the first gateway device, and may be further configured to receive device information of a target device selected by the user among the unconfigured devices. Specifically, as shown in fig. 1b, when the user performs scanning of peripheral unconfigured devices by using the smart phone as the first gateway device as described above, the networking presentation interface may be displayed on the user's mobile phone, and the devices 1-3 scanned by the user's mobile phone may be displayed in, for example, a target device selection area, so that the user may view the device information of the displayed unconfigured devices 1-3 in the selection area, and may confirm that, for example, the three devices are all purchased devices themselves and all need to be added to their smart home system. The user may issue a confirmation instruction by clicking, for example, a confirmation button in the target device selection area of the presentation interface, so as to perform networking processing on all the three scanned unconfigured devices to add to the smart home system. Or, the user may select one or more of the three devices, even all of the three devices, by clicking the three devices in the target device selection area of the interface, and click a confirmation button to send the scanned unconfigured devices as target devices to be added to the smart home system. For example, when a user views device information for devices 1-3 displayed in the target device selection area of the interface, it is found that device 3 is not the device that he or she purchased, but is an unconfigured device that is placed in his or her room, for example, that neighbor purchased, and that device should not be a device to be networked that is added to the user's smart home system. Therefore, in the embodiment of the application, the user may issue an instruction to perform networking processing on the two devices to add to the smart home system by selecting the other two unconfigured devices in the target device selection area.

Similarly, when devices 1 and 2 are networked as described above and device 2 also obtains the gateway configuration from the cloud server via the WiFi network as a composite gateway device, device 2 may further scan for unconfigured devices around it and may scan for devices 4-6, for example in the scenario shown in fig. 1 a. At this time, the device 2 may serve as a new gateway device to send the device identifier and the device information of the devices 4 to 6 scanned and found by the new gateway device to the user terminal of the user and display the device identifier and the device information of the devices 4 to 6 in the target device selection area, so that the user can know the new gateway device 2 and the new unconfigured devices scanned by the new gateway device 2 through the device identifier of the device 2 and the device information of the devices 4 to 6 displayed in the target device selection area. The user may thus proceed to select or confirm the displayed device 4-6 and issue instructions to the device 2 to perform networking on the target device selected by the user.

In addition, the networking display interface displayed on the user terminal may further include a networking status display area for displaying device information of the device joining the first network using the networking method. For example, after the user performs networking processing by selecting the devices 1 and 2 in the target device selection area as above, the devices 1 and 2 complete networking operation, and for example, the device 1 joins the first network and the second network, and the device 2 becomes a composite gateway device, so that the device 1 and the device 2 that have completed networking operation can be displayed in the networking status display area of the networking presentation interface of the user terminal of the user, and accordingly the display device 1 is a MW (Mesh and WiFi) flag, and a device 2 GW (Mesh gateway and WiFi) flag is displayed, so that the user can clearly know the situation of the currently networked device through the networking status display area.

Therefore, according to the networking method of the embodiment of the present application, by joining the first network according to the first network entry information received from the gateway device of the first network, receiving the entry information for the second network through the first network to join the second network, thereby becoming a dual network node, and then also acquiring the gateway configuration information of the first network through the second network, thereby becoming the gateway device of the first network, and performing scanning by the gateway device to acquire the device information of the unconfigured device within the predetermined range thereof, therefore, the unconfigured device can be further made to become another gateway device of the first network after joining the first network and the second network through the gateway device of the first network, and further scanning the surrounding unconfigured device as a new gateway device, thereby increasing the number of gateway devices of the first network, the scanning range of the non-configured equipment is gradually expanded, the automatic networking of a plurality of non-configured equipment in a larger range can be realized, the configuration process of a user for the plurality of equipment is simplified, and the networking efficiency of the plurality of equipment is greatly improved.

The above embodiments are illustrations of technical principles and exemplary application frameworks of the embodiments of the present application, and specific technical solutions of the embodiments of the present application are further described in detail below through a plurality of embodiments.

Example two

Fig. 2 is a flowchart of an embodiment of a networking method provided in the present application, and an execution subject of the method may be various terminal or server devices with network information processing capability, or may be a device or chip integrated on these devices. As shown in fig. 2, the networking method includes the following steps:

s201, receiving first network access information from a first gateway device of a first network.

In step S201, network entry information may be received from a first gateway device of a first network. In this embodiment, the method may be performed by an unconfigured device discovered by the first gateway device through scanning, and therefore, the first gateway device may be a first gateway device in the first network that the unconfigured device wants or needs to join, and the unconfigured device performing step S201 may be within a scannable range of the first gateway device.

S202, according to the first network access information, the first network is added into the first network so as to become a first network node of the first network.

In step S202, the first network may be joined according to the received first network entry information, for example, the first network may be a bluetooth Mesh network, so that in step S202, the bluetooth Mesh network may be joined according to the bluetooth Mesh network information received in step S201, so that in step S202, for example, an unconfigured device may become a first network node in the first network by joining the bluetooth Mesh network.

S203, receiving second network access information for a second network from the first gateway device.

In step S203, network entry information of the second network may be received from the first gateway device in step S201. For example, in a networking scenario of smart home devices, a smart phone or a smart speaker device, which is a gateway device of a bluetooth Mesh network, may store network information of wireless networks connected at the same time. For example, the smart phone may store information such as a network identifier connected to the wireless router and a corresponding password through user' S pre-configuration, and thus, in step S203, network access information for a second network, e.g., a wireless network, may be received from the first gateway device.

And S204, adding the second network by using the second network access information to form a double-network node.

In step S204, the second network may be joined using the second network entry information received in step S203. For example, in the case that the second network is a wireless network, network information such as a network identifier of the wireless network and a corresponding password may be received from the bluetooth Mesh gateway through the bluetooth Mesh message, so that the information may be used to join the wireless network in step S204, and thus the unconfigured device in step S201 may join the two networks, i.e., the bluetooth Mesh network and the wireless network, to form a dual-network node.

S205, acquiring gateway configuration information of the first network through the second network.

In step S205, in the case that the device that has become a dual-network node has or opens the gateway function of the first network, the device may further access, for example, a cloud server through the second network to obtain the bluetooth Mesh gateway configuration information of the smart home network.

S206, according to the gateway configuration information, performing gateway configuration of the first network to become a second gateway device of the first network.

In step S206, the gateway configuration information may be received from the cloud server through the second network in step S205 to perform configuration, so that the gateway function thereof may be further opened, i.e., become another gateway device in the first network. For example, in the case that the first network is a bluetooth Mesh network, the device that joins the second network to become a dual network node in step S204 may access the cloud server to request the cloud server to issue the Mesh gateway information of the bluetooth Mesh network. Therefore, after receiving the Mesh gateway information sent by the cloud server in step S205, the Mesh gateway information may be used to further open the Mesh gateway capability in step S206, so as to become a second Mesh gateway in the bluetooth Mesh network except for the mobile phone or the smart speaker.

S207, the second gateway device performs a scanning operation to obtain device information of the unconfigured device that is located within a predetermined range of the second gateway device and has not joined the first network.

In step S207, the device may further serve as a gateway device in the first network to expand the coverage of the first network. For example, it may continue to scan the surrounding unconfigured devices, and for example, when it is monitored that there is device information broadcasted by the unconfigured device in the designated channel, it may join the first network, i.e., the bluetooth Mesh network, by repeating steps S201 to S204 to send the bluetooth Mesh network entry information to the newly discovered unconfigured device. Furthermore, since the device becomes the gateway device in the first network, i.e. the bluetooth Mesh network, in step S206, the network information of the second network, e.g. the wireless network information, may be stored, so that the information, such as the network identifier and the password, of the wireless network stored in the device may be sent to the newly configured device through the bluetooth Mesh message, and the newly configured device joining the bluetooth Mesh network may join the wireless network by using the information, thereby becoming a dual-network node device joining the bluetooth Mesh network and the wireless network.

Likewise, after becoming a dual-network node device, a device capable of being opened or having a bluetooth Mesh gateway function may repeat steps S205-S206 to access the cloud server through the second network, request gateway information of the first network, for example, the bluetooth Mesh network, from the cloud server, and thereby may be configured according to the bluetooth Mesh gateway information received from the cloud server to become a third, fourth or more gateway devices in the first network.

Fig. 3a to 3i are schematic diagrams illustrating an application example of a networking method according to an embodiment of the present application. In this application example, a user may arrange a plurality of purchased smart home devices in a home, and create a bluetooth Mesh network of the home 1 through a bluetooth Mesh gateway device such as a mobile phone, and the bluetooth Mesh gateway may be connected to a wireless network router through a wireless network in order to access the internet. Therefore, in the case shown in fig. 3a, none of the plurality of smart home devices purchased by the user has been configured yet, and thus are all unconfigured devices, which may be denoted by "UN" in fig. 3 a-3 i. In particular, in the scenario shown in fig. 3a, the bluetooth coverage of the handset is limited, which by scanning can only discover the four unconfigured devices shown in fig. 3 b. Therefore, it is apparent that when a user purchases such a plurality of devices, if the devices are configured one by one according to the related art, the mobile phone needs to be moved to a rear position to discover other devices, and the configuration needs to be performed a plurality of times. In contrast, in the embodiment of the present application, as shown in fig. 3b, a handset as a gateway device of a first network may listen to device information of four devices broadcasted in a specified channel by scanning within its scanning range, and thus, for each of the four unconfigured devices, network entry information of the first network, for example, a bluetooth Mesh network, may be received from the handset in step S201, and the first network is joined by being configured according to the network entry information in step S202, so that in fig. 3b, the four unconfigured devices may thereby become a first network node, that is, denoted by "M" in fig. 3 b. Next, three of the four devices may receive the network entry information of the wireless network from this gateway device of the handset in step S203 because the second network may be supported, and may thus use the network entry information of the wireless network to connect to, for example, a wireless router to join the wireless network in step S204. Thus, as shown in fig. 3c, the three nodes become dual network nodes that have joined two networks, a first network, e.g., a bluetooth Mesh network, and a second network, e.g., a wireless network, and in fig. 3c, may be represented using "MW", while the remaining one node remains as the first network node M. Further, as shown in fig. 3d, of the three dual network nodes MW, the second device from the top then supports the gateway function of the first network, or it has or can turn on the gateway function, and therefore, the device can download the gateway configuration information of the "home 1" bluetooth Mesh network from, for example, a cloud server through the second network in step S205 and use the configuration information for configuration in S206, so that it can become the second gateway device in the "home 1" bluetooth Mesh network as shown in fig. 3d and is represented using "GW" in fig. 3 d.

Therefore, as described above, the scanning range of the first gateway device as a handset can only cover the four devices. Therefore, through the above-described process, a second gateway device GW can be further created among the four devices to provide a larger scanning range. For example, as shown in fig. 3d, the second gateway device may further initiate a scanning process to, for example, listen to device information sent by unconfigured devices in the designated channel to discover surrounding configurable devices. That is, in fig. 3d, the second gateway device GW may further discover four unconfigured devices around it by scanning. Thus for each of these four unconfigured devices two of the nodes are made dual network nodes MW by repeating the above steps S201-S206 and the other two nodes may open their gateway functions to be configured as third and fourth gateway devices, e.g. as shown in fig. 3f, the upper two nodes become dual network nodes MW and the lower two become two gateway devices GW.

Similarly, as shown in fig. 3f, the third and fourth gateway devices generated by the new configuration may continue to respectively discover three unconfigured devices and four unconfigured devices around by scanning within their scanning ranges. Note that as shown in fig. 3f, the four unconfigured devices discovered by the gateway device scan located on the right side of fig. 3f are outside the coverage of the wireless network, in other words, the four devices are not able to connect to a wireless router to join the wireless network.

Therefore, as shown in fig. 3g, the gateway device located on the right side of fig. 3g may join the first network, for example, the bluetooth Mesh network, by sending the network entry information of the first network to the four devices outside the coverage of the wireless network, thereby becoming the first network node M. The gateway device on the left side of fig. 3g may join the first network by sending the network access information of the first network, for example, the bluetooth Mesh network, to the three unconfigured devices scanned and acquired by the gateway device, and may further send the network access information of the wireless network to the device on the right side of fig. 3g among the three unconfigured devices, so that the gateway device joins the wireless network to form a dual network node MW, and the remaining two nodes remain as the first network node M because they do not support the wireless network.

Next, as shown in fig. 3h, the newly configured dual network node MW in fig. 3g may support the gateway function, so that the gateway configuration information of "home 1" may be obtained through the second network, e.g. the wireless network access server, so that it may be configured, e.g. in step S206, to become a new gateway device in the bluetooth Mesh network of "home 1".

Thus, as shown in fig. 3h, since the unconfigured device located at the lower left corner of fig. 3h is not scanned by the gateway device all the time due to its arrangement position, the newly generated gateway device located at the left side of fig. 3g in fig. 3g can join the unconfigured device to the network through the gateway device due to its close proximity to the unconfigured device.

As shown in fig. 3h, the gateway device may discover this unconfigured device in the lower left corner of fig. 3h by listening to the specified channel within its scanning range. Whereas the unconfigured device supports only the bluetooth Mesh network, the unconfigured device can join the first network of "home 1" by receiving the network access information of the bluetooth Mesh network from its neighboring gateway device in steps S201-S202, thereby becoming the first network node M, as shown in fig. 3 i.

EXAMPLE III

Fig. 4 is a flowchart of another embodiment of the networking method provided in the present application, and an execution subject of the method may be various terminal or server devices with network information processing capability, or may be a device or chip integrated on these devices. Compared with the networking method shown in fig. 2, the method shown in fig. 4 may be applied to, for example, a device that already has a mobile network communication capability, for example, a device that is built in with a communication capability that may pass through a fourth generation mobile communication network or a fifth generation mobile communication network, and therefore, as shown in fig. 4, the networking method provided by the embodiment of the present application may include the following steps:

s401, fourth network access information of a fourth network is obtained through the third network.

In step S401, since the execution subject of the method shown in fig. 4 may be an unconfigured device having the communication capability of the mobile communication network, in other words, in the networking method shown in fig. 4, the unconfigured device has actually been provided with the capability of accessing the internet through a third network such as the mobile communication network. Therefore, in step S401, network access information of the fourth network, for example, the bluetooth Mesh network, may be acquired from the cloud server through the third network.

And S402, joining the fourth network according to the fourth network access information to become a fourth network node of the fourth network.

In step S402, a fourth network may be joined according to the fourth network entry information received through the third network in step S401. For example, the fourth network may be a bluetooth Mesh network, so in step S402, the device may join the bluetooth Mesh network according to the bluetooth Mesh network information received in step S401, and thus in step S402, for example, the unconfigured device may become a fourth network node in the fourth network by joining the bluetooth Mesh network. In particular, in the embodiment of the present application, unlike the embodiment shown in fig. 2, after joining the fourth network according to the received fourth network access information in step S402, the dual-network node in the embodiment shown in fig. 2 is actually formed.

And S403, acquiring gateway configuration information of a fourth network through the third network.

In step S403, in the case that the device that has become a dual network node has or opens the gateway function of the fourth network, the device may further access, for example, a cloud server through a third network, for example, a mobile communication network, to acquire the bluetooth Mesh gateway configuration information of the smart home network.

S404, according to the gateway configuration information, performing gateway configuration of the fourth network to become a third gateway device of the fourth network.

In step S404, the configuration may be performed according to the gateway configuration information received from the cloud server through the third network in step S403, so that the gateway function thereof may be further opened, i.e., become the first gateway device in the third network. For example, in the case that the fourth network is a bluetooth Mesh network, the device that joins the fourth network to become a dual network node in step S402 may access the cloud server to request the cloud server to issue the Mesh gateway information of the bluetooth Mesh network. Therefore, in step S404, after receiving the Mesh gateway information sent by the cloud server, the Mesh gateway information may be used to further open the Mesh gateway capability, so as to become the first Mesh gateway in the bluetooth Mesh network.

S405, the third gateway device performs a scanning operation to obtain device information of the unconfigured device that has not joined the fourth network.

In step S405, the device may further scan the coverage of the third network as a gateway device in the third network. For example, it may continue to scan surrounding unconfigured devices without mobile communication network communication capability, and for example, when it is monitored that there is device information broadcast by unconfigured devices without mobile communication network communication capability in a designated channel, it may join the fourth network, that is, the bluetooth Mesh network, by repeatedly sending the bluetooth Mesh network entry information to the newly discovered unconfigured device. Furthermore, since no wireless network is present in the embodiment shown in fig. 3, an unconfigured device discovered and joined to the fourth network by the gateway device as such can only become a fourth network node joining the fourth network, e.g. a bluetooth Mesh network.

Example four

Fig. 5 is a schematic structural diagram of an embodiment of an electronic device provided in the present application. As shown in fig. 5, the electronic device includes a memory 51 and a processor 52.

The memory 51 stores programs. In addition to the above-described programs, the memory 51 may also be configured to store other various data to support operations on the electronic device. Examples of such data include instructions for any application or method operating on the electronic device, contact data, phonebook data, messages, pictures, videos, and so forth.

The memory 51 may be implemented by any type or combination of volatile or non-volatile memory devices, such as Static Random Access Memory (SRAM), electrically erasable programmable read-only memory (EEPROM), erasable programmable read-only memory (EPROM), programmable read-only memory (PROM), read-only memory (ROM), magnetic memory, flash memory, magnetic or optical disks.

The processor 52 is not limited to a processor (CPU), but may be a processing chip such as a Graphic Processing Unit (GPU), a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA), an embedded neural Network Processor (NPU), or an Artificial Intelligence (AI) chip. The processor 52 is coupled to the memory 51, and executes the program stored in the memory 51 to execute the networking method of the second or third embodiment.

Further, as shown in fig. 5, the electronic device may further include: communication components 53, power components 54, audio components 55, display 56, and other components. Only some of the components are schematically shown in fig. 5, and it is not meant that the electronic device comprises only the components shown in fig. 5.

The communication component 53 is configured to facilitate wired or wireless communication between the electronic device and other devices. The electronic device may access a wireless network based on a communication standard, such as WiFi, 3G, 4G, or 5G, or a combination thereof. In an exemplary embodiment, the communication component 53 receives a broadcast signal or broadcast related information from an external broadcast management system via a broadcast channel. In an exemplary embodiment, the communication component 53 further comprises a Near Field Communication (NFC) module to facilitate short-range communication. For example, the NFC module may be implemented based on Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology, infrared data association (IrDA) technology, Ultra Wideband (UWB) technology, Bluetooth (BT) technology, and other technologies.

A power supply component 54 provides power to the various components of the electronic device. The power components 54 may include a power management system, one or more power sources, and other components associated with generating, managing, and distributing power for an electronic device.

The audio component 55 is configured to output and/or input audio signals. For example, the audio component 55 includes a Microphone (MIC) configured to receive external audio signals when the electronic device is in an operational mode, such as a call mode, a recording mode, and a voice recognition mode. The received audio signal may further be stored in the memory 51 or transmitted via the communication component 53. In some embodiments, audio assembly 55 also includes a speaker for outputting audio signals.

The display 56 includes a screen, which may include a Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) and a Touch Panel (TP). If the screen includes a touch panel, the screen may be implemented as a touch screen to receive an input signal from a user. The touch panel includes one or more touch sensors to sense touch, slide, and gestures on the touch panel. The touch sensor may not only sense the boundary of a touch or slide action, but also detect the duration and pressure associated with the touch or slide operation.

Those of ordinary skill in the art will understand that: all or a portion of the steps of implementing the above-described method embodiments may be performed by hardware associated with program instructions. The program may be stored in a computer-readable storage medium. When executed, the program performs steps comprising the method embodiments described above; and the aforementioned storage medium includes: various media that can store program codes, such as ROM, RAM, magnetic or optical disks.

Finally, it should be noted that: the above embodiments are only used to illustrate the technical solution of the present invention, and not to limit the same; while the invention has been described in detail and with reference to the foregoing embodiments, it will be understood by those skilled in the art that: the technical solutions described in the foregoing embodiments may still be modified, or some or all of the technical features may be equivalently replaced; and the modifications or the substitutions do not make the essence of the corresponding technical solutions depart from the scope of the technical solutions of the embodiments of the present invention.

Claims

1. A networking method is applied to an intelligent home system, wherein the intelligent home system comprises a first gateway device which is added to a first network and a second network and at least one unconfigured device which is not added to the first network, and the networking method comprises the following steps:

2. The networking method according to claim 1, wherein the smart home system further includes at least one user terminal, and when the second gateway device acquires device information of at least one unconfigured device, the method further includes:

transmitting, by the second gateway device, the device information to the user terminal;

and receiving a networking instruction from the user terminal so as to send the first network access information to the at least one unconfigured device.

3. The networking method of claim 1, wherein the first network is a bluetooth mesh network and the second network is a WIFI network.

4. The networking method of claim 3, wherein the receiving second network entry information for a second network from the first gateway device comprises:

and sending the network identification and the key information of the WIFI network through the Bluetooth mesh network message.

5. A networking method is applied to an intelligent home system, wherein the intelligent home system comprises at least one unconfigured device which is added into a third network and is not added into a fourth network, and the networking method comprises the following steps:

6. The networking method according to claim 5, wherein the smart home system further includes at least one user terminal, and when the third gateway device acquires device information of at least one unconfigured device, the method further includes:

transmitting, by the third gateway device, the device information to the user terminal;

and receiving a networking instruction from the user terminal so as to send the fourth network access information to the at least one unconfigured device.

7. The networking method of claim 5,

the third network is a fourth generation mobile communication network or a fifth generation mobile communication network.

8. A networking presentation interface for a smart home system, the smart home system comprising a user terminal, a first gateway device that has joined a first network and a second network, and at least one unconfigured device that has not joined the first network, and the interface comprising:

a networking status display area for displaying device information of devices whose networking is completed using the networking method according to any one of claims 1 to 4.

9. A networking presentation interface for a smart home system, the smart home system including at least one unconfigured device that has joined a third network and has not joined a fourth network, and the interface comprising:

the target device selection area is used for displaying the device information of the unconfigured devices and receiving the device information of the target device selected by the user from the unconfigured devices;

a networking status display area for displaying device information of devices whose networking is completed using the networking method according to any one of claims 5 to 6.

10. A computer-readable storage medium, on which a computer program executable by a processor is stored, wherein the program, when executed by the processor, implements the networking method of any one of claims 1 to 7.