CN112021935A

CN112021935A - Household appliance and control method, control device, terminal and storage medium thereof

Info

Publication number: CN112021935A
Application number: CN202010894478.9A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 廖谦
Original assignee: Foshan Shunde Midea Water Dispenser Manufacturing Co Ltd
Current assignee: Foshan Shunde Midea Water Dispenser Manufacturing Co Ltd
Priority date: 2020-08-31
Filing date: 2020-08-31
Publication date: 2020-12-04

Abstract

The application provides household electrical appliance equipment, a control method, a control device, a terminal and a storage medium thereof. The control method of the household appliance comprises the following steps: acquiring the water outlet quantity of the household appliance; determining the current water quantity of the household appliance according to the water outlet quantity and the pre-stored total water quantity; and generating prompt information based on the current water volume being less than or equal to the water volume threshold. Through the embodiment of the application, a user can know the water quantity condition of the household appliance, active reminding when the household appliance is lack of water or has no water is realized, and timely water replenishing or water changing is ensured.

Description

Household appliance and control method, control device, terminal and storage medium thereof

Technical Field

The present application relates to the field of home appliance technologies, and in particular, to a control method and a control apparatus for a home appliance, a terminal, and a computer-readable storage medium.

Background

For a lower cabinet type water dispenser, a drinking water bucket is generally installed in a closed cabinet body in a lower placing mode and works in a water pumping mode through a water pump, so that a user cannot know the change of the water quantity in the drinking water bucket.

Disclosure of Invention

The application mainly aims to provide a control method and a control device of household appliances, the household appliances, a terminal and a computer readable storage medium, and aims to solve the technical problem that the existing user cannot know the change of the water amount in a drinking water bucket.

In order to achieve the above object, the present application provides a method for controlling a home appliance, including: acquiring the water outlet quantity of the household appliance; determining the current water quantity of the household appliance according to the water outlet quantity and the pre-stored total water quantity; and generating prompt information based on the current water volume being less than or equal to the water volume threshold.

Further, the method for controlling the home appliance further includes: and displaying the current water quantity of the household appliance.

Further, before the step of obtaining the outlet water volume of the household electrical appliance, the method further comprises: acquiring a water quantity setting signal; in response to the water quantity setting signal, the total water quantity is stored.

Further, the method for controlling the home appliance further includes: acquiring a water quantity reset signal; and updating the displayed current water amount to a total water amount in response to the water amount reset signal.

The present application further provides a control device for a home appliance, including: a memory storing a computer program; and a processor for implementing the control method of the household appliance when the processor executes the computer program.

The present application further provides a home appliance, comprising: a memory storing a computer program; and a processor for implementing the control method of the household appliance when the processor executes the computer program.

Further, the home appliance further includes: flow rate detection means configured to detect a flow rate of water.

Further, the home appliance further includes: a prompting device configured to issue a prompting message.

The present application further proposes a terminal, comprising: a memory storing a computer program; and a processor for implementing the control method of the household appliance when the processor executes the computer program.

The present application also proposes a computer-readable storage medium, on which a computer program is stored, which, when executed by a processor, implements the control method of the aforementioned household appliance.

In the technical scheme, the water outlet amount of the household appliance during water outlet each time is recorded, the total water outlet amount is obtained, the difference is made between the total water amount (namely the water amount of the household appliance when the household appliance is full) of the pre-stored household appliance and the total water outlet amount of the household appliance, and the current water amount of the household appliance, namely the residual water amount of the household appliance is obtained. And further, when the current water volume is less than or equal to the water volume threshold, generating and sending out prompt information. The convenience of customers knows the water yield condition of household electrical appliances, realizes the initiative warning when household electrical appliances lack water or have no water, ensures to replenish water or change water in time.

Drawings

In order to more clearly illustrate the embodiments of the present application or the technical solutions in the prior art, the drawings used in the description of the embodiments or the prior art will be briefly described below, it is obvious that the drawings in the following description are only some embodiments of the present application, and for those skilled in the art, other drawings can be obtained according to the structures shown in the drawings without creative efforts.

Fig. 1 is a flow chart illustrating a method for controlling a home appliance according to a first embodiment of the present application;

fig. 2 is a flowchart illustrating a method for controlling a home device according to a second embodiment of the present application;

fig. 3 is a flowchart illustrating a method for controlling a home appliance according to a third embodiment of the present application;

fig. 4 is a schematic diagram of a control apparatus of a home appliance according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 5 shows one of the schematic diagrams of a home device of an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 6 shows a second schematic diagram of a home device according to an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 7 shows a schematic diagram of a terminal of an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 8 shows a schematic diagram of a control system of an embodiment of the present application.

The implementation, functional features and advantages of the objects of the present invention will be further explained with reference to the accompanying drawings.

Detailed Description

The technical solutions in the embodiments of the present application will be described clearly and completely with reference to the drawings in the embodiments of the present application, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are only a part of the embodiments of the present application, and not all of the embodiments. All other embodiments, which can be derived by a person skilled in the art from the embodiments given herein without making any creative effort, shall fall within the protection scope of the present application.

It should be noted that all the directional indications (such as up, down, left, right, front, and rear … …) in the embodiment of the present application are only used to explain the relative position relationship between the components, the movement situation, and the like in a specific posture (as shown in the drawing), and if the specific posture is changed, the directional indication is changed accordingly.

In addition, descriptions in this application as to "first", "second", etc. are for descriptive purposes only and are not to be construed as indicating or implying relative importance or implicit to the number of technical features indicated. Thus, a feature defined as "first" or "second" may explicitly or implicitly include at least one such feature. In the description of the present application, "plurality" means at least two, e.g., two, three, etc., unless specifically limited otherwise.

In this application, unless expressly stated or limited otherwise, the terms "connected," "secured," and the like are to be construed broadly, and for example, "secured" may be a fixed connection, a removable connection, or an integral part; can be mechanically or electrically connected; they may be directly connected or indirectly connected through intervening media, or they may be connected internally or in any other suitable relationship, unless expressly stated otherwise. The specific meaning of the above terms in the present application can be understood by those of ordinary skill in the art as appropriate.

In addition, technical solutions between the various embodiments of the present application may be combined with each other, but it must be based on the realization of the technical solutions by a person skilled in the art, and when the technical solutions are contradictory or cannot be realized, such a combination of technical solutions should be considered to be absent and not within the protection scope of the present application.

In an embodiment of the first aspect of the present application, a method for controlling a home appliance is provided, and the method for controlling a home appliance is described in detail by the following embodiments.

First embodiment, fig. 1 is a flowchart illustrating a method for controlling a home appliance according to a first embodiment of the present application. Wherein, the method comprises the following steps:

step 102, acquiring the effluent quantity of the household appliance;

104, determining the current water quantity of the household appliance according to the water outlet quantity and the pre-stored total water quantity;

and 106, generating prompt information based on the fact that the current water amount is smaller than or equal to the water amount threshold value.

In this embodiment, the amount of outlet water of the household appliance during each water outlet is recorded, the total amount of outlet water is obtained, and the difference between the total amount of outlet water of the household appliance (i.e., the amount of outlet water when the household appliance is full) and the total amount of outlet water of the household appliance is obtained, so as to obtain the current amount of outlet water of the household appliance, i.e., the remaining amount of outlet water of the household appliance. And further, when the current water volume is less than or equal to the water volume threshold, generating and sending out prompt information. Through the embodiment of the application, a user can know the water quantity condition of the household appliance, active reminding when the household appliance is lack of water or has no water is realized, and timely water replenishing or water changing is ensured.

In this embodiment, the current water volume of the household electrical appliance is displayed, so that the user can more intuitively know the current water volume condition of the household electrical appliance to judge whether water is required to be supplemented or changed.

In one embodiment, the home appliance is used in the control method of the home appliance, that is, the execution subject of the control method of the home appliance is the home appliance. The household electrical appliance can detect the water flow through the flow detection device, further determine the water outlet amount, calculate the current water amount, display the current water amount and prompt when the current water amount is insufficient. The prompting modes comprise sound prompting, lamp tube prompting, character prompting, information pushing prompting and the like.

It can be understood that after the household electrical appliance detects the water flow through the flow detection device, the household electrical appliance can also send the water flow to the server, and the server calculates the current water volume of the household electrical appliance according to the water flow and then returns the current water volume to the household electrical appliance.

In another embodiment, the control method of the home appliance is applied to the terminal, that is, the main body of execution of the control method of the home appliance is the terminal. The water flow is detected by a flow detection device of the household appliance, and the outlet water flow is sent to the terminal. The terminal obtains the water outlet amount of the household appliance, calculates the current water amount of the household appliance, displays the current water amount, and prompts when the current water amount is insufficient, so that the requirement that a user can know the residual water amount of the household appliance when the user is not on the spot can be met, and the water change can be arranged in advance. The prompting modes comprise voice prompting, lamp tube prompting, character prompting and the like.

It can be understood that after the water flow is detected by the flow detection device of the household appliance, the household appliance can also send the effluent water flow to the server, and the server calculates the current water volume of the household appliance according to the effluent water volume and then sends the current water volume to the terminal.

Further, the step of determining the current water volume of the household appliance according to the water outlet volume and the pre-stored total water volume specifically comprises: calculating a first current water quantity according to the water outlet quantity and the pre-stored total water quantity; acquiring the current weight of the barreled water of the household appliance, and calculating a second current water amount according to the current weight; and determining the current water quantity of the household appliance according to the first current water quantity and the second current water quantity. For example, the average value of the first current water amount and the second current water amount may be used as the final current water amount, so as to improve the accuracy of obtaining the current water amount of the household appliance.

In some embodiments, the third current water amount of the household appliance may be directly detected by using the ultrasonic detection device. Furthermore, the average value of the first current water volume calculated through the water outlet volume and the third current water volume detected by the ultrasonic detection device is used as the final current water volume, so that the current water volume acquisition accuracy of the household appliance is improved.

Second embodiment, fig. 2 is a flowchart illustrating a method for controlling a home appliance according to a second embodiment of the present application. Wherein, the method comprises the following steps:

step 202, acquiring a water quantity setting signal;

step 204, responding to the water quantity setting signal, and storing the total water quantity;

step 206, acquiring the effluent amount of the household appliance;

208, determining the current water quantity of the household appliance according to the water outlet quantity and the pre-stored total water quantity;

and step 210, generating prompt information based on the fact that the current water amount is less than or equal to the water amount threshold value.

In this embodiment, the user can set the total water volume of the household appliance, thereby achieving the purpose of automatically acquiring the residual water volume of the household appliance. It should be noted that the total water amount may be set after water is replenished or changed every time, or may be set once when the household electrical appliance is used for the first time. For example, the household appliance is a water dispenser, the specification of a bucket applicable to the water dispenser is fixed, for example, the water dispenser can only be provided with 18.9 liters of barreled water, and the total water volume of the household appliance can be set to be 18.9 liters at one time when the bucket is used for the first time. If the specification of the bucket applicable to the water dispenser is not fixed, for example, 18.9 liters of barreled water can be installed in the water dispenser, and 11.3 liters of barreled water can also be installed in the water dispenser, the total water volume can be set when the bucket is replaced every time.

In one embodiment, the home appliance is used as a control method of the home appliance, that is, the execution subject of the control method of the home appliance is the home appliance, and the user can set the total water amount on the home appliance, for example, input the total water amount by means of a key.

In another embodiment, the terminal of the control method of the home appliance is used, that is, the main execution body of the control method of the home appliance is the terminal, and the user can set the total water amount on an APP (Application program) of the terminal.

In a third embodiment, fig. 3 is a flowchart illustrating a method for controlling a home appliance according to a third embodiment of the present application. Wherein, the method comprises the following steps:

step 302, acquiring the effluent amount of the household appliance;

step 304, determining the current water quantity of the household appliance according to the water outlet quantity and the pre-stored total water quantity, and displaying the current water quantity;

step 306, generating prompt information based on the fact that the current water amount is smaller than or equal to the water amount threshold;

step 308, acquiring a water quantity reset signal;

and step 310, responding to the water quantity resetting signal, and updating the displayed current water quantity to the total water quantity.

In this embodiment, after the household electrical appliance is refilled or replaced each time, the user needs to perform a water volume resetting operation to indicate that the household electrical appliance is full of water or that the household electrical appliance is currently replaced by a new bucket of water, and at this time, the remaining water volume is a sufficient number of liters, so as to perform a new round of remaining water volume monitoring.

In one embodiment, the home appliance is used as the control method of the home appliance, that is, the execution subject of the control method of the home appliance is the home appliance, and the user can perform the operation of resetting the water amount on the home appliance, for example, by means of a key.

In another embodiment, the terminal of the control method of the home appliance is used, that is, the main body of the control method of the home appliance is the terminal, and the user can perform the operation of water volume reset on an APP (Application program) of the terminal.

In an embodiment of the second aspect of the present application, a control apparatus 400 of a home appliance is provided, and fig. 4 shows a schematic diagram of the control apparatus 400 of the home appliance according to an embodiment of the present application. The control device 400 of the home appliance includes:

a memory 402, the memory 402 storing a computer program;

and a processor 404, wherein the processor 404 implements the control method of the home appliance as described above when the processor 404 executes the computer program.

In the control device 400 of a home appliance provided in the present application, the steps of the method for controlling a home appliance according to any one of the embodiments described above are implemented when the computer program is executed by the processor 404, and therefore the control device 400 of a home appliance includes all the advantageous effects of the method for controlling a home appliance according to any one of the embodiments described above.

Wherein the memory 402 and the processor 404 may be connected by a bus or other means. The Processor 404 may include one or more Processing units, and the Processor 404 may be a Central Processing Unit (CPU), a Digital Signal Processor (DSP), an Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC), a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA), or the like.

In an embodiment of the third aspect of the present application, a home device 500 is provided, and fig. 5 shows a schematic diagram of the home device 500 according to an embodiment of the present application. Wherein, this household electrical appliances 500 includes:

a memory 502, the memory 502 storing a computer program;

and a processor 504, wherein the processor 504 implements the control method of the home appliance when executing the computer program.

In the home device 500 provided by the present application, when executed by the processor 504, the computer program implements the steps of the method for controlling a home device according to any of the embodiments described above, so that the home device 500 includes all the advantageous effects of the method for controlling a home device according to any of the embodiments described above.

Wherein the memory 502 and the processor 504 may be connected by a bus or other means. The processor 504 may include one or more processing units, and the processor 504 may be a central processing unit, a digital signal processor, an application specific integrated circuit, a field programmable gate array, or the like.

In some embodiments, the home device 500 may be a water dispenser, a water purifier, or the like.

Further, as shown in fig. 6, the home device 500 further includes: a flow detection device 506, the flow detection device 506 being configured to detect a flow of water. Further, the processor 504 calculates the amount of outlet water based on the amount of outlet water.

Further, as shown in fig. 6, the home device 500 further includes: a prompting device 508, the prompting device 508 configured to issue a prompting message.

The prompting device 508 may emit voice prompt information, text prompt information, light prompt information, and the like.

Further, as shown in fig. 6, the home device 500 further includes: a communication device 510, wherein the communication device 510 is configured to send the prompt message to the terminal. This terminal can be user terminal for the user can in time know the less information of household electrical appliances residual water volume, thereby arranges to carry out the moisturizing or trade water. The terminal can also be a water supplier terminal and can inform the water supplier terminal of the information that the residual water amount of the household electrical appliance is less, so that the water supplier can replenish water or change water for the household electrical appliance as soon as possible.

In some embodiments, the home appliance may further include a water amount detection device, such as an ultrasonic detection device, which may directly detect the current water amount of the home appliance. Furthermore, the average value of the current water volume calculated by the water outlet volume and the current water volume detected by the water volume detection device is used as the final current water volume, so that the current water volume acquisition accuracy of the household appliance is improved.

In some embodiments, the household electrical appliance may further include a weight detection device, and the weight detection device may directly detect a current weight of the barreled water of the household electrical appliance, so as to obtain the current water amount. Further, the average value of the current water volume calculated by the water outlet volume and the current water volume calculated by the current weight is used as the final current water volume, so that the current water volume acquisition accuracy of the household appliance is improved.

In a fourth aspect of the present application, a terminal 700 is provided, and fig. 7 illustrates a schematic diagram of the terminal 700 according to an embodiment of the present application. Wherein, this terminal 700 includes:

a memory 702, the memory 702 storing a computer program;

and a processor 704, wherein the processor 704 implements the control method of the home appliance as described above when executing the computer program.

In the terminal 700 provided in the present application, when the computer program is executed by the processor 704, the steps of the method for controlling a home appliance according to any of the above embodiments are implemented, so that the terminal 700 includes all the advantages of the method for controlling a home appliance according to any of the above embodiments.

In an embodiment of the sixth aspect of the present application, a control system is proposed, and fig. 8 shows a schematic diagram of the control system according to an embodiment of the present application. Wherein, this control system includes:

a water dispenser 802 (the water dispenser 802 is a lower cabinet type water dispenser), wherein the water dispenser 802 comprises a network communication module 8022 and an electric control main control board 8024;

a terminal 804;

cloud server 806, cloud server 806 includes cloud database 8062.

When installing a new barrel of bottled water, the user can set the specification liter number of the bottled water (which can be set once or modified) on the APP function interface of the terminal 804, and selects the operation of resetting the water volume of the bucket to indicate that the new barrel of bottled water is changed currently, and the residual water volume is the specification liter number.

Later the water dispenser 802 can report the water volume change that is taken out through the water pump to cloud end server 806 through network communication module 8022 at the in-process of work, and cloud end server 806 compares the water volume of using that has drawn with the bottled water capacity that the user set up at the APP of terminal 804 to show the surplus water volume on the APP of terminal 804, discover to be close the warning capacity of settlement after, remind the user to prepare to change water on the APP of terminal 804. The reminding mode comprises sound reminding, lamp tube reminding, character reminding, information pushing reminding and the like.

It should be noted that the water outlet amount of each water outlet of the water dispenser is stored in the cloud database 8062. The cloud database 8062 also stores historical data, and can calculate the time when the remaining water amount is enough for the user according to the historical data, and remind the user to change water before the time.

The embodiment of the application can meet the requirement that a user can know the residual water quantity of the water dispenser even if the user is not on site, so that water can be changed in advance.

In an embodiment of the sixth aspect of the present application, a computer-readable storage medium is provided, on which a computer program is stored, and the computer program, when executed by a processor, implements the control method of the above home appliance.

The present application provides a computer-readable storage medium, wherein a computer program is executed by a processor to implement the steps of the control method of the home appliance according to any of the above embodiments, and therefore the computer-readable storage medium includes all the advantages of the control method of the home appliance according to any of the above embodiments.

The above description is only a preferred embodiment of the present application, and not intended to limit the scope of the present application, and all modifications and equivalents of the subject matter of the present application, which is conceived to be equivalent to the above description and the accompanying drawings, or to be directly/indirectly applied to other related arts, are intended to be included within the scope of the present application.

Claims

1. A method for controlling a home appliance, comprising:

acquiring the water outlet quantity of the household appliance;

determining the current water quantity of the household appliance according to the water outlet quantity and the pre-stored total water quantity;

and generating prompt information based on the current water volume being less than or equal to the water volume threshold.

2. The method for controlling a home appliance according to claim 1, further comprising:

and displaying the current water quantity of the household appliance.

3. The method for controlling a household appliance according to claim 1, wherein before the step of obtaining the outlet water amount of the household appliance, the method further comprises:

acquiring a water quantity setting signal;

storing the total amount of water in response to the water amount setting signal.

4. The method for controlling a home appliance according to claim 1, further comprising:

acquiring a water quantity reset signal;

updating the displayed current water amount to the total water amount in response to the water amount reset signal.

5. A control device for a home appliance, comprising:

a memory storing a computer program;

a processor implementing the method of controlling a home appliance according to any one of claims 1 to 4 when executing the computer program.

6. An appliance, comprising:

a memory storing a computer program;

7. The home device of claim 6, further comprising:

a flow detection device configured to detect a flow of water.

8. The home appliance of claim 6 or 7, further comprising:

a prompting device configured to issue a prompting message.

9. A terminal, comprising:

a memory storing a computer program;

10. A computer-readable storage medium, on which a computer program is stored, the computer program, when being executed by a processor, implementing a method for controlling an electric home appliance according to any one of claims 1 to 4.