CN113007874A

CN113007874A - Air conditioner, air conditioner operation method and electric appliance system

Info

Publication number: CN113007874A
Application number: CN202110261136.8A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 吴学伟; 杨华生; 邹宏亮; 左攀; 李志逢
Original assignee: Gree Electric Appliances Inc of Zhuhai
Current assignee: Gree Electric Appliances Inc of Zhuhai
Priority date: 2021-03-10
Filing date: 2021-03-10
Publication date: 2021-06-22

Abstract

The disclosure provides an air conditioner, an air conditioner operation method and an electric appliance system, and relates to the technical field of air conditioners. The disclosed air conditioner includes: a wire controller; an outdoor unit; and the internal machine comprises a mainboard and a remote monitoring interface in signal connection with the mainboard, wherein the mainboard executes protocol conversion matched with a protocol of the remote monitoring equipment, and the remote monitoring interface is configured to interact with the remote monitoring equipment under the condition of being connected with the switching module. The air conditioner can realize the conversion operation of the built-in remote monitoring data protocol through the built-in protocol conversion equipment of the mainboard, so that the switching module does not need to execute protocol conversion when the remote monitoring function is expanded, the expansion difficulty and complexity are reduced, and the convenience of the expansion and matching of the air conditioner function is improved.

Description

Air conditioner, air conditioner operation method and electric appliance system

Technical Field

The disclosure relates to the technical field of air conditioners, in particular to an air conditioner, an air conditioner operation method and an electric appliance system.

Background

At present, a one-driving-one light business air conditioning system generally adopts an RS485 bus to carry out networking for data interaction. In order to implement remote monitoring, a communication circuit needs to be additionally added to an internal motherboard, and then a gateway is externally connected, and the gateway converts data into a commonly-used remote monitoring protocol, such as a MODBUS protocol, and a network topology of the gateway can be as shown in fig. 1.

Disclosure of Invention

An object of the present disclosure is to improve configuration lightness and expansion convenience of an air conditioning system.

According to an aspect of some embodiments of the present disclosure, there is provided an air conditioner including: a wire controller; an outdoor unit; and the internal machine comprises a mainboard and a remote monitoring interface in signal connection with the mainboard, wherein the mainboard executes protocol conversion matched with a protocol of the remote monitoring equipment, and the remote monitoring interface is configured to interact with the remote monitoring equipment under the condition of being connected with the switching module.

In some embodiments, the air conditioner further comprises: a patching module comprising at least one of: the wired communication transceiver circuit is configured to have one end connected with the remote monitoring interface and the other end connected with the remote monitoring equipment; or the wireless communication transceiving circuit comprises an interface matched with the remote monitoring interface, a wireless signal protocol conversion unit and a wireless signal transceiving unit, and is configured that one end is connected with the remote monitoring interface, and the other end interacts with the remote monitoring equipment through a wireless signal.

In some embodiments, the motherboard is configured to: under the condition that the switching module comprises a wired communication transceiver circuit and a wireless communication transceiver circuit, triggering the wireless communication transceiver circuit to execute wireless data monitoring when being powered on; if the wireless communication transceiver circuit does not receive the session request of the wireless equipment, triggering the wired communication transceiver circuit to interact with the remote monitoring equipment; otherwise, the wireless communication transceiver circuit is interacted with the remote monitoring equipment.

In some embodiments, the air conditioner further comprises: the bus network is configured to be accessed by the line controller and the internal machine; the wire controller is configured to perform network time sequence scheduling on communication of a plurality of lower computers on the bus as an upper computer.

In some embodiments, the inner unit and the outer unit communicate through a strong electric line; the indoor unit further comprises an indoor unit strong electric data conversion unit configured to extract data from a strong electric line with the outdoor unit; converting the data sent to the outdoor unit into a strong electric signal and inputting the strong electric signal into a strong electric line; the outer machine still includes: an outdoor unit strong electric signal conversion unit configured to extract data from a strong electric line with an indoor unit; and converting the data sent to the internal unit into a strong electric signal and inputting the strong electric signal into a strong electric line.

In some embodiments, the air conditioner further comprises: an external unit wireless communication unit connected with the external unit and configured to transmit data transmitted to the internal unit through a wireless signal in case of a communication failure through a strong electric line; receiving data sent to the external machine by the internal machine through the internal machine wireless communication unit; the indoor unit wireless communication unit is connected with the indoor unit and is configured to transmit data transmitted to the outdoor unit through a wireless signal under the condition of communication failure through a strong electric circuit; and receiving the data sent to the internal unit by the external unit through the external unit wireless communication unit.

In some embodiments, the air conditioner further comprises: the wireless communication unit of the line controller is connected with the line controller and is configured to transmit data transmitted to the internal unit through a wireless signal under the condition of communication failure through a bus network; and receiving the data sent to the line controller by the internal machine through the internal machine wireless communication unit.

In some embodiments, the air conditioner is compliant with one or more of: the protocol of the remote monitoring equipment comprises an MODBUS protocol; the remote monitoring interface comprises a UART (Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter) interface; or the wired communication receiving and sending circuit is an RS485 communication circuit.

The air conditioner can realize the conversion operation of the built-in remote monitoring data protocol through the built-in protocol conversion equipment of the mainboard, so that the switching module does not need to execute protocol conversion when the remote monitoring function is expanded, the expansion difficulty and complexity are reduced, and the convenience of the expansion and matching of the air conditioner function is improved.

According to an aspect of some embodiments of the present disclosure, there is provided an electrical system, including: any one of the air conditioners mentioned above, wherein the air conditioner includes a bus network; the terminal equipment comprises one or more of a secondary line controller, a lamp panel, an electric air port controller, an entrance guard linkage switch, a human body detection detector and a dry electric shock linkage device; the terminal equipment, the wire controller of the air conditioner and the internal unit are respectively connected to the bus network, and the wire controller of the air conditioner is used as an upper computer to carry out time sequence scheduling on the terminal equipment and the internal unit.

In some embodiments, the electrical system further comprises: and the remote monitoring equipment is configured to remotely check and control the air conditioner through interaction with an internal machine of the air conditioner.

In the electrical system, the wire controller of the air conditioner is used as an upper computer to perform communication scheduling on lower computer equipment including an air conditioner internal unit, so that various terminal equipment can be conveniently accessed to a bus network as a matching unit and can be conveniently and intensively scheduled by the wire controller, the difficulty and complexity of expansion are reduced, and the convenience of function expansion and matching of the intelligent electrical appliance based on the air conditioner is improved.

According to an aspect of some embodiments of the present disclosure, there is provided an air conditioner operation method including: the main board of the internal machine carries out protocol conversion on data to be sent to the remote monitoring equipment according to the protocol of the remote monitoring equipment; sending the data after protocol conversion through a remote monitoring interface in signal connection with the main board, wherein the remote monitoring interface is configured to interact with remote monitoring equipment under the condition of being connected with the switching module; receiving data from the remote monitoring equipment forwarded by the switching module through the remote monitoring interface; and the mainboard of the internal machine converts the data from the remote monitoring equipment into a control signal according to the protocol of the remote monitoring equipment.

In some embodiments, the switching module comprises a wired communication transceiver circuit and a wireless communication transceiver circuit; when the mainboard of the internal machine is powered on, the wireless communication transceiver circuit is triggered to execute wireless data monitoring; if the wireless communication transceiver circuit does not receive the session request of the wireless equipment, triggering the wired communication transceiver circuit to interact with the remote monitoring equipment; otherwise, the wireless communication transceiver circuit is interacted with the remote monitoring equipment.

In some embodiments, the air conditioner operation method further includes: the line controller and the internal machine are interacted through a bus network, wherein the line controller is used as an upper computer to carry out network time sequence scheduling on communication of a plurality of lower computers on the bus.

In some embodiments, the air conditioner operation method further includes: the internal unit extracts data from a strong electric circuit between the internal unit and the external unit; converting data sent to the outdoor unit into a strong electric signal and inputting the strong electric signal into a strong electric line; the outer machine extracts data from a strong electric circuit between the outer machine and the inner machine; the data sent to the internal unit is converted into a strong electric signal and input into a strong electric line.

In some embodiments, the air conditioner operation method further includes: the method comprises the following steps that the external machine sends data sent to the internal machine to the external machine wireless communication unit under the condition of communication failure through a strong electric circuit so as to send the data through wireless signals; acquiring data received by the wireless communication unit of the external unit; the internal machine sends the data sent to the external machine to the internal machine wireless communication unit under the condition of communication fault through a strong electric circuit so as to send the data through a wireless signal; and acquiring data received by the wireless communication unit of the internal machine.

In some embodiments, the air conditioner operation method further includes: the line controller sends the data sent to the internal unit to the wireless communication unit of the line controller under the condition of communication failure through the bus network; and acquiring the data received by the wireless communication unit of the wire controller.

In some embodiments, the lower computer in the bus network comprises an internal machine and an extended terminal device, wherein the terminal device comprises one or more of a secondary line controller, a lamp panel, an electric air port controller, an entrance guard linkage switch, a human body detection detector and a dry-electric shock linkage device; the air conditioner operation method further includes: the line controller initiates a session request of the terminal equipment in a bus network by broadcasting; and the target terminal of the session request sends the state information according to the session request so that the target terminal equipment of the state information can receive the state information.

By the method, the built-in remote monitoring data protocol conversion operation can be realized through the built-in protocol conversion equipment of the mainboard of the air conditioner internal unit, so that the switching module does not need to execute protocol conversion when the remote monitoring function is expanded, the expansion difficulty and complexity are reduced, and the convenience of expansion and matching of the air conditioner function is improved.

Drawings

The accompanying drawings, which are included to provide a further understanding of the disclosure and are incorporated in and constitute a part of this disclosure, illustrate embodiments of the disclosure and together with the description serve to explain the disclosure and not to limit the disclosure. In the drawings:

fig. 1 is a schematic view illustrating remote monitoring of an air conditioner in the related art.

Fig. 2 is a schematic diagram of some embodiments of the air conditioner of the present disclosure.

Fig. 3 is a schematic view of further embodiments of the air conditioner of the present disclosure.

Fig. 4A to 4B are schematic views of further embodiments of the air conditioner of the present disclosure.

Fig. 5 is a schematic diagram of still other embodiments of the air conditioner of the present disclosure.

Fig. 6 is a schematic view of additional embodiments of the air conditioner of the present disclosure.

Fig. 7 is a schematic diagram of some embodiments of an appliance system of the present disclosure.

Fig. 8 is a schematic view of further embodiments of an electrical system of the present disclosure.

Fig. 9 is a flowchart of some embodiments of an air conditioner operation method of the present disclosure.

Fig. 10 is a flowchart of further embodiments of an air conditioning operation method of the present disclosure.

Detailed Description

The technical solution of the present disclosure is further described in detail by the accompanying drawings and examples.

The inventor finds that, because the requirement of remote monitoring is not the requirement of all customers, the gateway is adopted to perform protocol conversion as in the structure shown in fig. 1, which results in high overall cost and complexity, and is not beneficial to configuration selection and popularization and application.

A schematic diagram of some embodiments of the air conditioner of the present disclosure is shown in fig. 1. The inner machine is connected with the wire controller and the outer machine. The internal machine main board 21 can inherit a protocol conversion function matching the protocol of the remote monitoring apparatus. In some embodiments, the protocol of the remote monitoring device may be a MODBUS protocol. In some embodiments, the protocol conversion function may be integrated in a control chip of the motherboard, or may be implemented by adding a protocol conversion chip. The motherboard 21 is connected to a remote monitoring interface 22, and in some embodiments, the remote monitoring interface 22 may be a UART interface connected to a UART circuit. And when the remote monitoring function needs to be expanded subsequently, the signal connection with the remote monitoring equipment can be realized in a mode of connecting the switching module. In some embodiments, the optional switch module 23 may be an RS485 communication circuit.

The air conditioner can realize the conversion operation of the built-in remote monitoring data protocol through the built-in protocol conversion equipment of the mainboard, so that the switching module does not need to execute protocol conversion when the remote monitoring function is expanded, the expansion difficulty and complexity are reduced, the cost of the switching module is reduced, the convenience of the expansion and matching of the air conditioner function is improved, and the popularization and the application of the matching of the switching module are facilitated.

In some embodiments, as shown in fig. 3, the patching module may include both wired and wireless. The user can select and match two modules at the same time or one of the two modules.

The wired switching module 31 is a wired communication transceiver circuit, one end of which is connected to the remote monitoring interface, and the other end of which is connected to the remote monitoring device. In some embodiments, the wired communication transceiver circuit may be an RS485 communication circuit.

The wireless switching module 32, i.e. the wireless communication transceiver circuit, includes an interface matched with the remote monitoring interface, a wireless signal protocol conversion unit and a wireless signal transceiver unit, wherein the interface matched with the remote monitoring interface is connected with the remote monitoring interface on the internal unit, and the wireless signal transceiver unit interacts with the remote monitoring equipment through a wireless signal. In some embodiments, the Wireless signal transceiver units may be in various modes, such as Wi-Fi (Wireless Fidelity), NB-IOT (Narrow Band Internet of Things), LORA, Bluetooth, or Zigbee.

The air conditioner multiplexes the wireless remote communication interface and the wired remote communication interface by hardware, thereby improving the reliability and flexibility of communication, avoiding the burden of adding interfaces for the internal equipment and improving the lightness of the equipment.

In some embodiments, the internal machine mainboard triggers the wireless communication transceiver circuit to execute wireless data monitoring when the switching module is powered on under the condition that the switching module comprises the wired communication transceiver circuit and the wireless communication transceiver circuit; if the wireless communication transceiver circuit does not receive the session request of the wireless equipment, triggering the wired communication transceiver circuit to interact with the remote monitoring equipment; otherwise, the wireless communication transceiver circuit is interacted with the remote monitoring equipment.

The air conditioner makes full use of the power-on default states of the wireless and wired modules, and the efficiency of monitoring connection establishment is improved.

In some embodiments, as shown in fig. 4A, a wired weak electric network is not provided between the inner unit 43 and the outer unit 41 of the air conditioner, and the communication signal is carried through the strong electric line; the internal machine 43 is connected with the line controller 42 through a weak current network. In some embodiments, the inner unit and the outer unit communicate through a strong electric line; the indoor unit may include an indoor unit strong electric data conversion unit capable of extracting data from a strong electric line with the outdoor unit, and converting the data transmitted to the outdoor unit into a strong electric signal and inputting the strong electric signal to the strong electric line. The outdoor unit may include: and the external machine strong electric signal conversion unit can extract data from a strong electric line between the external machine and the internal machine, convert the data sent to the internal machine into a strong electric signal and input the strong electric signal into the strong electric line.

In the related art, the strong electric wires L/N between the internal machine and the external machine and the communication wires A/B are all required to be embedded in engineering, and for engineering convenience, the used wires are likely to be consistent, and the wire sequences at the two ends of the internal machine and the external machine cannot be in one-to-one correspondence. If a strong line L/N is connected to the communication port, the corresponding controller may be burned.

In the air conditioner in the embodiment of the disclosure, the internal unit and the external unit relate to strong current, and the internal unit and the line controller only relate to weak current, so that the whole air conditioning system network is divided into a strong current network and a weak current network. The strong electric network adopts a zero-live wire communication and other strong electric communication modes, and the weak electric network adopts an RS485/Homebus and other weak electric communication modes. No weak current circuit exists between the inner machine and the outer machine, even if the line sequence can not be corresponded, the mainboard can not be burnt on the corresponding strong current terminal, and because the weak current network is originally between the inner machine and the line controller, the engineering installation can be distinguished in the aspect of wire rod selection, therefore the problem of wrong connection can not appear, the equipment safety of the installation process is improved, and the installation difficulty is reduced.

In some embodiments, as shown in fig. 4B, since a strong power communication manner such as a zero-fire wire communication is adopted between the internal and external units, data transmission is more susceptible to interference, and therefore, the communication speed between the internal and external units is appropriately reduced, for example, a baud rate of 1200bps is adopted for data interaction; the original data which can finish interaction in one frame is divided into multi-frame data with fixed length to be sent in a time-sharing mode, and the influence caused by interference is reduced. For the internal machine and the wire controller network, due to the weak current type communication mode, the baud rate is improved to 57600bps, for example, on one hand, the efficiency of data interaction can be improved, and on the other hand, the interaction data between the internal machine and the external machine can be synchronously transmitted to the wire controller in the weak current network. In some embodiments, the internal strong-power data conversion unit can also perform bit rate conversion on data sent by the external unit to the line controller and data sent by the line controller to the external unit, so as to ensure that the communication requirements of a weak-power network and a strong-power network are met respectively.

In some embodiments, as shown in fig. 5, the air conditioner further includes a bus network to which the line controller 51 and the internal machines (521, 522, 523) are connected. The line controller 51 serves as an upper computer to perform network timing scheduling on the communication of a plurality of internal machines serving as lower computers on the bus. The inner units are connected to the respective corresponding outer units (531, 532, 533), and the transfer of information between the linear controller 51 and the respective outer units is accomplished in the manner mentioned in the above embodiments.

The air conditioner can release the control pressure of the inner machine as an upper computer, can realize centralized control by adopting the wire controller in a network with a plurality of inner machines and outer machine sets, reduces the control burden and is beneficial to the coordination control of the machine sets.

In some embodiments, the lower computer on the bus network can select configuration according to requirements, such as control terminals of a main line controller, a secondary line controller, a lamp panel, an electric air port and the like, and functional units of entrance guard switch linkage, human body detection, dry contact linkage and the like, besides an air conditioner internal unit.

In a light commercial air conditioning network in the related art, an internal machine, an external machine and a wire controller are all in the same network, and usually, an intermediate node of the internal machine is used as an upper computer in the network and is responsible for communication scheduling of the whole network. When the function needs to be expanded, the interface needs to be integrated on the internal machine mainboard, which leads to the increase of the size of the internal machine mainboard and the increase of the overall cost of the controller, and moreover, because the increase of the function is asynchronous, the problems of continuous iteration upgrade of hardware and the compatibility of new and old products are involved.

In the above embodiment of the present disclosure, the air conditioner may set various terminal devices as an optional module, and directly access the air conditioner to the unit network as a node on the weak current terminal network. The node exists in the network as a state device, and the wire controller serving as the upper computer only needs to initiate a session request of the state device and does not need to analyze device information. When the state equipment exists in the network, the state information of the network can be sent out by responding to the request of the upper computer, and the node needing to analyze the state in the network acquires and analyzes the state information. In the air conditioner, the main board does not relate to the iterative upgrade of hardware any more, and the support for the newly added terminal equipment can be expanded only by adding the resolution of the corresponding state equipment by the upgrade software, which is beneficial to the expansion of the equipment.

In some embodiments, as shown in fig. 6, the line controller, the internal unit, and the external unit may be respectively configured with an external wireless communication unit, which is respectively connected to interfaces configured by the line controller, the internal unit, and the external unit, such as UART interfaces. In some embodiments, the wireless communication unit may be an optional unit of the air conditioner, and the external unit wireless communication unit 631 and the internal unit wireless communication unit 632 are respectively configured when the external unit and the internal unit are in communication failure through a strong power line or are inconvenient to be buried.

The external unit wireless communication unit 631 is connected with the external unit, and transmits data transmitted to the internal unit through a wireless signal, and receives data transmitted to the external unit by the internal unit through the internal unit wireless communication unit.

The indoor unit wireless communication unit 632 is connected to the indoor unit, and transmits data to the outdoor unit via a wireless signal, and receives data transmitted from the outdoor unit to the indoor unit via the outdoor unit wireless communication unit.

In some embodiments, when the communication between the internal device and the line controller fails, the wireless communication unit 632 of the internal device may be optionally connected to the internal device, and configured to send data sent to the line controller via a wireless signal and receive data sent to the internal device by the line controller. Further, a wireless communication unit 633 of the line controller can be selected and connected with the line controller, the data sent to the indoor unit is sent through a wireless signal, and the data sent to the line controller by the indoor unit through the wireless communication unit of the indoor unit is received. In some embodiments, the wireless communication unit 633 may be the same or similar devices as the internal and external wireless communication units 632 and 631, including a UART interface connected to an air conditioner, a data processing device (e.g., a main IC) performing protocol conversion, and a wireless module (e.g., an RF circuit); the wireless communication unit 633 of the line controller can also be a wireless communication transceiver circuit as shown in fig. 3.

The air conditioner can improve the efficiency of troubleshooting, reduce the cost and difficulty of troubleshooting, improve the reliability of the air conditioner, solve the problem that a user does not want to replace the pipeline and the line again and improve the user friendliness under the condition that the line between the internal unit and the line controller is aged or is bitten by a mouse and the like to cause the abnormity of circuit breaking and the like.

In addition, the problem of line transformation related to replacement of old air conditioners is also solved through a wireless interaction mode among the internal unit, the line controller and the external unit, the problem of difficult wiring is solved, the difficulty and the cost of equipment replacement are reduced, and the replacement efficiency is improved.

An electrical system of the present disclosure is shown in fig. 7. The electric system includes any one of the air conditioners mentioned above, and the air conditioner includes a line controller 71, an internal unit 73, and an external unit. The line controller 71 is connected to one or more internal machines through a bus network, wherein the line controller serves as an upper machine and the internal machines serve as lower machines. The electric appliance system also comprises one or more terminal devices, including one or more of a secondary wire controller, a lamp panel, an electric air port controller, an entrance guard linkage switch, a human body detection detector and a dry electric shock linkage device. Each terminal device serves as a lower computer and receives the time sequence scheduling of the line controller 71.

The terminal equipment exists in the bus network as state equipment, and the wire controller as the upper computer only needs to initiate a session request of the state equipment and does not need to analyze equipment information. When the state equipment corresponding to the session request exists in the network, the state equipment responds to the request of the upper computer and sends self state information, and the node needing to analyze the state information in the network acquires and analyzes the state information.

The electric appliance system can be communicated and controlled by depending on the network and the wire controller of the air conditioner, and the internal machine mainboard of the air conditioner is not required to be subjected to hardware iterative upgrade, so that the function expansion of the electric appliance system is facilitated, and the difficulty and the complexity of the expansion are reduced. In addition, the control integration level of different electrical appliances and terminals is improved, the number of control devices needing to be installed is reduced, and the use complexity is reduced.

In some embodiments, the electrical system may further include a remote monitoring device, which is capable of remotely checking and controlling the air conditioner through interaction with an internal unit of the air conditioner, thereby improving user friendliness. In other embodiments, the remote monitoring device may further include an after-sales remote monitoring device, which facilitates real-time monitoring of the operating state of the device in the electrical system, timely discovery and resolution of problems, and improves the reliability of the system.

In some embodiments, when the interaction between the adopted wired switching module and the remote monitoring device fails, the wired switching module may be replaced with the wireless communication module shown in fig. 6, and a wireless module with a protocol conversion function is added to the original remote monitoring device end matched with the wired switching module, so as to implement fast adaptation of the device and improve the replacement efficiency.

In some embodiments, the electrical system may be centered around the line controller, the internal unit and the external unit of the air conditioner as shown in fig. 8, including a strong power network 81, a weak power network 82, a remote monitoring network 83 and a wireless backup network 84.

The strong power network 81 can support power supply and information interaction between the air conditioner internal unit and the air conditioner external unit.

The weak current network 82 is a bus connection network, and can meet the requirements of time sequence control of the line controller and the internal machine, time sequence control of other terminal equipment by taking the line controller as a control node, interaction of different parts of other terminal equipment and the like.

The remote monitoring network 83 includes a switching module and remote monitoring equipment connected to the indoor unit to facilitate real-time monitoring of the air conditioning system.

The wireless standby network 84 comprises wireless communication units respectively connected with the indoor unit, the outdoor unit and the line controller, so that the interaction between the indoor unit and the line controller and between the indoor unit and the outdoor unit is facilitated, wired communication lines do not need to be configured newly, and the difficulty and cost of deployment and maintenance are reduced.

The electric appliance network separates the communication networks between the inner machine and the outer machine and between the inner machine and the line controller in a strong and weak current separation mode, can effectively solve the problem of board burning caused by wrong connection of strong and weak electric lines of the inner machine and the outer machine, and simultaneously realizes the monitoring requirements of communication data under different networks through the transmission rate improvement of the weak current network and the data transparent transmission of the strong current network; the nodes of the weak current network are classified, and the nodes are divided into unit load equipment and other terminal equipment by taking a wire controller as a center, so that the universality of the controller is improved, and the overall cost of the controller is saved; a high-cost-performance remote monitoring facility scheme is provided in a software and hardware processing and separating mode, so that the expansion difficulty is reduced; the mode of externally expanding the wireless module is used as a standby network scheme, so that the problem that a user does not want to replace a pipeline and a line again under the abnormal conditions of replacing the market with an old air conditioner or abnormal lines of an internal machine and an external machine is solved quickly; in the aspect of remote monitoring network, the difficult problem of difficult wiring of a user can be solved by a protocol conversion mode of the two wireless modules.

A flow chart of some embodiments of the method of operating an air conditioner of the present disclosure is shown in fig. 9. In some embodiments, the air conditioning operating method of the present disclosure relies on at least one of the air conditioning or appliance systems described above.

In step 901, the motherboard of the internal unit performs protocol conversion on data to be sent to the remote monitoring device according to the protocol of the remote monitoring device.

In step 902, the protocol-converted data is sent through a remote monitoring interface connected to the motherboard, where the remote monitoring interface interacts with the remote monitoring device when connected to the switch module.

In step 903, the internal unit receives data from the remote monitoring device via the remote monitoring interface.

In step 904, the motherboard of the internal unit converts data from the remote monitoring device into a control signal according to a protocol of the remote monitoring device.

In some embodiments, the switch module includes a wired communication transceiver circuit and a wireless communication transceiver circuit. A flow chart of further embodiments of the air conditioning operation method of the present disclosure may be as shown in fig. 10.

In step 1001, a power-up operation triggers step 1002.

In step 1002, the motherboard of the internal device triggers the wireless communication transceiver circuit to perform wireless data monitoring.

In step 1003, it is determined whether the wireless transceiver circuit receives a session request from the wireless device. If a session request of the wireless device is received, execute step 1005; otherwise, step 1004 is performed.

In step 1004, the wired communication transceiver is triggered to interact with the remote monitoring device.

In step 1005, a remote monitoring device is interacted with through the wireless communication transceiver circuit.

By the method, the power-on default states of the wireless and wired modules are fully utilized, and the efficiency of establishing the monitoring connection is improved; by controlling the asynchronous work of the wireless and wired communication receiving and transmitting circuits, the single interface can be connected with the wired and wireless communication receiving and transmitting circuits at the same time, the multiplexing of the interfaces is realized, and the lightness of the equipment is improved.

In some embodiments, the external unit may send data sent to the internal unit to the external unit wireless communication unit for sending by wireless signals in case of communication failure through a strong electric line, and may further obtain data received by the external unit wireless communication unit. Correspondingly, the internal machine sends the data sent to the external machine to the wireless communication unit of the internal machine under the condition of communication fault through a strong electric circuit so as to send the data through wireless signals; and acquiring data received by the wireless communication unit of the internal machine.

By the method, the efficiency of troubleshooting can be improved, the cost and the difficulty of troubleshooting can be reduced, the reliability of the air conditioner can be improved, the problem that a user does not want to replace the pipeline and the line again can be solved, and the user friendliness can be improved under the condition that the abnormal conditions such as circuit breaking and the like are caused by aging of the line of the internal machine and the external machine or the fact that the line of the internal machine and the external machine is bitten by a mouse.

In some embodiments, the line controller may send the data sent to the internal unit to the line controller wireless communication unit in case of a communication failure through the bus network, so as to send the data to the internal unit wireless communication unit through the line controller wireless communication unit, and pass and acquire the data received by the line controller wireless communication unit.

By the method, the efficiency of troubleshooting can be improved, the cost and the difficulty of troubleshooting can be reduced, the reliability of the air conditioner can be improved, the problem that a user does not want to replace the pipeline and the circuit again can be solved, and the user friendliness can be improved under the condition that the circuit between the internal machine and the wire controller is aged or is bitten by a mouse to cause the abnormity of circuit breaking and the like.

In some embodiments, the line controller and the internal unit interact through a bus network, wherein the line controller is used as an upper computer to perform network time sequence scheduling on communication of a plurality of lower computers on the bus. The lower computer in the bus network comprises an internal machine and extended terminal equipment, and the terminal equipment comprises one or more of a secondary line controller, a lamp panel, an electric air port controller, an entrance guard linkage switch, a human body detection detector and a dry electric shock linkage device. The air conditioner operation method further includes: the line controller initiates a session request of the terminal equipment in a bus network by broadcasting; and the target terminal of the session request sends the state information according to the session request so that the target terminal equipment of the state information can receive the state information.

By the method, communication and control can be carried out by depending on a network and a line controller of the air conditioner, and the internal machine mainboard of the air conditioner is not required to be subjected to hardware iterative upgrade, so that the function expansion of an electric appliance system is facilitated, and the difficulty and the complexity of the expansion are reduced.

The present disclosure is described with reference to flowchart illustrations and/or block diagrams of methods, apparatus (systems) and computer program products according to embodiments of the disclosure. It will be understood that each flow and/or block of the flow diagrams and/or block diagrams, and combinations of flows and/or blocks in the flow diagrams and/or block diagrams, can be implemented by computer program instructions. These computer program instructions may be provided to a processor of a general purpose computer, special purpose computer, embedded processor, or other programmable data processing apparatus to produce a machine, such that the instructions, which execute via the processor of the computer or other programmable data processing apparatus, create means for implementing the functions specified in the flowchart flow or flows and/or block diagram block or blocks.

These computer program instructions may also be stored in a computer-readable memory that can direct a computer or other programmable data processing apparatus to function in a particular manner, such that the instructions stored in the computer-readable memory produce an article of manufacture including instruction means which implement the function specified in the flowchart flow or flows and/or block diagram block or blocks.

These computer program instructions may also be loaded onto a computer or other programmable data processing apparatus to cause a series of operational steps to be performed on the computer or other programmable apparatus to produce a computer implemented process such that the instructions which execute on the computer or other programmable apparatus provide steps for implementing the functions specified in the flowchart flow or flows and/or block diagram block or blocks.

Thus far, the present disclosure has been described in detail. Some details that are well known in the art have not been described in order to avoid obscuring the concepts of the present disclosure. It will be fully apparent to those skilled in the art from the foregoing description how to practice the presently disclosed embodiments.

The methods and apparatus of the present disclosure may be implemented in a number of ways. For example, the methods and apparatus of the present disclosure may be implemented by software, hardware, firmware, or any combination of software, hardware, and firmware. The above-described order for the steps of the method is for illustration only, and the steps of the method of the present disclosure are not limited to the order specifically described above unless specifically stated otherwise. Further, in some embodiments, the present disclosure may also be embodied as programs recorded in a recording medium, the programs including machine-readable instructions for implementing the methods according to the present disclosure. Thus, the present disclosure also covers a recording medium storing a program for executing the method according to the present disclosure.

Finally, it should be noted that: the above examples are intended only to illustrate the technical solutions of the present disclosure and not to limit them; although the present disclosure has been described in detail with reference to preferred embodiments, those of ordinary skill in the art will understand that: modifications to the specific embodiments of the disclosure or equivalent substitutions for parts of the technical features may still be made; all such modifications are intended to be included within the scope of the claims of this disclosure without departing from the spirit thereof.

Claims

1. An air conditioner, comprising:

a wire controller;

an outdoor unit; and

the internal machine comprises a mainboard and a remote monitoring interface in signal connection with the mainboard, wherein the mainboard executes protocol conversion matched with a protocol of the remote monitoring equipment, and the remote monitoring interface is configured to interact with the remote monitoring equipment under the condition of being connected with the switching module.

2. The air conditioner of claim 1, further comprising:

a patching module comprising at least one of:

the wired communication transceiver circuit is configured to have one end connected with the remote monitoring interface and the other end connected with the remote monitoring equipment; or

The wireless communication transceiving circuit comprises an interface matched with the remote monitoring interface, a wireless signal protocol conversion unit and a wireless signal transceiving unit, and is configured in such a way that one end of the wireless communication transceiving circuit is connected with the remote monitoring interface, and the other end of the wireless communication transceiving circuit interacts with the remote monitoring equipment through a wireless signal.

3. The air conditioner of claim 2, wherein the main board is configured to:

under the condition that the switching module comprises the wired communication transceiver circuit and the wireless communication transceiver circuit, triggering the wireless communication transceiver circuit to execute wireless data monitoring when the switching module is powered on;

if the wireless communication transceiver circuit does not receive the session request of the wireless equipment, triggering the wired communication transceiver circuit to interact with the remote monitoring equipment;

otherwise, the wireless communication transceiving circuit interacts with the remote monitoring equipment.

4. The air conditioner of claim 1, further comprising: the bus network is configured to be accessed by the line controller and the internal machine;

the wire controller is configured to perform network time sequence scheduling on communication of a plurality of lower computers on the bus as an upper computer.

5. The air conditioner according to any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein the inner unit and the outer unit communicate with each other through a strong electric line;

the indoor unit further includes an indoor unit strong electric data conversion unit configured to convert the indoor unit strong electric data into the indoor unit strong electric data

Extracting data from a strong electric line between the outdoor unit and the mobile terminal; and

converting data sent to the outdoor unit into a strong electric signal and inputting the strong electric signal into the strong electric circuit;

the outer machine further includes: an external unit strong electric signal conversion unit configured to

Extracting data from a strong electric line with the internal unit; and

and converting the data sent to the internal unit into a strong electric signal and inputting the strong electric signal into the strong electric circuit.

6. The air conditioner of claim 5, further comprising:

an external unit wireless communication unit connected with the external unit, configured to, in case of a communication failure through the strong electric line,

sending the data sent to the internal unit through a wireless signal; and

receiving data sent to the external machine by the internal machine through the internal machine wireless communication unit;

an indoor unit wireless communication unit connected with the indoor unit and configured to, in the event of a communication failure through the strong electric line,

transmitting data transmitted to the outdoor unit through a wireless signal; and

and receiving the data sent to the internal unit by the external unit through the external unit wireless communication unit.

7. The air conditioner according to claim 4 or 6, further comprising:

a wireless communication unit of the line controller, connected with the line controller, configured to, in case of communication failure through the bus network,

sending the data sent to the internal unit through a wireless signal; and

and receiving data sent to the line controller by the internal machine through the internal machine wireless communication unit.

8. The air conditioner of claim 2, in accordance with one or more of:

the protocol of the remote monitoring equipment comprises an MODBUS protocol;

the remote monitoring interface comprises a universal asynchronous receiver-transmitter (UART) interface; or

The wired communication transceiver circuit is an RS485 communication circuit.

9. An electrical system comprising:

the air conditioner of any one of claims 1 to 8, wherein the air conditioner comprises a bus network; and

the system comprises one or more terminal devices, wherein each terminal device comprises one or more of a secondary line controller, a lamp panel, an electric air port controller, an entrance guard linkage switch, a human body detection detector and a dry electric shock linkage device;

the terminal equipment, the line controller of the air conditioner and the internal unit are respectively connected to the bus network, and the line controller of the air conditioner is used as an upper computer to carry out time sequence scheduling on the terminal equipment and the internal unit.

10. The electrical system of claim 10, further comprising: and the remote monitoring equipment is configured to remotely check and control the air conditioner through interaction with the internal machine of the air conditioner.

11. An air conditioner operation method comprising:

the method comprises the following steps that a main board of an internal machine carries out protocol conversion on data to be sent to remote monitoring equipment according to a protocol of the remote monitoring equipment;

sending the data after protocol conversion through a remote monitoring interface in signal connection with the mainboard, wherein the remote monitoring interface is configured to interact with remote monitoring equipment under the condition of being connected with a switching module; and

receiving data from the remote monitoring equipment forwarded by the switching module through the remote monitoring interface;

and the mainboard of the internal machine converts the data from the remote monitoring equipment into a control signal according to the protocol of the remote monitoring equipment.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the transition module comprises a wired communication transceiver circuit and a wireless communication transceiver circuit;

when the mainboard of the internal unit is powered on, the wireless communication transceiver circuit is triggered to execute wireless data monitoring;

if the wireless communication transceiver circuit does not receive the session request of the wireless equipment, triggering a wired communication transceiver circuit to interact with the remote monitoring equipment;

13. The method of claim 11, further comprising: the line controller and the internal machine are interacted through a bus network, wherein the line controller is used as an upper computer to carry out network time sequence scheduling on communication of a plurality of lower computers on the bus.

14. The method of any of claims 11 to 13, further comprising:

the internal unit extracts data from a strong electric line between the internal unit and the external unit; converting data sent to the outdoor unit into a strong electric signal and inputting the strong electric signal into the strong electric circuit;

the outer machine extracts data from a strong electric circuit between the outer machine and the inner machine; and converting the data sent to the internal unit into a strong electric signal and inputting the strong electric signal into the strong electric circuit.

15. The method of claim 14, further comprising:

the external machine sends the data sent to the internal machine to the external machine wireless communication unit under the condition of communication fault through the strong electric circuit so as to send the data through wireless signals; acquiring data received by the wireless communication unit of the outdoor unit;

the indoor unit sends data sent to the outdoor unit to an indoor unit wireless communication unit under the condition of communication fault through the strong electric circuit so as to send the data through wireless signals; and acquiring data received by the internal machine wireless communication unit.

16. The method of claim 13 or 15, further comprising:

the line controller sends the data sent to the internal machine to the line controller wireless communication unit under the condition of communication failure through the bus network so as to send the data to the internal machine wireless communication unit through the line controller wireless communication unit; and acquiring the data received by the wireless communication unit of the wire controller.

17. The method of claim 13, wherein the lower computers in the bus network comprise internal machines and extended terminal devices, and the terminal devices comprise one or more of a secondary line controller, a lamp panel, an electric air port controller, an entrance guard linkage switch, a human body detection detector and an electric shock linkage device;

further comprising:

the line controller initiates a session request of the terminal equipment in a bus network through broadcasting;

and the target terminal of the session request sends state information according to the session request so as to be received by the target terminal equipment of the state information.