CN114205824A

CN114205824A - Method for connecting household electrical appliance to wireless network

Info

Publication number: CN114205824A
Application number: CN202111013116.5A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 张作强
Original assignee: Zhejiang Shaoxing Supor Domestic Electrical Appliance Co Ltd
Current assignee: Zhejiang Shaoxing Supor Domestic Electrical Appliance Co Ltd
Priority date: 2021-08-31
Filing date: 2021-08-31
Publication date: 2022-03-18

Abstract

The present specification proposes a method for connecting an electric home appliance to a wireless network. The product application can determine a second BSSID most similar to the first BSSID from a user side wireless network list according to the BSSID (marked as a first BSSID) of the 5GHZ access point provided by the SSID specified by the user, and sends the distribution network information containing the second BSSID to the household appliance, and a Wi-Fi module of the household appliance can be connected to a corresponding 2.4GHZ access point by using the second BSSID and further connected to a wireless network providing the 2.4GHZ access point. Therefore, even if the user does not provide the 2.4GHZ access point for the SSID specified by the household appliance distribution network, failure of the household appliance distribution network cannot be caused, and bad experience cannot be brought to the user.

Description

Method for connecting household electrical appliance to wireless network

Technical Field

The specification relates to the technical field of intelligent household appliances, in particular to a method for connecting a household appliance to a wireless network.

Background

Some household appliances on the market at present have Wi-Fi function and can be connected to a wireless network established by a router.

The Wi-Fi module of the home appliance may only support connection to the wireless network through the 2.4GHZ access point, and cannot connect to the wireless network that does not support the 2.4GHZ access point (only supports the 5GHZ access point). In this case, if the wireless network specified by the user for the distribution network of the household electrical appliance does not support the 2.4GHZ access point, the distribution network may fail, and poor experience may also be brought to the user.

Disclosure of Invention

In view of the above technical problems, the present specification proposes the following technical solutions:

in a first aspect, a method for connecting an electric home appliance to a wireless network is provided, in which a Wi-Fi module of the electric home appliance only supports connection to the wireless network through a 2.4GHZ access point, and a Wi-Fi module of a user mobile device supports connection to the wireless network through the 2.4GHZ access point and a 5GHZ access point, and a product application is installed on the user mobile device, and the method includes:

the product application acquires a user side wireless network list; the wireless network list at the user side is obtained by scanning various wireless networks which can be connected currently by a Wi-Fi module of the user mobile equipment; the user-side wireless network list includes: a plurality of wireless network identifiers SSIDs, and a physical address BSSID of an access point provided by each SSID;

if the product application determines that the user does not provide a 2.4GHZ access point for the SSID specified by the household appliance distribution network, acquiring the BSSID of the access point provided by the SSID specified by the user from the user side wireless network list as a first BSSID; determining a BSSID most similar to the first BSSID within the respective BSSID range except the first BSSID in the user-side wireless network list as a second BSSID;

the product application sends distribution network information containing the second BSSID to the household appliance by utilizing the communication connection between the user mobile equipment and the household appliance;

and the Wi-Fi module of the household appliance is connected to a wireless network through the 2.4GHZ access point according to the distribution network information.

In the technical solution of the first aspect, the product application may obtain the user-side wireless network list by using a scanning capability of a Wi-Fi module of the user mobile device, and since the Wi-Fi module of the device corresponding to the user may be connected to both a wireless network providing a 2.4GHZ access point and a wireless network providing a 5GHZ access point, the user-side wireless network list includes an SSID providing the 2.4GHZ access point and an SSID providing the 5GHZ access point, and in addition, the user-side wireless network list also includes a BSSID of each access point.

If the user does not provide a 2.4GHZ access point for the SSID specified by the home appliance distribution network, the fact means that the home appliance cannot be connected to the wireless network corresponding to the SSID specified by the user. In this case, it is described that the SSID specified by the creation user provides a 5GHZ access point, and that the router creating the SSID has a dual-band function, and creates a wireless network providing a 2.4GHZ access point in addition to a wireless network providing a 5GHZ access point.

The essential requirement for the user is to make the household appliance connect to the wireless network created by the target router (the router specified by the user), and whether the household appliance connects to the wireless network through the 2.4GHZ access point or the 5GHZ access point is not concerned by the user, but the user just specifies the SSID which is created by the target router and only supports the 5GHZ access point, and does not specify the SSID which is created by the target router and supports the 2.4GHZ access point. It would also be desirable to be able to meet the needs of a user if the home appliance could be connected to a wireless network created by a target router that provides a 2.4GHZ access point.

A wireless network created by the same router and providing a 2.4GHZ access point and a wireless network providing a 5GHZ access point have BSSIDs of access points provided by the two SSIDs respectively, which are often similar even though the two SSIDs have different SSIDs. Therefore, the product application may determine, from the user-side wireless network list, a second BSSID that is most similar to the first BSSID according to the BSSID (denoted as the first BSSID) of the 5GHZ access point provided by the SSID specified by the user, where the second BSSID is often the physical address of the 2.4GHZ access point, and the SSID providing the 2.4GHZ access point and the SSID originally specified by the user are both created by the target router.

And sending the distribution network information containing the second BSSID to the household appliance product, wherein the Wi-Fi module of the household appliance product can be connected to the corresponding 2.4GHZ access point by using the second BSSID, and further connected to a wireless network providing the 2.4GHZ access point, and the purpose of accessing the public network through the target router can also be realized.

Through the technical scheme of the first aspect, even if the user does not provide a 2.4GHZ access point for the SSID specified by the household appliance distribution network, failure of the household appliance distribution network cannot be caused, and bad experience cannot be brought to the user.

In some embodiments, whether any SSID provides a 2.4GHZ access point is determined by:

the product application acquires remark information from an operating system of the user mobile equipment, wherein the remark information is used for determining the type of an access point provided by each SSID in the user side wireless network list;

and the product application judges whether any SSID provides a 2.4GHZ access point or not according to the remark information.

If the product application has the authority to acquire the type of the access point provided by each SSID in the user side wireless network list from the operating system of the user mobile equipment, whether any SSID provides a 2.4GHZ access point can be judged according to remark information provided by the operating system.

In some embodiments, whether any SSID supports a 2.4GHZ access point is determined by:

the product application acquires a product side wireless network list from the household appliance through the communication connection; the product side wireless network list is obtained by scanning various wireless networks which can be connected currently by the Wi-Fi module of the household appliance; the product-side wireless network list includes: several SSIDs, and BSSIDs of access points provided by each SSID;

the product application compares the user side wireless network list with the product side wireless network list, determines the SSID which is contained in the user side wireless network list and is not contained in the product side wireless network list as the SSID which does not provide the 2.4GHZ access point, and determines the SSID which is contained in the product side wireless network list as the SSID which provides the 2.4GHZ access point.

The Wi-Fi module of the household appliance only supports connection to the wireless network through the 2.4GHZ access point, so that each SSID in the product side wireless network list scanned by the Wi-Fi module of the household appliance is the SSID providing the 2.4GHZ access point, and the product side wireless network list does not include the SSID providing the 5GHZ access point. By comparing the user-side wireless network list with the product-side wireless network list, it can be determined which SSIDs provide 2.4GHZ access points and which SSIDs do not provide 2.4GHZ access points.

In some embodiments, further comprising:

and if the product application determines that the user provides a 2.4GHZ access point for the SSID appointed by the household appliance distribution network, the product application sends the distribution network information containing the SSID to the household appliance by utilizing the communication connection between the user mobile equipment and the household appliance.

If the SSID specified by the user is one that can provide a 2.4GHZ access point, then the product application may send the SSID directly to the home appliance, which may connect to the wireless network directly according to the SSID.

In some embodiments, the distribution network information further includes:

the user is the SSID appointed by the household appliance distribution network;

the method further comprises the following steps:

and the notification module of the household appliance product sends a distribution network success notification containing the SSID to a user.

The distribution network information comprises a second BSSID and also comprises an SSID appointed by a user, so that the notification module of the household appliance can send a distribution network success notification containing the SSID to the user, the user does not need to know that the Wi-Fi module of the household appliance is actually connected to the wireless network through the second BSSID, the user can think that the household appliance is connected to the wireless network through the SSID appointed by the user, and therefore 'connection is smooth' feedback can be provided for the user, and user experience is improved.

In some embodiments, the distribution network information further includes:

and the wireless network password corresponds to the SSID appointed by the household appliance distribution network.

Some wireless networks need to be connected for verification, and in this case, the wireless network password needs to be sent to the household appliance.

In some embodiments, the obtaining the SSID specified by the user for the distribution network of the home appliance by the product application includes:

the product application presents a distribution network interface to a user; the distribution network interface comprises all SSIDs in the user side wireless network list;

and the product application determines the SSID selected by the user in the distribution network interface as the SSID appointed by the user for the household appliance distribution network.

In the design of the distribution network flow, the product application can prompt a user to select an SSID from a user side wireless network list as the SSID appointed by the household appliance distribution network. Since the user mobile device and the home appliance are often in the same environment, a wireless network to which a Wi-Fi module of the user mobile device can be connected often covers an area where the home appliance is located.

the product application is obtained from an operating system of the user mobile equipment, and the SSID of a wireless network to which a Wi-Fi module of the user mobile equipment is currently connected is obtained;

and the product application takes the SSID acquired from the operating system as the SSID appointed by the user for the household appliance distribution network.

In the design of the distribution network process, the SSID of the wireless network currently connected to the Wi-Fi module of the user mobile device may be used as the SSID specified by the user for the distribution network of the household appliance. Since the user mobile device and the home appliance are often in the same environment, a wireless network to which a Wi-Fi module of the user mobile device can be connected often covers an area where the home appliance is located.

In some embodiments, determining a BSSID that is most similar to the first BSSID within each BSSID range in the user-side wireless network list except for the first BSSID comprises:

for each SSID in the user side wireless network list except for the SSID specified by the user, if the SSID is determined to support the 2.4GHZ access point, determining the similarity degree of the BSSID of the 2.4GHZ access point and the first BSSID;

the BSSID of the 2.4GHZ access point with the largest similarity degree is used as the second BSSID.

In the user side wireless network list, only the SSID of the 5GHZ access point is provided for exclusion, and traversal is performed in the BSSIDs corresponding to the rest SSIDs of the 2.4GHZ access points, so that the calculation amount can be saved, and the calculation efficiency can be improved.

In a second aspect, a method for connecting a home appliance to a wireless network is provided, where a Wi-Fi module of the home appliance only supports connection to the wireless network through a 2.4GHZ access point, and a Wi-Fi module of a user mobile device supports connection to the wireless network through the 2.4GHZ access point and a 5GHZ access point, and a product application is installed on the user mobile device, and the method includes:

the product application acquires a user side wireless network list; the wireless network list at the user side is obtained by scanning various wireless networks which can be connected currently by a Wi-Fi module of the user mobile equipment; the user-side wireless network list includes: several SSIDs, and BSSIDs of access points provided by each SSID;

the product application determines the BSSID of the access point provided by the SSID appointed by the household appliance product distribution network as a first BSSID from the user side wireless network list; determining a BSSID most similar to the first BSSID as a second BSSID within respective BSSID ranges except the first BSSID in the user-side wireless network list;

the product application sends distribution network information containing the first BSSID and the second BSSID to the household appliance by utilizing a communication connection between the user mobile equipment and the household appliance;

and the Wi-Fi module of the household appliance product is connected to a wireless network through a 2.4GHZ access point according to the first BSSID or the second BSSID in the distribution network information.

In the technical solution of the second aspect, the product application may obtain the user-side wireless network list by using a scanning capability of a Wi-Fi module of the mobile device of the user, and since the Wi-Fi module of the device corresponding to the user can be connected to both a wireless network providing a 2.4GHZ access point and a wireless network providing a 5GHZ access point, the user-side wireless network list includes an SSID providing the 2.4GHZ access point and an SSID providing the 5GHZ access point, and in addition, the user-side wireless network list also includes a BSSID of each access point.

The product application does not need to judge whether the SSID specified by the user for the household appliance distribution network provides a 2.4GHZ access point or not, and the SSID specified by the user may provide the 2.4GHZ access point or only provide the 5GHZ access point. The BSSID of the access point provided by the SSID is taken as a first BSSID, and the product application looks for the BSSID most similar to the first BSSID in the user-side wireless network list as a second BSSID. The access point corresponding to the second BSSID may be a 2.4GHZ access point, or may be a 5GHZ access point, or even the access point corresponding to the second BSSID and the access point corresponding to the first BSSID may not belong to the same router (in this case, it is often stated that the access point corresponding to the first BSSID is a 2.4GHZ access point).

After the product application sends the distribution network information containing the first BSSID and the second BSSID to the home appliance product, the Wi-Fi module of the home appliance product can always connect to the 2.4GHZ access point based on the first BSSID or the second BSSID, and then connect to the wireless network providing the 2.4GHZ access point.

Through the technical scheme of the second aspect, even if the user does not provide a 2.4GHZ access point for the SSID specified by the household appliance distribution network, failure of the household appliance distribution network cannot be caused, and bad experience cannot be brought to the user.

In some embodiments, the connecting, by the 2.4GHZ access point, the Wi-Fi module of the home appliance to the wireless network according to the first BSSID or the second BSSID in the distribution network information includes:

the Wi-Fi module of the household appliance tries to connect a wireless network according to the first BSSID in the distribution network information; and if the connection fails, connecting to the wireless network through the 2.4GHZ access point according to the second BSSID in the distribution network information.

The access point corresponding to the second BSSID and the access point corresponding to the first BSSID may not belong to the same router, and there may be a 2.4GHZ access point where the access point corresponding to the first BSSID is a target router, and a 2.4GHZ access point where the access point corresponding to the second BSSID is a non-target router. However, the user has an essential purpose of connecting the Wi-Fi module of the home appliance product to the wireless network created by the target router, and therefore, the user can attempt to connect according to the first BSSID first, if the connection is successful, it is indicated that the access point corresponding to the first BSSID is the 2.4GHZ access point of the target router, the home appliance product can be successfully connected to the wireless network created by the target router, and if the connection is failed, it is indicated that the access point corresponding to the first BSSID is the 5GHZ access point of the target router, and the access point corresponding to the second BSSID is necessarily the 2.4GHZ access point of the target router, and the home appliance can connect to the wireless network created by the target router according to the second BSSID.

In some embodiments, the distribution network information further includes:

and the user is the wireless network password corresponding to the SSID appointed by the household appliance distribution network.

Some wireless networks need to be connected for verification, and in this case, the wireless network password needs to be sent to the household appliance. And if the situation that the access point corresponding to the first BSSID is the 2.4GHZ access point of the target router and the access point corresponding to the second BSSID is the 2.4GHZ access point of the non-target router exists, the household appliance product can not be connected to the wireless network created by the non-target router, and the wireless network password in the distribution network information can not pass the verification of the non-target router.

In a third aspect, a method for connecting a home appliance to a wireless network is provided, where a Wi-Fi module of the home appliance only supports connection to the wireless network through a 2.4GHZ access point, a Wi-Fi module of a user mobile device supports connection to the wireless network through the 2.4GHZ access point and a 5GHZ access point, and a product application is installed on the user mobile device, and the method is applied to the product application, and the method includes:

if the fact that the user does not provide the 2.4GHZ access point for the SSID specified by the household appliance distribution network is determined, acquiring the BSSID of the access point provided by the SSID specified by the user from the user side wireless network list to serve as a first BSSID; determining a BSSID most similar to the first BSSID within the respective BSSID range except the first BSSID in the user-side wireless network list as a second BSSID;

sending the distribution network information containing the second BSSID to the household appliance by utilizing the communication connection between the user mobile equipment and the household appliance; and enabling the Wi-Fi module of the household appliance to be connected to a wireless network through the 2.4GHZ access point according to the distribution network information.

In a fourth aspect, a method for connecting a home appliance to a wireless network is provided, where a Wi-Fi module of the home appliance only supports connection to the wireless network through a 2.4GHZ access point, a Wi-Fi module of a user mobile device supports connection to the wireless network through the 2.4GHZ access point and a 5GHZ access point, a product application is installed on the user mobile device, and the method is applied to the Wi-Fi module of the home appliance, and the method includes:

connecting to a wireless network through a 2.4GHZ access point according to the received distribution network information;

the product application acquires a user side wireless network list; the wireless network list at the user side is obtained by scanning various wireless networks which can be connected currently by a Wi-Fi module of the user mobile equipment; the user-side wireless network list includes: several SSIDs, and BSSIDs of access points provided by each SSID; if the fact that the user does not provide the 2.4GHZ access point for the SSID specified by the household appliance distribution network is determined, acquiring the BSSID of the access point provided by the SSID specified by the user from the user side wireless network list to serve as a first BSSID; determining a BSSID most similar to the first BSSID within the respective BSSID range except the first BSSID in the user-side wireless network list as a second BSSID; and sending the distribution network information containing the second BSSID to the household appliance by utilizing the communication connection between the user mobile equipment and the household appliance.

In a fifth aspect, a method for connecting a home appliance to a wireless network is provided, where a Wi-Fi module of the home appliance only supports connection to the wireless network through a 2.4GHZ access point, and a Wi-Fi module of a user mobile device supports connection to the wireless network through a 2.4GHZ access point and a 5GHZ access point, and a product application is installed on the user mobile device, and the method is applied to the product application, and the method includes:

acquiring a wireless network list of a user side; the wireless network list at the user side is obtained by scanning various wireless networks which can be connected currently by a Wi-Fi module of the user mobile equipment; the user-side wireless network list includes: several SSIDs, and BSSIDs of access points provided by each SSID;

determining BSSID of an access point provided by SSID appointed by a user for the household appliance distribution network from the user side wireless network list as first BSSID; determining a BSSID most similar to the first BSSID as a second BSSID within respective BSSID ranges except the first BSSID in the user-side wireless network list;

sending distribution network information containing the first BSSID and the second BSSID to the household appliance by utilizing a communication connection between the user mobile equipment and the household appliance; enabling the Wi-Fi module of the household appliance product to be connected to a wireless network through a 2.4GHZ access point according to the first BSSID or the second BSSID in the distribution network information.

In a sixth aspect, a method for connecting a home appliance to a wireless network is provided, where a Wi-Fi module of the home appliance only supports connection to the wireless network through a 2.4GHZ access point, a Wi-Fi module of a user mobile device supports connection to the wireless network through a 2.4GHZ access point and a 5GHZ access point, and a product application is installed on the user mobile device, and the method is applied to the Wi-Fi module of the home appliance, and the method includes:

connecting to a wireless network through a 2.4GHZ access point according to the first BSSID or the second BSSID in the received distribution network information;

the product application acquires a user side wireless network list; the wireless network list at the user side is obtained by scanning various wireless networks which can be connected currently by a Wi-Fi module of the user mobile equipment; the user-side wireless network list includes: several SSIDs, and BSSIDs of access points provided by each SSID; determining BSSID of an access point provided by SSID appointed by a user for the household appliance distribution network from the user side wireless network list as first BSSID; determining a BSSID most similar to the first BSSID as a second BSSID within respective BSSID ranges except the first BSSID in the user-side wireless network list; and sending the distribution network information containing the first BSSID and the second BSSID to the household appliance by utilizing the communication connection between the user mobile equipment and the household appliance.

In a seventh aspect, a device for connecting a home appliance to a wireless network is provided, where a Wi-Fi module of the home appliance only supports connection to the wireless network through a 2.4GHZ access point, a Wi-Fi module of a user mobile device supports connection to the wireless network through a 2.4GHZ access point and a 5GHZ access point, a product application is installed on the user mobile device, and the device is applied to the product application, and the device includes:

the acquisition unit acquires a wireless network list of a user side; the wireless network list at the user side is obtained by scanning various wireless networks which can be connected currently by a Wi-Fi module of the user mobile equipment; the user-side wireless network list includes: several SSIDs, and BSSIDs of access points provided by each SSID;

the processing unit is used for acquiring the BSSID of the access point provided by the SSID specified by the user from the user side wireless network list as a first BSSID if the fact that the SSID specified by the household appliance distribution network by the user does not provide a 2.4GHZ access point is determined; determining a BSSID most similar to the first BSSID within the respective BSSID range except the first BSSID in the user-side wireless network list as a second BSSID;

a sending unit, configured to send distribution network information including the second BSSID to the home appliance by using a communication connection between the user mobile device and the home appliance; and enabling the Wi-Fi module of the household appliance to be connected to a wireless network through the 2.4GHZ access point according to the distribution network information.

In an eighth aspect, a device for connecting a home appliance to a wireless network is provided, where a Wi-Fi module of the home appliance only supports connection to the wireless network through a 2.4GHZ access point, a Wi-Fi module of a user mobile device supports connection to the wireless network through a 2.4GHZ access point and a 5GHZ access point, a product application is installed on the user mobile device, and the device is applied to the Wi-Fi module of the home appliance, and the device includes:

the connecting unit is connected to the wireless network through the 2.4GHZ access point according to the received distribution network information;

In a ninth aspect, a device for connecting a home appliance to a wireless network is provided, where a Wi-Fi module of the home appliance only supports connection to the wireless network through a 2.4GHZ access point, a Wi-Fi module of a user mobile device supports connection to the wireless network through the 2.4GHZ access point and a 5GHZ access point, a product application is installed on the user mobile device, and the device is applied to the product application, and the device includes:

the processing unit is used for determining BSSID of an access point provided by SSID appointed by a user for the household appliance distribution network as first BSSID; determining a BSSID most similar to the first BSSID as a second BSSID within respective BSSID ranges except the first BSSID in the user-side wireless network list;

a sending unit, configured to send distribution network information including the first BSSID and the second BSSID to the home appliance by using a communication connection between the user mobile device and the home appliance; enabling the Wi-Fi module of the household appliance product to be connected to a wireless network through a 2.4GHZ access point according to the first BSSID or the second BSSID in the distribution network information.

In a tenth aspect, a device for connecting a home appliance to a wireless network is provided, where a Wi-Fi module of the home appliance only supports connection to the wireless network through a 2.4GHZ access point, a Wi-Fi module of a user mobile device supports connection to the wireless network through a 2.4GHZ access point and a 5GHZ access point, a product application is installed on the user mobile device, and the device is applied to the Wi-Fi module of the home appliance, and the device includes:

the connecting unit is used for connecting to a wireless network through a 2.4GHZ access point according to the first BSSID or the second BSSID in the received distribution network information;

In an eleventh aspect, a home appliance applying the method embodiments provided by the present disclosure is provided.

In a twelfth aspect, a computer-readable storage medium is provided, on which a computer program is stored, which when executed by a processor implements the functionality of a product application in the method embodiments provided by the present disclosure.

In a thirteenth aspect, a computer-readable storage medium is provided, on which a computer program is stored, where the computer program, when executed by a processor, implements the functions of a Wi-Fi module of an appliance product in the method embodiments provided in this disclosure.

It is to be understood that both the foregoing general description and the following detailed description are exemplary and explanatory only and are not restrictive of the specification.

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In order to more clearly illustrate the embodiments of the present specification or the technical solutions in the prior art, the drawings needed to be 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 described in the embodiments of the present specification, and other drawings can be obtained by those skilled in the art according to the drawings.

Fig. 1 is a flow chart illustrating a method for connecting an electric home appliance to a wireless network according to the present disclosure;

fig. 2 is a flowchart illustrating a method for connecting another home appliance to a wireless network according to the present disclosure.

Detailed Description

The household appliance product described herein generally refers to various electric appliances applied to home environment or other places (such as office buildings), and specifically may be a cooking appliance with a certain cooking function, such as an electric pressure cooker, an electric frying pan, and the like. In addition, the cooking appliance can also be a multifunctional cooking appliance with various cooking functions. In addition, the household appliances may be, for example, washing machines, air conditioners, televisions, air cleaners, automatic massage chairs, treadmills, and the like.

The household appliance described in the specification has the conventional structure and functions (such as a product shell, a power interface, basic household appliance functions and the like) of the household appliance on the current market, and also has a Wi-Fi module. The Wi-Fi module herein may be understood as a communication module having only a Wi-Fi function, and may also be understood as a communication module having not only a Wi-Fi function but also an NFC function or a bluetooth function. In practical application, a module integrating Wi-Fi function and bluetooth function may also be referred to as a Combo module.

Routers are typically wired to a public network, and routers may be used to create one or more wireless networks (belonging to a local area network). The wireless network provides an access point to which the networked devices are actually first connected, and then to the wireless network. The types of access points provided by the wireless network include a 2.4GHZ access point and a 5GHZ access point.

The existing routers on the market only support a single frequency, that is, a wireless network created by the routers only provides a 2.4GHZ access point, and networking devices (such as user mobile devices, household appliances and the like) can only connect to the wireless network through the 2.4GHZ access point.

Furthermore, there are routers on the market that support dual-band, i.e., such routers would create not only a wireless network that provides 2.4GHZ access points, but also a wireless network that provides 5GHZ access points.

Different modes may exist in the Wi-Fi modules of the networking devices, and some Wi-Fi modules only support connection to a wireless network through a 2.4GHZ access point and cannot be connected to the wireless network providing a 5GHZ access point. There are Wi-Fi modules that support connection to the wireless network through a 5GHZ access point. It should be noted that a Wi-Fi module supporting a 5GHZ access point also tends to support a 2.4GHZ access point, such as a Wi-Fi module of a user mobile device. The Wi-Fi module only supporting the 2.4GHZ access point has low cost and is commonly used for various household appliances.

The wireless network has its own wireless network identification SSID, and it should be noted that, for the same dual-band router, the wireless network that provides the 5GHZ access point and the wireless network that provides the 2.4GHZ access point that are created by the dual-band router may use different SSIDs, in this case, the same dual-band router actually provides two SSIDs to the outside, each SSID corresponds to only one wireless network, and the wireless network provides either only the 2.4GHZ access point or only one SSID provides only the 5GHZ access point. In addition, for the same dual-band router, the wireless network providing the 5GHZ access point and the wireless network providing the 2.4GHZ access point created by the dual-band router may also use the same SSID, in this case, the same dual-band router actually provides an SSID to the outside, the SSID corresponds to two wireless networks, one of the wireless networks provides the 2.4GHZ access point, and the other wireless network provides the 5GHZ access point.

In practical applications, if wireless networks created by a router that provide access points of different frequencies have different SSIDs, the two SSIDs may or may not be similar. Routers typically support user modification of SSIDs, which may modify the SSIDs of two different access points providing the same router to be very dissimilar. In this case, if the SSID assigned by the user for the distribution network of the home appliance does not provide a 2.4GHZ access point, it is difficult for the home appliance to match to other similar SSIDs according to the SSID, which are the SSIDs of the same router providing the 2.4GHZ access point, which may result in a failure of the user for the distribution network of the home appliance.

An idea for solving the above technical problem is that, if the product application determines that the SSID specified by the user for the distribution network of the home appliance does not provide the 2.4GHZ access point, the product application may prompt the user to re-specify the SSID providing the 2.4GHZ access point. This approach can be somewhat intrusive to the user, requiring the user to coordinate the switch to the specified SSID.

For example, the product application may default to the SSID of the wireless network to which the user's mobile device is currently connected as the SSID specified by the user for the home product distribution network. Whereas currently marketed user mobile devices tend to default to connecting to the wireless network through a 5GHZ access point. If the wireless network which is created by the target router and provides the 5GHZ access point and the wireless network which provides the 2.4GHZ access point do not share the SSID, in this case, the SSID which provides the 5GHZ access point is often used as the SSID which is designated by the user by the product application, and once the product application finds that the SSID which is designated by the user does not provide the 2.4GHZ access point, the product application prompts the user to connect the own user mobile equipment to the wireless network which is created by the target router again through the 2.4GHZ access point. After the user is matched with and reconnects the user mobile equipment to the wireless network providing the 2.4GHZ access point, the product application reacquires the SSID currently connected with the user mobile equipment and sends the SSID to the household appliance product for distribution.

In addition, other ideas are also available to solve the above technical problems.

The access points provided by the wireless network have physical addresses BSSIDs, and the BSSIDs of access points of different frequencies of the same router are often different but are similar. In other words, the degree of similarity between the BSSID of the 2.4GHZ access point of a certain router and the BSSID of the 5GHZ access point of the same router is significantly greater than the degree of similarity between the BSSID of the 2.4GHZ access point of the router and the BSSIDs of the access points of other routers.

In practical applications, the format of the BSSID is typically a 48-bit binary identifier; the BSSID of a 5GHZ access point for the same router is the same as at least the first 40-bit binary identifier of the BSSID of a 2.4GHZ access point. Also, routers typically do not support user modification of BSSIDs of access points.

The Wi-Fi module of the household appliance can be directly connected to the wireless network according to the BSSID of the 2.4GHZ access point without depending on the SSID. Therefore, in the technical scheme of the disclosure, the BSSID of the 2.4GHZ access point is determined according to the SSID specified by the user for the distribution network of the household appliance product, and the BSSID of the 2.4GHZ access point is transmitted to the Wi-Fi module of the household appliance product. Therefore, on one hand, matching between two SSIDs of the same router can be avoided (the two SSIDs of the same router are not similar at many times), on the other hand, the similarity between the BSSIDs of the two access points of the same router can be utilized to ensure that the BSSID of the 2.4GHZ access point is transmitted to a Wi-Fi module of the household appliance, and the success rate of distribution network is improved.

Two specific technical ideas are derived from the basic technical idea, wherein one specific technical idea is that the BSSID of the 5GHZ access point and the BSSID of the 2.4GHZ access point corresponding to the same router can be matched to the BSSID of the 2.4GHZ access point of the same router according to the SSID of the 5GHZ access point by using the similarity between the BSSID of the 5GHZ access point and the BSSID of the 2.4GHZ access point, so that the home appliance product can be connected to the wireless network which is created by the same router and provides the 2.4GHZ access point according to the matched BSSID of the 2.4GHZ access point, and the effect of connecting the home appliance product to the same router can be achieved. Based on such specific technical conception, the present disclosure provides the following technical solutions:

the product application can acquire the user side wireless network list by utilizing the scanning capability of the Wi-Fi module of the user mobile device, and as the Wi-Fi module of the device corresponding to the user can be connected to both a wireless network providing a 2.4GHZ access point and a wireless network providing a 5GHZ access point, the user side wireless network list comprises an SSID providing the 2.4GHZ access point and an SSID providing the 5GHZ access point, and in addition, the user side wireless network list also comprises a BSSID of each access point.

Through the technical scheme, even if the user does not provide a 2.4GHZ access point for the SSID specified by the household appliance distribution network, failure of the household appliance distribution network cannot be caused, and bad experience cannot be brought to the user.

Fig. 1 is a schematic flowchart of a method for connecting an electric home appliance to a wireless network, which includes the following steps:

s100: the product application obtains a user-side wireless network list.

The product application described herein refers to an application developed by a manufacturer of an electric home appliance, and is used for providing a service related to the electric home appliance for a user on a mobile device side of the user. Product applications are typically installed in the operating system of the user's mobile device (described as applications installed on the user's mobile device, again without ambiguity). The application may be a client program (e.g., APP installed on a cell phone) or a light application (e.g., a web application, an android application, etc.). Light applications can be understood as lightweight programs that do not require downloading of clients.

Product applications can typically interact with product servers. The product server described herein refers to a server maintained by a home appliance manufacturer. On one hand, the product application may perform network interaction with the product server, for example, after the user operates the mobile device to start the product application, the user may log in to the product server through the product application, in this case, the user identifier corresponding to the product application for the user has a binding relationship. On the other hand, under the condition that the household appliance is connected to the network, the product server can interact with the household appliance, and the product server can monitor the running condition of the household appliance by acquiring the running parameters uploaded by the household appliance and can also issue a control instruction to the household appliance to control the household appliance to execute corresponding operation.

The product server may be a server or a cluster of servers. In addition, the product server can be functionally divided into a server for monitoring the running state of the product and a server on the business level. For example, the server for monitoring the operating state of the product may be an M2M platform, which needs to maintain a long connection with the home appliance, and the home appliance reports the state change of the home appliance to the M2M platform. And the service end of the service layer can be an IOT platform, communicates with household appliances through short connection, and is responsible for account management, account binding, instruction issuing, push message issuing and the like.

In some embodiments, a user may manually open a product application installed in the operating system of the user's mobile device. In particular, if a user mobile device has a product client program installed, the user typically manually opens the product client program. In the case where the product application is not installed, the user may choose to manually download and install the product client program, or alternatively, manually open the product light application.

The product application may request an operating system of the user mobile device, and the operating system may control a Wi-Fi module of the user mobile device to scan each wireless network that can be currently connected to, to obtain a user-side wireless network list. The user-side wireless network list may comprise several wireless network identifications SSID and the physical addresses BSSID of the access points provided by each SSID.

It should be noted that, considering that some SSIDs may correspond to only one wireless network and some SSIDs may correspond to two wireless networks, the BSSID of the access point corresponding to each SSID in the user-side wireless network list may be one (BSSID of 2.4GHZ access point, or BSSID of 5GHZ access point), or two (BSSID of 2.4GHZ access point, and BSSID of 5GHZ access point).

It should be noted that the wireless network that can be scanned by the Wi-Fi module is often a wireless network connected to the Wi-Fi module in a standard supported by the Wi-Fi module.

If the Wi-Fi module supports connection to a wireless network through a 5GHZ access point and a 2.4GHZ access point, the list of the wireless networks scanned by the Wi-Fi module can include the total SSIDs in the surrounding environment and the total BSSIDs corresponding to each SSID. The user-side wireless network list is such a wireless network list.

If the Wi-Fi module only supports connection to the wireless network through the 2.4GHZ access point, the list of the wireless networks scanned by the Wi-Fi module may only include the SSID providing the 2.4GHZ access point in the surrounding environment and the BSSID of the 2.4GHZ access point provided by each SSID, and often may not include the SSID providing only the 5GHZ access point in the surrounding environment and the BSSID of the 5GHZ access point. The wireless network list at the product side obtained by scanning the Wi-Fi module of the household appliance is the wireless network list.

S102: and the product application judges whether the SSID appointed by the user for the household appliance distribution network provides a 2.4GHZ access point, if so, the step S104 is executed, and if not, the steps S106-S110 are executed.

In some embodiments, the manner of acquiring the SSID specified by the user for the distribution network of the home appliance by the product application may include:

the product application presents a distribution network interface to a user; the distribution network interface comprises all SSIDs in the user side wireless network list; and the product application determines the SSID selected by the user in the distribution network interface as the SSID appointed by the user for the household appliance distribution network.

In other embodiments, the obtaining the SSID specified by the user for the distribution network of the home appliance by the product application includes:

the product application is obtained from an operating system of the user mobile equipment, and the SSID of a wireless network to which a Wi-Fi module of the user mobile equipment is currently connected is obtained; and the product application takes the SSID acquired from the operating system as the SSID appointed by the user for the household appliance distribution network.

In addition, those skilled in the art may conceive of technical means for implementing product application to determine whether the SSID specified by the distribution network of the home appliance provides a 2.4GHZ access point.

For example, the product application may determine from the name of the SSID specified by the user whether to provide a 2.4GHZ access point. In practical applications, sometimes the SSID providing the 2.4GHZ access point will not include the wording "2.4 GHZ" in the nomenclature.

As another example, the product application may ask the user if their designated SSID provides a 2.4GHZ access point.

In addition to the above conventional technical means that may occur to those skilled in the art, the present disclosure also provides the following technical means:

in some embodiments, whether any SSID provides a 2.4GHZ access point may be determined by:

In some embodiments, whether any SSID supports a 2.4GHZ access point may be determined by:

S104: and sending the distribution network information containing the SSID to the household appliance by utilizing the communication connection between the user mobile equipment and the household appliance.

S106: and acquiring the BSSID of the access point provided by the SSID specified by the user from the user side wireless network list as a first BSSID.

S108: and determining a BSSID most similar to the first BSSID as a second BSSID in the range of each BSSID except the first BSSID in the user-side wireless network list.

S110: and sending the distribution network information containing the second BSSID to the household appliance by utilizing the communication connection between the user mobile equipment and the household appliance.

If the SSID specified by the user does not provide a 2.4GHZ access point and a 5GHZ access point is provided, it means that the router that created the SSID is necessarily dual-frequency and that it also creates other SSIDs that provide 2.4GHZ access points. Considering that two SSIDs created by the same router may not be similar enough and are not easy to match, the product application needs to send the distribution network information including the second BSSID to the home appliance product by using the similarity between the BSSIDs of two access points of the same router through steps S106-S110, according to the BSSID (first BSSID) of the 5GHZ access point provided by the SSID specified by the user, and matching the BSSID (second BSSID) of the 2.4GHZ access point provided by the same router in the user-side wireless network list.

The communication connection between the user mobile device and the household appliance can be an NFC connection or a Bluetooth connection, and can also be a connection between a hotspot created by a Wi-Fi module of the household appliance and the Wi-Fi module of the user mobile device.

S112: and the Wi-Fi module of the household appliance is connected to a wireless network through the 2.4GHZ access point according to the distribution network information.

In some embodiments, the distribution network information further includes: and the user allocates the appointed SSID for the household appliance distribution network. In this way, the notification module of the household appliance can send a distribution network success notification containing the SSID to a user.

In some embodiments, the distribution network information may further include: and the wireless network password corresponds to the SSID appointed by the household appliance distribution network. Some wireless networks need to be connected for verification, and in this case, the wireless network password needs to be sent to the household appliance.

In some embodiments, for each SSID in the user-side wireless network list other than the SSID specified by the user, if it is determined that the SSID supports a 2.4GHZ access point, determining how similar the BSSID of the 2.4GHZ access point is to the first BSSID; the BSSID of the 2.4GHZ access point with the largest similarity degree is used as the second BSSID.

That is to say, in the user-side wireless network list, only the SSID providing the 5GHZ access point may be excluded, and traversal may be performed in the BSSIDs corresponding to the remaining SSIDs providing the 2.4GHZ access points, so that the calculation amount may be saved, and the calculation efficiency may be improved.

In addition, the present disclosure also provides another specific technical concept, as follows:

Fig. 2 is a schematic flow chart of another method for connecting a home appliance to a wireless network according to the present disclosure, which includes the following steps:

s200: the product application obtains a user-side wireless network list.

S202: and the product application determines the BSSID of the access point provided by the SSID appointed by the home appliance distribution network by the user from the user side wireless network list as a first BSSID.

S204: and the product application determines the BSSID most similar to the first BSSID as a second BSSID within the range of the BSSIDs except the first BSSID in the user-side wireless network list.

S206: and the product application sends the distribution network information containing the first BSSID and the second BSSID to the household appliance by utilizing the communication connection between the user mobile equipment and the household appliance.

S208: and the Wi-Fi module of the household appliance product is connected to a wireless network through a 2.4GHZ access point according to the first BSSID or the second BSSID in the distribution network information.

Reference may be made to the foregoing description of the method flow shown in fig. 1 to understand the method flow shown in fig. 2, and details thereof are not repeated.

The main difference between the method flow shown in fig. 2 and the method flow shown in fig. 1 is that the product application does not need to determine whether the SSID specified by the user for the distribution network of the home appliance provides 2.4GHZ, but directly matches, in the user-side wireless network list, the BSSID (second BSSID) that is most similar to the BSSID (first SSID) of the access point provided by the SSID, in which case the product application cannot actually distinguish which of the first BSSID and the second BSSID is the BSSID of the 2.4GHZ access point of the target router of the user, but this is not important, and it is important that the BSSID of the 2.4GHZ access point of the target router is necessarily present in the first BSSID and the second BSSID. The product application only needs to send the first BSSID and the second BSSID to the household appliance.

In some embodiments, a Wi-Fi module of the home appliance may attempt to connect to a wireless network according to the first BSSID in the distribution network information; and if the connection fails, connecting to the wireless network through the 2.4GHZ access point according to the second BSSID in the distribution network information.

In some embodiments, the distribution network information may further include: and the user is the wireless network password corresponding to the SSID appointed by the household appliance distribution network.

In addition, the present disclosure provides a device for connecting a home appliance to a wireless network, where a Wi-Fi module of the home appliance only supports connection to the wireless network through a 2.4GHZ access point, a Wi-Fi module of a user mobile device supports connection to the wireless network through a 2.4GHZ access point and a 5GHZ access point, a product application is installed on the user mobile device, and the device is applied to the product application, and the device includes:

The utility model provides a device that household electrical appliances connect wireless network, the Wi-Fi module of household electrical appliances only supports to be connected to wireless network through 2.4GHZ access point, and the Wi-Fi module of user's mobile device supports to be connected to wireless network through 2.4GHZ access point and 5GHZ access point, install the product application on the user's mobile device, the device is applied to the Wi-Fi module of household electrical appliances, the device includes:

The utility model provides a device that household electrical appliances connect wireless network, the Wi-Fi module of household electrical appliances only supports to be connected to wireless network through 2.4GHZ access point, and the Wi-Fi module of user's mobile device supports to be connected to wireless network through 2.4GHZ access point and 5GHZ access point, install product application on the user's mobile device, the device is applied to product application, the device includes:

The present disclosure provides a home appliance in an embodiment of a method provided by the present disclosure.

The present disclosure provides a computer-readable storage medium having stored thereon a computer program which, when executed by a processor, implements the functionality of a product application in the method embodiments provided by the present disclosure.

The present disclosure provides a computer-readable storage medium on which a computer program is stored, which when executed by a processor implements the functionality of a Wi-Fi module of a home appliance in the method embodiments provided by the present disclosure.

Computer-readable media, including both non-transitory and non-transitory, removable and non-removable media, may implement information storage by any method or technology. The information may be computer readable instructions, data structures, modules of a program, or other data. Examples of computer storage media include, but are not limited to, phase change memory (PRAM), Static Random Access Memory (SRAM), Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM), other types of Random Access Memory (RAM), Read Only Memory (ROM), Electrically Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory (EEPROM), flash memory or other memory technology, compact disc read only memory (CD-ROM), Digital Versatile Discs (DVD) or other optical storage, magnetic cassettes, magnetic disk storage or other magnetic storage devices, or any other non-transmission medium that can be used to store information that can be accessed by a computing device. As defined herein, a computer readable medium does not include a transitory computer readable medium such as a modulated data signal and a carrier wave.

From the above description of the embodiments, it is clear to those skilled in the art that the embodiments of the present disclosure can be implemented by software plus necessary general hardware platform. Based on such understanding, the technical solutions of the embodiments of the present specification may be essentially or partially implemented in the form of a software product, which may be stored in a storage medium, such as a ROM/RAM, a magnetic disk, an optical disk, etc., and includes several instructions for enabling a computer device (which may be a personal computer, a server, or a network device, etc.) to execute the methods described in the embodiments or some parts of the embodiments of the present specification.

The systems, devices, modules or units illustrated in the above embodiments may be implemented by a computer chip or an entity, or by a product with certain functions. A typical implementation device is a computer, which may take the form of a personal computer, laptop computer, cellular telephone, camera phone, smart phone, personal digital assistant, media player, navigation device, email messaging device, game console, tablet computer, wearable device, or a combination of any of these devices.

The embodiments in the present specification are described in a progressive manner, and the same and similar parts among the embodiments are referred to each other, and each embodiment focuses on the differences from the other embodiments. In particular, for the apparatus embodiment, since it is substantially similar to the method embodiment, it is relatively simple to describe, and reference may be made to some descriptions of the method embodiment for relevant points. The above-described apparatus embodiments are merely illustrative, and the modules described as separate components may or may not be physically separate, and the functions of the modules may be implemented in one or more software and/or hardware when implementing the embodiments of the present disclosure. And part or all of the modules can be selected according to actual needs to achieve the purpose of the scheme of the embodiment. One of ordinary skill in the art can understand and implement it without inventive effort.

The foregoing is only a specific embodiment of the embodiments of the present disclosure, and it should be noted that, for those skilled in the art, a plurality of modifications and decorations can be made without departing from the principle of the embodiments of the present disclosure, and these modifications and decorations should also be regarded as the protection scope of the embodiments of the present disclosure.

Claims

1. A method for connecting an electric home appliance to a wireless network is characterized in that a Wi-Fi module of the electric home appliance only supports connection to the wireless network through a 2.4GHZ access point, a Wi-Fi module of a user mobile device supports connection to the wireless network through the 2.4GHZ access point and a 5GHZ access point, and a product application is installed on the user mobile device, and the method comprises the following steps:

2. The method of claim 1, wherein determining whether any SSID provides a 2.4GHZ access point is performed by:

3. The method of claim 1, wherein determining whether any SSID supports a 2.4GHZ access point is performed by:

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the distribution network information further comprises:

the user is the SSID appointed by the household appliance distribution network;

the method further comprises the following steps:

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the distribution network information further comprises:

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the product application obtaining the SSID specified by the user for the product distribution network comprises:

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the product application obtaining the SSID specified by the user for the product distribution network comprises:

9. The method of claim 1, wherein determining a BSSID that is most similar to the first BSSID within each BSSID range except for the first BSSID in the user-side wireless network list comprises:

10. A method for connecting a household appliance to a wireless network is characterized in that a Wi-Fi module of the household appliance only supports connection to the wireless network through a 2.4GHZ access point, a Wi-Fi module of a user mobile device supports connection to the wireless network through the 2.4GHZ access point and a 5GHZ access point, and a product application is installed on the user mobile device, and the method comprises the following steps:

11. The method of claim 10, wherein connecting the Wi-Fi module of the home appliance to a wireless network through a 2.4GHZ access point according to the first BSSID or the second BSSID in the distribution network information comprises:

12. The method of claim 10, wherein the distribution network information further comprises:

13. A method for connecting a household appliance to a wireless network is characterized in that a Wi-Fi module of the household appliance only supports connection to the wireless network through a 2.4GHZ access point, a Wi-Fi module of a user mobile device supports connection to the wireless network through the 2.4GHZ access point and a 5GHZ access point, a product application is installed on the user mobile device, and the method is applied to the product application and comprises the following steps:

14. A method for connecting a household appliance to a wireless network is characterized in that a Wi-Fi module of the household appliance only supports connection to the wireless network through a 2.4GHZ access point, a Wi-Fi module of a user mobile device supports connection to the wireless network through the 2.4GHZ access point and a 5GHZ access point, a product application is installed on the user mobile device, and the method is applied to the Wi-Fi module of the household appliance and comprises the following steps:

15. A method for connecting a household appliance to a wireless network is characterized in that a Wi-Fi module of the household appliance only supports connection to the wireless network through a 2.4GHZ access point, a Wi-Fi module of a user mobile device supports connection to the wireless network through the 2.4GHZ access point and a 5GHZ access point, a product application is installed on the user mobile device, and the method is applied to the product application and comprises the following steps:

16. A method for connecting a household appliance to a wireless network is characterized in that a Wi-Fi module of the household appliance only supports connection to the wireless network through a 2.4GHZ access point, a Wi-Fi module of a user mobile device supports connection to the wireless network through the 2.4GHZ access point and a 5GHZ access point, a product application is installed on the user mobile device, and the method is applied to the Wi-Fi module of the household appliance and comprises the following steps:

connecting to a wireless network through a 2.4GHZ access point according to a first BSSID or a second BSSID in the received distribution network information;

17. A device for connecting a household appliance to a wireless network is characterized in that a Wi-Fi module of the household appliance only supports connection to the wireless network through a 2.4GHZ access point, a Wi-Fi module of a user mobile device supports connection to the wireless network through the 2.4GHZ access point and a 5GHZ access point, a product application is installed on the user mobile device, and the device is applied to the product application and comprises:

18. The utility model provides a device that household electrical appliances connect wireless network which characterized in that, household electrical appliances's Wi-Fi module only supports to be connected to wireless network through 2.4GHZ access point, and user's mobile device's Wi-Fi module supports to be connected to wireless network through 2.4GHZ access point and 5GHZ access point, install the product application on the user's mobile device, the device is applied to household electrical appliances ' Wi-Fi module, the device includes:

19. A device for connecting a household appliance to a wireless network is characterized in that a Wi-Fi module of the household appliance only supports connection to the wireless network through a 2.4GHZ access point, a Wi-Fi module of a user mobile device supports connection to the wireless network through the 2.4GHZ access point and a 5GHZ access point, a product application is installed on the user mobile device, and the device is applied to the product application and comprises:

20. The utility model provides a device that household electrical appliances connect wireless network which characterized in that, household electrical appliances's Wi-Fi module only supports to be connected to wireless network through 2.4GHZ access point, and user's mobile device's Wi-Fi module supports to be connected to wireless network through 2.4GHZ access point and 5GHZ access point, install the product application on the user's mobile device, the device is applied to household electrical appliances ' Wi-Fi module, the device includes:

the connection unit is used for connecting to a wireless network through a 2.4GHZ access point according to the first BSSID or the second BSSID in the received distribution network information;

21. A household appliance as claimed in any one of the methods of claims 1 to 12.

22. A computer-readable storage medium, on which a computer program is stored which, when being executed by a processor, carries out the functions of the product application of the method according to any one of claims 1 to 12.

23. A computer-readable storage medium, having stored thereon a computer program which, when executed by a processor, implements the functionality of a Wi-Fi module of an appliance product according to any one of the methods of claims 1-12.