Home appliance, method of controlling the same, and method of controlling mobile device communicating with home appliance

    公开(公告)号:US12200811B2

    公开(公告)日:2025-01-14

    申请号:US17836639

    申请日:2022-06-09

    Abstract: A method of controlling a home appliance, the method including, by a home appliance: outputting, via Bluetooth low energy (BLE) advertising, a BLE advertising packet including service set identifier (SSID)-related information related to an SSID of a software enabled access point (Soft AP) of the home appliance in a new product state in which the home appliance has not been registered in a server; outputting a Wi-Fi beacon of the Soft AP; in response to a connection request for the Soft AP received from a mobile device after outputting the Wi-Fi beacon, establishing a Wi-Fi communication connection between the mobile device and the Soft AP; receiving, from the mobile device via the Wi-Fi communication connection, a control signal related to an initial setting operation of registering the home appliance in the server; and performing the initial setting operation, based on the received control signal.

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