Abstract: Method of operating a device (60; 100) for controlling home automation equipment (1a, 2a, 2b, 2c, 3a, 3b, 5a) for orienting and/or displacing a moving product of a building, comprising a display screen (101), on which a portion of the screen is assigned to the display of a first graphic representation, such as an equipment icon (4, 5, 123, 125, 131), symbolizing this equipment, which method comprises a step for graphic adjustment of the first graphic representation so that it represents, at least approximately, the real degree of orientation and/or deployment of the moving product.

Abstract: Method of operating a home automation system comprising: at least one home automation equipment item of a building, the home automation equipment item being associated with a specific equipment control means, a device for controlling this home automation equipment item, comprising a display and control screen on which a portion of the screen is assigned to the display of a first graphic representation, associated with this equipment item, the control device being separate from the specific control means, which system comprises a step for setting at least one value of a parameter of the home automation equipment item involved in the definition of a scenario, this setting step being able to be both implemented by action on the specific control means so as to cause a phase for modification of the state of the home automation equipment item and by action on the control device so as to cause a phase for modification of the appearance of the first graphic representation of the home automation equipment item.

Abstract: A group of home automation equipment (111-114) to be controlled is selected from among several predefined groups of equipment, via sensitive zones (Z1, Z2, Z3, Z4) of a control unit (102), each of these sensitive zones being associated with a capacitive sensor and being disposed next to one another on the control unit. A predefined group of equipment associated with a given sensitive zone (Z1, Z2, Z3, Z4) is selected by activating the capacitive sensor of that sensitive zone. At least one additional group of equipment, different from the equipment corresponding to each sensitive zone, is selected via a predetermined sequence (Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4) for activating several capacitive sensors, of which at least two capacitive sensors correspond to two non-adjacent sensitive zones (Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4).