Abstract: Home electronic automation equipment to be controlled is selected from among several predefined groups of equipment, via capacitive sensors which are disposed next to one another on a control unit. A predefined group of equipment is selected by activating individual capacitive sensors. At least one additional group of equipment is selected via a predetermined sequence for activating several of the same capacitive sensors, of which at least two capacitive sensors are non-adjacent sensors.

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).