Abstract: A method of controlling a home appliance connected to the Internet via a gateway and an appliance control server of an appliance control cloud. The appliance executes control commands for operating the appliance received from the Internet via the gateway only if the commands are received from the appliance control cloud. A control command supply server of a control command supply cloud is connected to the home appliance control cloud via the Internet, and has at least one repository storing control instruction sets to operate the appliance. The method includes authenticating a request for remote control of the appliance received from the control command supply server via the Internet, and, responsive to positive authentication, forwarding control commands from the control command supply server to the appliance. The control commands are part of a set of instructions from the repository selected based on input received by a user terminal device.