Abstract: A method controls a domestic appliance by a user. The method includes the steps of detecting a voice command of the user; determining whether the user is in a predefined first region around the control device; determining whether the control device is located in a predefined second region around the domestic appliance; and controlling the domestic appliance as a function of the voice command.

Abstract: In a method for operating a household appliance having a user interface for operation of the household appliance by a plurality of users, a number of predetermined usage actions of a particular user of the plurality of users when operating the household appliance is registered in a user-specific manner, and a user-specific control surface is provided by way of the user interface for the particular user on the basis of the usage actions of the particular user as registered in a user-specific manner.

Abstract: In a method for operating a household appliance having a user interface for operation of the household appliance by a plurality of users, a number of predetermined usage actions of a particular user of the plurality of users when operating the household appliance is registered in a user-specific manner, and a user-specific control surface is provided by way of the user interface for the particular user on the basis of the usage actions of the particular user as registered in a user-specific manner.

Abstract: An electrical appliance having at least one electrical load, and a digital control system managing flows of electric current of supply of the at least one electrical load, wherein the digital control system of the electrical appliance transmits information to an external control device, wherein said information comprises first information regarding authorization or non-authorization for an interruption of the supply of electric voltage to the electrical appliance by the external control device, the digital control system of the electrical appliance generating the first information of its own operating state.

Abstract: A control device for an electrical appliance operatively set between an electrical supply line of the electrical appliance and a corresponding alternating current (AC) voltage supply source, the control device having a digital control system that encodes information via controlled interruptions of the AC voltage of supply of the electrical appliance and has a first controllable switch managing in an ON-OFF mode the AC voltage from the supply source to the electrical appliance, wherein the encoding comprises carrying out a coding of information as sequences of interruptions having fixed duration of the AC voltage of supply of the electrical appliance, said interruptions having fixed duration being separated by a corresponding interval having variable duration, wherein the information to be transmitted is associated to the variable duration of the interval and the fixed duration of the interruptions is such as not to perturb operation of the electrical appliance.

Abstract: An electrical appliance having at least one electrical load, and a digital control system managing flows of electric current of supply of the at least one electrical load, wherein the digital control system of the electrical appliance transmits information to an external control device, wherein said information comprises first information regarding authorization or non-authorization for an interruption of the supply of electric voltage to the electrical appliance by the external control device, the digital control system of the electrical appliance generating the first information of its own operating state.