Abstract: A home appliance control apparatus and method. The apparatus includes a wireless phone signal reception unit, a search unit, a home appliance control signal generation unit, and a network interface unit. The wireless phone signal reception unit receives a wireless phone signal from the handset of a wireless telephone set, and extracts key information contained in the wireless phone signal. The search unit searches a home appliance control command mapped to the extracted key information. The home appliance control signal generation unit generates a home appliance control signal, including the found home appliance control command. The network interface unit transmits the generated home appliance control signal.