Appliance control system and server

A device control system comprising:

• a home electric appliance;
• a control terminal to remotely control the home electric appliance;
• a server to distribute software, the server being capable of network communication with the control terminal;
• and
• a network communication device communicable with the home electric appliance, and operable based on the software acquired from the server by communicating with the server,
• wherein
• the server includes a server storage to store multiple different pieces of the software for the network communication device, the multiple different pieces of software having a one-to-one relation with different types of a plurality of home electric appliances including the home electric appliance, and, based on home appliance information, network communication device identification information, and usage condition information of the home electric appliance, the server selects the software for the network communication device corresponding to the home electric appliance from among the multiple pieces of software stored in the server storage, and transmits the software to the network communication device, the home appliance information being information with which the home electric appliance is identifiable, the network communication device identification information being information with which the network communication device is uniquely identifiable, the usage condition information being at least one of information regarding the area where the home electric appliance, the network communication device, and the control terminal are used, information regarding the language used by the user of the home electric appliance, or information regarding whether there is a function specific to the particular home electric appliance, and
• the network communication device updates the software for the network communication device stored in the network communication device with the software for the network communication device transmitted from the server.