State change devices for switched electrical receptacles

A scene selection system comprising:

• a first electric load device;
• and
• a sensing circuit conductively couplable to a switched electric outlet, the sensing circuit including:
• input circuitry conductively couplable to the switched electric outlet;
• and
• a first load control device wirelessly communicatively coupled to the sensing circuit and operatively coupled to the first electric load device, wherein the first load control device includes:
• scene selection control circuitry to:
• wirelessly receive data indicative a transition of the switched electric outlet between a FIRST state and a SECOND state from the sensing circuit responsive to a determination by the sensing circuit that power has been removed from the switched electric outlet and a determination by the sensing circuit that a line disturbance has not occurred;
• determine a number of transitions of the switched electric outlet between the FIRST state and the SECOND state;
• responsive to determination of the number of transitions of the switched electric outlet within a prescribed amount of time:
• select, from operatively coupled memory circuitry, a scene that corresponds to the detected number of transitions of the switched electric outlet between the FIRST state and the SECOND state;
• determine an electric load device operating parameter for the first electric load device that corresponds to the selected scene;
• wirelessly transmit to a second load control device operatively couplable to a second electric load device the data indicative of the detected transition of the switched electric outlet between the FIRST state and the SECOND state;
• and
• cause an adjustment to the first electric load device operating parameter to correspond to the selected scene.

A non-transitory, machine-readable, storage device that includes instructions that when executed by scene selection control circuitry disposed in a first load control device causes the scene selection control circuitry to:

• receive from a sensing circuit coupled to a switched electric outlet, data indicative of a transition of a wall mountable control device between a FIRST state and a SECOND state via operatively coupled wireless communications interface circuitry, responsive to a determination by the sensing circuit that power has been removed from the switched electric outlet and a determination by the sensing circuit that a line disturbance has not occurred;
• determine a number of transitions of the wall mounted control device between the FIRST state and the SECOND state within a prescribed amount of time;
• responsive to determination of the number of transitions of the wall mounted control device within the prescribed amount of time:
• select a scene that corresponds to the number of transitions of the electrical load control device between the FIRST state and the SECOND state from operatively coupled memory circuitry;
• determine an electric load device operating parameter for an operatively coupled first electric load device that corresponds to the selected scene;
• cause a wireless transmission to a second load control device operatively couplable to a second electric load device of the data indicative of the received data indicative of the transition of the switched electric outlet between the FIRST state and the SECOND state;
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• cause an adjustment to the first electric load device operating parameter to correspond to the selected scene.

A scene selection method, comprising:

• receiving, by scene selection control circuitry disposed in a first load control device from sensing circuitry coupled to a switched electric outlet, data representative of a transition of the switched electric outlet between a FIRST state and a SECOND state, responsive to a determination by the sensing circuitry that power has been removed from the switched electric outlet and a determination by the sensing circuitry that a line disturbance has not occurred;
• wherein the sensing circuitry includes input interface circuitry conductively coupled to the switched electric outlet;
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• wherein the sensing circuitry is disposed remote from the first load control device;
• determining, by the scene selection control circuitry, a number of transitions of the switched electric outlet between the FIRST state and the SECOND state in a prescribed amount of time;
• responsive to detection, by the scene selection control circuitry, of the number of transitions of the switched electric outlet:
• selecting, by the scene selection control circuitry from operatively coupled memory circuitry, a scene that corresponds to the detected number of transitions of the switched electric outlet between the FIRST state and the SECOND state;
• determining, by the scene selection control circuitry, an electric load device operating parameter for an operatively coupled first electric load device that corresponds to the selected scene;
• wirelessly transmitting to a second load control device operatively couplable to a second electric load device the data indicative of the detected transition of the switched electric outlet between the FIRST state and the SECOND state;
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• causing, by the scene selection control circuitry, an adjustment to the first electric load device operating parameter to correspond to the selected scene.