Systems and methods for activity-based control of consumer electronics

A system for activity-based control of multiple consumer electronic devices independent of a state of the consumer electronic devices, comprising:

• a transition initialization module that identifies consumer electronic device configurations for all useful user experiences and defines the transition commands between user experiences;
• wherein a transition command includes a pre-defined sequence of consumer electronic device commands that can be transmitted to transition the consumer electronic devices from one user experience to another;
• a current node module that stores a node of a finite state machine representative of a current consumer electronic device configuration;
• and
• a transition command module that includes transition commands generated by the transition initialization module.

A method for activity-based control of multiple consumer electronic devices independent of a state of the consumer electronic devices, comprising:

• (a) receiving a user input for an experience;
• (b) determining the commands necessary to bring the consumer electronic devices into a suitable state for the user-requested experience by following the transition in a finite state machine from the current state to the state representing the user-requested experience;
• and
• (c) transmitting the transition command to the consumer electronic devices.