Method of commanding wireless devices

A method of commanding a first wireless communicating device from a second wireless communicating device, each of said first and second wireless communicating devices operating with respective networking protocol stacks comprising same MAC and PHY protocol layers and having different command sets, and said second wireless communicating device having a main portion and a remote control portion, the method comprising the following steps performed by the main portion of the second wireless communicating device:

• joining a wireless communication network to which the first communicating device is connected, using procedures of the protocol stack of the first wireless communicating device, thereby obtaining network information for constructing commands for the second wireless communicating device, and
• making the network information available for the remote control portion,
• the method further comprising the following steps performed by the remote control portion of the second wireless communicating device:
• retrieving the network information from the main portion of the second wireless communicating device,
• constructing a command message for the first wireless communicating device using a format of the command messages of the protocol stack of the first wireless communicating device and using the retrieved network information, and
• sending the command message to the first wireless communicating device, using the MAC and PHY layers.