Lighting control and status queries

A computer program product comprising code embodied on at least one computer-readable storage medium and configured so as when executed on a lighting controller to perform operations of:

• storing or buffering two or more lighting control frames of a lighting control protocol for controlling a light emission of at least one lighting device over a lighting network, the lighting control frames being arranged to be transmitted over the lighting network one-after-another in a temporal sequence;
• receiving at least one status query of a device management protocol for querying a status of at least one lighting device over the lighting network;
• transmitting ones of the lighting control frames over the lighting network according to said sequence;
• automatically detecting when one of the lighting control frames is redundant with respect to another of the lighting control frames within a predetermined number of frames in said sequence;
• and
• in response to said detection, automatically transmitting the status query in place of the redundant lighting control frame in said sequence.

A method comprising:

• storing or buffering two or more lighting control frames of a lighting control protocol for controlling a light emission of at least one lighting device over a lighting network, the lighting control frames being arranged to be transmitted over the lighting network one-after-another in a temporal sequence;
• receiving at least one status query of a device management protocol for querying a status of at least one lighting device over the lighting network;
• transmitting ones of the lighting control frames over the lighting network according to said sequence;
• automatically detecting when one of the lighting control frames is redundant with respect to another of the lighting control frames within a predetermined number of frames in said sequence;
• and
• in response to said detection, automatically transmitting the status query in place of the redundant lighting control frame in said sequence.