User Interface Based on System-State Information

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium for use in conjunction with a portable electronic device, the computer-readable storage medium storing a program module that, when executed by the portable electronic device, causes the portable electronic device to display a user interface by performing one or more operations comprising:

• receiving, via an interface circuit in the portable electronic device, system-state information, associated with an electronic device, that specifies current device states of a group of two or more entertainment devices, wherein the system-state information includes measured device-state information for at least one of the two or more entertainment devices;
• selecting, based on the system-state information, a predefined or predetermined user interface that includes one or more icons, one or more virtual command icons or both, which is associated with the current state and one or more related states of at least an entertainment device in the group of entertainment devices that are related to the current state in a state diagram by corresponding operations that transition the entertainment device from the current state to the one or more related states;
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• displaying the user interface by selectively illuminating the one or more icons using one or more light sources in the portable electronic device, by presenting the one or more virtual command icons on the touch-sensitive display or both.

A method for displaying a user interface, wherein the method comprises:

• by a portable electronic device:
• receiving, via an interface circuit in the portable electronic device, system-state information, associated with an electronic device, that specifies current device states of a group of two or more entertainment devices, wherein the system-state information includes measured device-state information for at least one of the two or more entertainment devices;
• selecting, based on the system-state information, a predefined or predetermined user interface that includes one or more icons, one or more virtual command icons or both, which is associated with the current state and one or more related states of at least an entertainment device in the group of entertainment devices that are related to the current state in a state diagram by corresponding operations that transition the entertainment device from the current state to the one or more related states;
• and
• displaying the user interface by selectively illuminating the one or more icons using one or more light sources in the portable electronic device, by presenting the one or more virtual command icons on the touch-sensitive display or both.