Wireless provisioning and configuring of hardware elements of a home automation system

A method for provisioning and/or configuring hardware elements of a home automation system, comprising:

• scanning, by a first WPAN-discoverable hardware element of the home automation system, on a wireless personal area network (WPAN) to discover a second WPAN-discoverable hardware element of the home automation system that is not accessible on an in-home local area network (LAN) used by the home automation system;
• retrieving, by the first WPAN-discoverable hardware element, network credentials for the in-home LAN from a storage device of the first WPAN-discoverable hardware element;
• and
• provisioning a second WPAN-discoverable hardware element by transferring the network credentials from the first WPAN-discoverable hardware element to the second WPAN-discoverable hardware element over the WPAN.

A method for provisioning and/or configuring hardware elements of a home automation system, comprising:

• scanning, by a second WPAN-discoverable hardware element of the home automation system, on a wireless personal area network (WPAN) to discover a third WPAN-discoverable hardware element of the home automation system that is not accessible on an in-home local area network (LAN) used by the home automation system;
• retrieving, by the second WPAN-discoverable hardware element over the in-home LAN, network credentials for the in-home LAN from a first WPAN-discoverable hardware element of the home automation system that maintains the credentials in a storage device;
• and
• provisioning the third WPAN-discoverable hardware element by transferring the network credentials from the second WPAN-discoverable hardware element to the third WPAN-discoverable hardware element over the WPAN.

A method for provisioning and/or configuring hardware elements of a home automation system, comprising:

• scanning, by a mobile application (app) executing on a mobile device or remote control on a wireless personal area network (WPAN), to discover a second WPAN-discoverable hardware element of the home automation system that is not accessible on an in-home local area network (LAN) used by the home automation system;
• retrieving, by the mobile app over the in-home LAN, network credentials for the in-home LAN from a first WPAN-discoverable hardware element of the home automation system that maintains the network credentials in a storage device;
• and
• provisioning the second WPAN-discoverable hardware element by transferring the network credentials from the mobile app to the second WPAN-discoverable hardware element over the WPAN.