A method and an apparatus for integrating IP devices into a HAVi network An Internet Protocol (IP) and HAVi compliant device acts as a controller in the HAVi network and communicates with at least on HAVi compliant device using HAVi application programming interfaces (APIs). A server on the controller communicates with at least one IP device having a proxy and an IP and HAVi API. The server includes at least one IP device device control module (IP device DCM) corresponding to the IP device. The IP device providing API support to translate and relay calls between the proxy and the server so that at least one HAVi compliant device can communicate with the IP device.