Processing signals from a remote control device within a home audiovisual
network comprising a plurality of nodes for interconnecting a plurality
of terminals, wherein, within the network, at least two types of
remote-control signals are used, including first type remote-control
signals specific to the nodes and sent by at least one first remote
control device associated with the nodes, and second type remote-control
signals specific to the terminals and sent by at least one second remote
control device associated with at least one of said terminals. Each node
of the network, called a local node, when receiving a first
remote-control signal, performs analysis of the type of the received
first remote-control signal, if the type of the received first
remote-control signal is determined to be one of the first type
remote-control signals, processing the signal and performing at least one
function in response to the received first remote-control signal, if the
type of the received first remote-control signal is determined to be one
of the second type remote-control signals, transparently sending said
received second type remote-control signal to a target node if the target
node, to which a target terminal is connected, has been determined
beforehand, said target terminal being connected with said target node,
through at least one predetermined link between the target node and the
target terminal, and if no target node has been determined beforehand,
ignoring said received second type remote-control signal.