Abstract: This paper presents a new method to develop the interconnection and intercommunication control center, which usually plays a central server role in a digital home system. The proposed method adopts several novel technologies, such as bi-directional digital set-top-box, component technology, and design patterns. Moreover, this paper gives an intelligent component container programming model, and implements a central server for digital home system by utilizing such a model on Linux platform. Simulation experiments show that this method can promote software development efficiency, and provide a feasible solution for designing a central server of digital home.