With the improvement of socio-economic level, people's demands of home-living quality become more and more. At the same time, with embedded technology developing, as well as the popularity of mobile communications equipment, the conditions to remote control home appliances have gradually matured. In order to achieve the purpose of mobile remote control household appliances, it has proposed a kind of the design of embedded home gateway system based on ARM and linux, with 32-bit ARM9S3C2440 microprocessor as the core, Equipped with text messages module, since the infrared learning modules, and wireless Zigbee communication module. Realizing a text receiving, infrared signals, storage and sending. After testing and analysis, it proves to achieve the expectation and be feasible for the system．