A SELECTIVE AUTODISCOVERY SYSTEM
First Claim
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1. A control system comprising:
- a controller; and
one or more components connected to the controller; and
wherein;
information about some of the one or more components is autodiscoverable by the controller; and
information about some of the one or more components is manually input to the controller.
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Abstract
An autodiscovery system for configuration information about an HVAC system being provided to a controller or thermostat. Configurations or parameters may be autodiscovered from communicating equipment. Also, this equipment may be manually selected and set without affecting the autodiscovery status of the remaining equipment. There may also be non-communicating equipment that does not provide information to the thermostat. However, the thermostat may control the non-communicating equipment via an equipment interface module.
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20 Claims
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1. A control system comprising:
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a controller; and one or more components connected to the controller; and wherein; information about some of the one or more components is autodiscoverable by the controller; and information about some of the one or more components is manually input to the controller. - View Dependent Claims (2)
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3. An HVAC control system comprising:
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a thermostat; one or more communicating components connected to the thermostat; a component interface module connected to the thermostat; and one or more non-communicating components connected to the component interface module. - View Dependent Claims (4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. A method for autodiscovery comprising:
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autodiscovery of configuration information of some of one or more HVAC components for a controller; and manually entering configuration information of some of the one or more HVAC components for the controller while maintaining the autodiscovery of configuration information of some of the one or more HVAC components. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12)
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13. An autodiscovery system comprising:
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a controller; and at least two communicating apparatus; and wherein; the controller may autodiscover the at least two communicating apparatus; and at least one apparatus of the at least two communicating apparatus may be manually set while the remaining communicating apparatus may remain autodiscovered. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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