Selective autodiscovery system
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1. An autodiscovery system for an HVAC system comprising:
- a controller; and
at least two communicating HVAC apparatus;
a first link of communication between the controller and each of the at least two communicating HVAC apparatus for communicating configuration information from each of the at least two communicating HVAC apparatus to the controller; and
a second link of communication between the controller and each of the at least two communicating HVAC apparatus for communicating control information from the controller to each of the at least two communicating HVAC apparatus; and
wherein;
the controller may autodiscover the at least two communicating HVAC apparatus;
at least one apparatus of the at least two communicating HVAC apparatus may be manually set while the remaining communicating apparatus may remain autodiscovered; and
the controller is a thermostat.
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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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12 Claims
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1. An autodiscovery system for an HVAC system comprising:
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a controller; and at least two communicating HVAC apparatus; a first link of communication between the controller and each of the at least two communicating HVAC apparatus for communicating configuration information from each of the at least two communicating HVAC apparatus to the controller; and a second link of communication between the controller and each of the at least two communicating HVAC apparatus for communicating control information from the controller to each of the at least two communicating HVAC apparatus; and wherein; the controller may autodiscover the at least two communicating HVAC apparatus; at least one apparatus of the at least two communicating HVAC apparatus may be manually set while the remaining communicating apparatus may remain autodiscovered; and the controller is a thermostat. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. An autodiscovery system for an HVAC system comprising:
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a controller; and at least one communicating HVAC apparatus; at least one non-communicating HVAC apparatus; a first link of communication between the controller and the at least one communicating HVAC apparatus for communicating configuration information; a second link of communication between the controller and the at least one communicating HVAC apparatus for communicating control information; an equipment interface module having an input connected to an output of the controller and having an output connected to an input of the at least one non-communicating apparatus for communicating control information between the controller and the non-communicating apparatus; and wherein; the controller may autodiscover one or more configuration information about the at least one communicating HVAC apparatus; an autodiscovered parameter may be manually overridden without changing other autodiscovered parameters; and the controller is a thermostat.
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