Controller interface with interview programming
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1. A method of programming a schedule of an HVAC controller having a user interface, the schedule having a number of HVAC schedule parameters, the method comprising the steps of:
- asking two or more interview questions of a user via the user interface, each of the two or more interview questions eliciting a numerical time and/or a numerical temperature as a response;
accepting one or more user responses from the user via the user interface, in a non-graphical form, to the two or more interview questions; and
creating and/or modifying one or more of the HVAC schedule parameters based on the user responses provided by the user interface.
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Abstract
A controller and a method of programming a schedule of a controller having a user interface, the schedule having a number of schedule parameters, the method including the steps of: providing one or more interview questions to a user via the user interface; accepting one or more user responses to the one or more interview questions from the user via the user interface; and modifying one or more of the schedule parameters based on the user responses provided by the user interface.
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1. A method of programming a schedule of an HVAC controller having a user interface, the schedule having a number of HVAC schedule parameters, the method comprising the steps of:
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asking two or more interview questions of a user via the user interface, each of the two or more interview questions eliciting a numerical time and/or a numerical temperature as a response; accepting one or more user responses from the user via the user interface, in a non-graphical form, to the two or more interview questions; and creating and/or modifying one or more of the HVAC schedule parameters based on the user responses provided by the user interface. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. An HVAC controller comprising:
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a programmable schedule, the schedule having a number of HVAC schedule parameters; and a user interface, adapted and configured to ask two or more interview questions of a user, and to accept a numerical value for each of at least two of the two or more interview questions as user responses, said at least two of the two or more interview questions including at least one interview question relating to a comfort temperature level of the user, and at least one different question relating to a schedule of the user; wherein, one or more of the schedule parameters are modified based on the user responses. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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21. An HVAC controller comprising:
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schedule means for providing a programmable schedule, the programmable schedule having a number of HVAC schedule parameters; and user interface means adapted and configured to ask two or more interview questions of a user, and to accept one or more user responses to each of the two or more interview questions from the user, said two or more interview questions including at least one interview question eliciting a discrete numerical value from the user relating to the user'"'"'s comfort level and/or schedule; wherein, the controller modifies one or more of the schedule parameters based on the user responses provided by the user interface.
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22. A method of programming a schedule of an HVAC controller having a user interface, the schedule having a number of HVAC schedule parameters, the method comprising the steps of:
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asking one or more interview questions a user via the user interface, said one or more interview questions including at least one interview question relating to the user'"'"'s comfort level and/or schedule; accepting one or more discrete numerical values as user responses to the one or more interview questions from the user via the user interface; translating the one or more discrete numerical values to form a translated response including one or more setpoints; and modifying one or more of the schedule parameters based on the translated response. - View Dependent Claims (23, 24, 25, 26, 27)
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28. An HVAC controller comprising:
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a programmable schedule, the schedule having a number of HVAC schedule parameters; a user interface, adapted and configured to ask one or more interview questions of a user, and to accept one or more discrete numerical values as user responses to each of at least one of the one or more interview questions from the user, said one or more interview questions including at least one interview question relating to the user'"'"'s comfort level and/or schedule; and a translator, adapted and configured to translate the one or more discrete numerical values of the user responses to form a translated response; wherein, the number of schedule parameters are modified based on the translated response. - View Dependent Claims (29, 30, 31, 32)
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33. A method of programming a schedule of an HVAC controller having a user interface, the schedule having a number of HVAC schedule parameters, the method comprising the steps of:
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sequentially posing a number of queries to a user via the user interface, at least one of said queries relating to the user'"'"'s comfort and at least another one of the queries related to a user'"'"'s schedule; and accepting user responses to at least selected queries, the sequence of queries adapted to collect sufficient information from the user responses to generate at least a major portion of the schedule parameters. - View Dependent Claims (34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40)
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